Example sentences of "the fact that she was " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 2 | Her distinctive combination of qualities — literary talent and experience of public service — combined with the fact that she was a woman , made her a natural . |
| 3 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 4 | More specifically , an analysis of Scottish kingship , and of the particular reasons for its strength , enables us to discard the lingering idea that Mary 's failure was predetermined by the fact that she was a woman — and worse and more pathetic , a young woman . |
| 5 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 6 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 7 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 8 | This was some compensation for the fact that she was almost certainly no better at the piano . |
| 9 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 10 | This probably accounted for the fact that she was not on duty at the theatre as much as she should have been and was very moody when she was there . |
| 11 | The fact that she was such an eccentric character meant that only those with strong personalities survived . |
| 12 | Yanto grudgingly admitted to himself that she was also different by the fact that she was still a virgin . |
| 13 | Robina is distracted by the fact that she was never allowed to watch horror movies when she was Brian 's age . |
| 14 | Only the fact that she was so happy at Pinehurst had persuaded them to leave her there so long . |
| 15 | Then she leaned against it , realising that in spite of the fact that she was still wearing her ski jacket in the warm flat , she was shivering again . |
| 16 | Her accent reminded Paula of Louise — perhaps that was why she warmed to her in spite of the fact that she was so awe-inspiring . |
| 17 | It is not so much the fact that she was consequently unable to vote for her father 's party , or , any other party for that matter , that I find so diverting as the reason that The Daily Telegraph gives for her binning her poll application material . |
| 18 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 19 | The fact that she was unavailable ? |
| 20 | At least , she thought , she had made clear to Stephen the fact that she was not happy living in his mother 's shadow . |
| 21 | He relaxed her and told her that he quite appreciated her anxiety and fear , and the fact that she was experiencing so much pain . |
| 22 | During the course of this session , I repeatedly reminded her of the fact that she was seeing something which had happened some time ago and that time had proved her recovery to be complete — something which had been born out by the numerous examinations and X-rays she had since undergone . |
| 23 | For Hester , the problem was compounded by the fact that she was thousands of miles away from Thomas . |
| 24 | It was a year during which Joan came near to forgetting her humble origins — the fact that she was the orphaned daughter of a washerwoman . |
| 25 | Joan felt a trifle faint and was grateful for the fact that she was sitting down . |
| 26 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 27 | Including the fact that she was dying . |
| 28 | ‘ The fact that she was from middle-class Dublin was obvious in that she was more strident than the farming kids from the south-east of Ireland . ’ |
| 29 | He liked the fact that she was different from anyone else in his life . |
| 30 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |