Example sentences of "fact that [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , to revert to the question of the 11+ , the fact that girls as a group consistently did better than boys did not result in more grammar school places for girls . |
| 2 | The fact that responsibility for the juvenile labour exchange system was divided forced LEAs to choose between either administering their own scheme ( with Board of Education approval ) , or accepting the Board of Trade JAC . |
| 3 | To begin with , it is a sad but true fact that society as a whole does not welcome the widow , however sorry they feel for her . |
| 4 | The inhibitory CS is supposed to owe some of its behavioural effects to the fact that activity in the ‘ no-US centre ’ inhibits that in the ‘ US centre ’ . |
| 5 | If this argument has any substance , it lies in the fact that service on an involuntary agent attracts no legal as opposed to practical requirement that there be any supplemental transmission of information to the defendant abroad , whereas supplemental transmission of the actual documents served is required to be effected by the huissier initiating notification au parquet and by a Secretary of State on whom documents are served under the similar United States practice . |
| 6 | incorrect or ineffective decisions may be made , due to the fact that members of a committee are unfamiliar with the deeper aspects of issues under discussion . |
| 7 | For example , the concentration of crime in the lower social class , which was the starting point for all the main sociological theories , could be explained simply by the fact that members of the lower social class were more likely to be selected for labelling . |
| 8 | This stems from the fact that members of the House of Lords make up the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . |
| 9 | 683 were whether ( a ) the fact that the Bar Council , which was the accusatorial body , formed part of the Senate , which was the judicial body , meant that fair-minded people would regard the proceedings of the Senate 's disciplinary tribunal as tainted with the appearance of bias and ( b ) the fact that members of the same profession were both the accusers and the majority of the disciplinary tribunal could give rise to the same objection . |
| 10 | As mortgages tend to be for a long term and in view of the fact that 75% of the amount originally borrowed is still outstanding it is reasonable to classify this as a long-term liability . |
| 11 | Nor did any intuition , any extra sense , alert him to the fact that part of the case he was quietly and imperceptibly building up inside him was going up in smoke . |
| 12 | It subsequently emerged that one reason for his decision was that he had taken into account the fact that publicity about the complaint would be politically damaging for the Government at that time . |
| 13 | For example , M Thompson et al. ( 1986 ) have highlighted the fact that estimates of the latter vary by a factor of 67 ! |
| 14 | Comfort may be taken from the fact that elements of the system have been working successfully in many LEAs . |
| 15 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 16 | The fact that timing of the first births is closely related to age at first marriage or union is documented in Fig 1 . |
| 17 | The importance of social class membership in providing access to resources , including income , was demonstrated by the fact that differences between the propensity of those in different classes to retire early increased with distance from pension age . |
| 18 | Rather , it is the very fact that criticism of the government 's anti-Semitic posturing finds its way into public discussion that supposedly jeopardises the country 's ‘ return to Europe ’ . |
| 19 | So this external factor offsets the fact that performance in the evening due to the body clock might be deteriorating . |
| 20 | Something of the difference between working for Dean or Balcon and for John Maxwell can be gleaned from the fact that denizens of the latter referred to BIP 's script department as the Borstal . |
| 21 | The fact that researchers in the psychology of driving have not stressed the potential effects of such arousal is particularly surprising given that feelings of risk are often considered to be one of the most important variables in the control of normal driving . |
| 22 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 23 | Just on item eight and item nine , Lord Mayor , Community Health N H S Trust and Health N H S Trust , to report the fact that dispensations from the Department of the Environment have rec been received for Councillors and , enabling them to take part in the debate but er not to vote . |
| 24 | Because of rotation and the fact that promotion of a subordinate is not threatening to the status of a superordinate , internal managerial competition is far less than in the Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 25 | Moreover , the fact that Parliament by the Act of 1976 deliberately refrained from legislating for cases such as these , where the child was born before the enactment of the Act of 1976 , does not in any way support the view that these cases should be left for future legislation . |
| 26 | This conclusion is supported by the fact that changes in the fossil record , even rather rapid ones like the increase in human brain size in the last four million years , were slower by a factor of 1,000 than the rate at which changes can be produced by artificial selection in laboratory populations or domestic animals . |
| 27 | He cites as evidence the fact that changes in the heavens were first noted , recorded and discussed by Western astronomers after the proposal of the Copernican theory . |
| 28 | In calculating the expenses of production of a commodity we must take account of the fact that changes in the amounts produced are likely , even when there is no new invention , to be accompanied by changes in the relative quantities of its several factors of production . |
| 29 | Yet the NFA was slow to report Stotler Funds ' inadequacies , including the fact that money from the mutual funds was being used to buy the commercial paper of the failing parent firm . |
| 30 | The growing number of men , women and children with AIDS and the fact that people with the disease now survive longer , have made ever more pressing demands on our Home Care teams . |