Example sentences of "the fact [conj] we " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 32 | ‘ I usually travel with an assistant from my management company and she does the same so we look a fine pair , both of us sitting there with dozens of jars in front of us , but it does the trick ; it takes my mind off the fact that we are 30,000 feet in the air at the time . |
| 33 | Heidegger 's Geworfenheit , the fact that we are thrown onto the dice-board , without choosing when or where or whether , that must always be a source of anxiety . |
| 34 | The fact that we had definite goals on each trek , such as reaching a summit by sunrise , made the whole thing feel like an expedition . |
| 35 | ‘ You could say that our first success is the fact that we exist , ’ he says . |
| 36 | The fact that we can judge precisely the response to a particular ad is a slightly dangerous idea . ’ |
| 37 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 38 | That 's not counting the damage to transformers and other equipment from the nests that escape our attention , or the fact that we have to deal with similar problems in Caithness and Shetland . ’ |
| 39 | One has to be , but it does n't blind me to the fact that we are both solemn underneath the surface . |
| 40 | The fact that we do n't require the evidence of God 's existence to be overwhelming does not mean that we require no evidence of God 's existence at all . |
| 41 | Other people , for all that we may claim to understand them , still have an irreducibly transcendent ‘ core ’ — expressed in the fact that we can never enter their minds and think as they do . |
| 42 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 43 | This is due to the fact that we are no longer told to add crushed rusks to our babies ' bottles at just a few weeks old . |
| 44 | This use of language marks a significant shift in emphasis from the post-war years when those in receipt of public services were regarded more as applicants and claimants than as consumers ( the same shift can be seen in London Regional Transport 's irritating habit of addressing its passengers as customers — despite the fact that we have no real choice and the quality of service has not altered in line with the changed mode of address ) . |
| 45 | James , writing in the New Testament , focuses on the fact that we pray to the ‘ giving God ’ , who enjoys giving to those who ask him . |
| 46 | I like the fact that we sold enough records to go on there even if the event was a little embarrassing . ’ |
| 47 | Predominantly because we came from outside , but clearly assisted by the fact that we were women . |
| 48 | The fact that we had a more open policy over those ten years has actually infiltrated into or irrigated the BBC and ITV , but you will still see a great area of editorial heads , or heads of departments , the equivalents of the commissioning editors , the executive heads , where there are very few women . |
| 49 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 50 | Tasting : The fact that we all seem to live life in such a hurry means that much of our food and drink is taken while rushing around . |
| 51 | I can not accept that I should adopt a live-and-let-live neutral attitude to hawks and pigeons even though I accept the fact that we share very similar body mechanisms and an identical world . |
| 52 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 53 | No , perhaps the real problem is the fact that we have to use such small hooks when using the swimfeeder with maggots or casters , which are the two baits with which ‘ feeders are associated . |
| 54 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 55 | Recognition of the true self can only come about when we show the world that we accept the fact that we are not the perfect , flawless human beings we wish to portray — when we stop living a lie . |
| 56 | All we need to do now , we are told , is to wake up to the fact that we are God . |
| 57 | The fact that we stayed in it for four seasons was not a little due to the . |
| 58 | But they may find it difficult , they must feel like they 've lost their dignity , the fact that we 're washing them . |
| 59 | But in the end we get back as much as we give , and find that though such activities are often hard work and demanding , the fact that we are needed and active is rewarding and stimulating . |
| 60 | The fact that we can put the edges in the working locations either way around allows us to exchange a pair twice , but with one edge flipped between exchanges , and this leads to all edges being in place but one pair being flipped . |