Example sentences of "fact [conj] these [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 We now reveal that the concepts of irreducibility and primeness do coincide in Z. It is , however , precisely because of the fact that these concepts do not coincide in every kind of number system we shall meet ( see exercise 6 ) that the celebrated conjecture of Fermat remains unproven to this day ( See Section 3.5 . )
2 The fact that these emotions exist in industrial and other enterprises and that the ego finds ways of defending against bad experiences is not at issue ; what is more difficult to establish is the complex way in which these feelings are dealt with .
3 The family member will continue to do things for the primary sufferer ( providing food and shelter and other necessities of life , tidying up the messes , telling lies or half-truths to " cover up " , paying off debts or fines , providing bail , apologising on his or her behalf and generally doing everything possible to protect the primary sufferer from the consequences of his or her disease ) regardless of the demonstrable fact that these actions do not help the sufferer to get into recovery .
4 Sir Antony commented : ‘ The fact that these actions have not prevented the substantial fall in profitability over the same period is a reflection of the length and severity of the recession . ’
5 The fact that these things happen over time in the same place matters , even if this study does not draw on Giddens ' ( 1981 ) notion of structuration to address this sort of question .
6 A spokesman for the Derry Baha'is said : ‘ The fact that these documents have been brought into the open is very important .
7 But , more important than their differences for our purposes is the fact that these movements shared many basic principles and common objectives .
8 Essentially , we were exploring subjective experiences of work and pointing to the fact that these experiences become objective reality .
9 Cognitive psychologists must make a greater effort to understand cognition as it occurs in the ordinary environment … pay more attention to the details of the real world in which perceivers and thinkers live … come to terms with the sophistication and complexity of the cognitive skills that people are really capable of acquiring , and with the fact that these skills undergo systematic development .
10 It is a sad fact that these ponies have to be born at all , but hundreds are , every year , bred on our moorlands and then rounded up during autumn to be sold for a pittance at the sale .
11 The fact that these efforts go unrecognised has been a major element in the ‘ failure ’ labels attached to many deaf schoolchildren .
12 Such a concern is explained by the fact that these countries had repeatedly demonstrated their willingness to go to enormous lengths ( in effect taxing imports of capital , encouraging exports of capital and , even in the case of Japan , organizing plans for importing huge stockpiles of raw materials ) in order to prevent an upward movement of their currencies .
13 So in a way I welcome the fact that these figures bear a little more relationship to the real situation er than last year 's did , but we 're still a long way short of knowing exactly what 's going on .
14 More amazing is the fact that these towns do n't have the benefit of City of Culture-style licensing laws , yet are still buzzing .
15 The NZRFU must also accept the fact that these days touring teams such as Ireland will not fill major grounds , and that 30,000 — which was the top crowd for the entire tour — should be regarded as the benchmark .
16 In 1694 Jean Gailhard wrote a pamphlet urging that the annual commemoration of 30 January and 29 May be stopped , arguing that the sermons delivered on that day helped perpetuate the country 's political divisions , though it is clear that what he objected to was the fact that these days helped promote a Tory vision of government in Church and State , since he himself did not believe anything done during the reigns of Charles I or Charles II was worth commemorating .
17 RCD candidates therefore stood and were returned for all nine constituencies in the Oct. 13 by-elections , despite the fact that these seats had been vacated specifically to induce the opposition to end the ruling party 's monopoly of all 141 National Assembly seats .
18 The most important thing , of course , is the fact that these features change .
19 Gambian children , however , form a more heterogeneous group with a wider spread of results ( Fig 4 ) , despite the fact that these children consumed a standard breakfast , compared with the British children who exhibited a wide range of individual preferences for breakfast foods .
20 Gelada sexual dimorphism is only a part of a larger adaptive complex based on the fact that these baboons live in small groups in savanna grasslands subsisting on a diet of vegetable matter , presumably much as our hominid ancestors did .
21 To Freud it was , therefore , a surprising fact that these patients did not dream of being cured of their neurosis , but returned to the original painful situation .
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