Example sentences of "fact that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a cool mockery in his deep voice , and she turned to glare at him , hating him for the fact that he seemed to be deriving amusement from her discomfort . |
| 2 | Neale was rated 9,9 by his team members , a fact that he acknowledges with appropriate diffidence . |
| 3 | ‘ Crack ? ’ she queried , interested , despite the fact that he sounded like a damned travel guide . |
| 4 | The fact that he lived with someone who slept by day , and the fact that his own life , centred around The Bar , was more or less nocturnal , made it seem quite normal to Boy to always consider the life of the city around him from the perspective of the night . |
| 5 | The fact that he died in the following April does not seem to have put anyone off or taken away their faith in Pau 's salutariness . |
| 6 | Likely it was because she had recognised in him from the first the trait matching her own : the ability to make money , for especially was she enamoured of his Sunday second-hand car-sales and of the fact that he insisted on working on that day and handling this side of the business himself . |
| 7 | Belfast 's European champion produced a quite stunning performance which totally belied his relative immaturity and made a mockery of the fact that he went into this fight with no world rating of any description . |
| 8 | To my fourteen-year-old mind , his cleanliness was connected in some mysterious way to the fact that he went to public school and liked classical music . |
| 9 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 10 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 11 | The original recipients of Hilton 's text , however , as is clear from the very fact that he wrote for them in the vernacular , were not interested in comparative academic study , but in particular guidance which would enable them to fully integrate their religious faith in their lives . |
| 12 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 13 | ‘ Is it the fact that he rambles on that bores you , or the fact that you do n't want to talk about what life 's about ? ’ |
| 14 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 15 | For an actor , admission of homosexuality was tantamount to professional suicide , so it was necessary for Clift to hide the fact that he fell in love with men . |
| 16 | In this way Foucault could be said to be returning to Marx in removing the subject from the centre of history , were it not for the fact that he dispenses with the consolations of Marx 's historicism also . |
| 17 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 18 | That was something else she found maddening , the fact that he towered over her . |
| 19 | To Churchill and other Allied leaders de Gaulle claimed to speak for France : his subsequent career as Liberator , Father-figure and statesman owed much to the fact that he spoke to the French — when all seemed lost . |
| 20 | Is he under a fiduciary obligation to disclose to shareholders with whom he intends to trade , the fact that he holds inside information ? |
| 21 | There are only oblique references to the fact that he refused to ‘ get involved ’ ( in what ? the peace or civil rights movement ? ) in the States . |
| 22 | When Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister , in 1937 , he had as the Foreign Secretary , Anthony Eden , a very able minister of considerable repute , which fact probably accounted for the fact that he remained as Foreign Secretary despite the clear differences of opinion that became apparent between them . |
| 23 | The fact that he appeared for every show wearing an immaculate double-breasted blue suit with a carnation in his lapel only served to further that reputation . |
| 24 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 25 | The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all . |
| 26 | The only good things you can say about some of these new series , like Matthew Carter 's Cochin in fact that he did for Linotype are these other weights . |
| 27 | Reds boss Frankie Parkes made no secret of the fact that he disagreed with the man in black . |
| 28 | Nobody in the SDLP criticised Currie for his espousal of Thatcherism or for the fact that he stood against and defeated a Labour candidate to get into the Dail . |
| 29 | Apart from the fact that he moved among many of the leading artists of the day such as John Landseer father of Sir Edwin Landseer , Robert Hills ( 1769–1844 ) one of the founders of the Society of Painters in Water colours , and John Glover ( 1769–1844 ) , we know little of his time there . |
| 30 | However , Proust 's real originality , on this point , springs from the fact that he gave to the phenomenon of involuntary memory an aesthetic application . |