Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of the second petition had turned on the fact that it included the signatures of the professors of the two schools — Sewell , Spooner and Simonds for London and Dick for Edinburgh — but no sooner had the Charter been granted than the two schools were in dispute with the Royal College . |
| 2 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 3 | Georgiana Greenwood may have been partly to blame , but it had to do with the fact that we really were n't running the conference out of the college . |
| 4 | If the victim in the latter case had known of the facts , he would presumably not have bought the car . |
| 5 | On that occasion she had put it down to the letter from Doreen , but now she began to wonder if the real cause of his irritation had stemmed from the fact that he had embraced her . |