Example sentences of "fact [conj] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is moderated by the fact that since we are all naturally deviant given the chance , we can identify with offenders because we can imagine them being ourselves . |
| 2 | He has told April that I am insanely in love with him , and now they both hate me : he , because I have made it plain this is not the case , and she for much the same reason , only compounded by the fact that since he has raised the subject , and in view of his demeanour towards me … |
| 3 | I think for me I love erm er er er I love a challenge , and er I suspect the fact that before I went into it people said it was erm something which was erm absolutely impossible er er and that the their was no way that one could make a go of it erm made it made it made it perhaps all the more challenging to try to prove them wrong . |
| 4 | If he 's very good looking , and/or a terrible flirt , you have to face the fact that unless you 're very self confident , sooner or later you may worry about him straying . |
| 5 | The food is imaginative and delicious — so good in fact that unless you have pre-booked it is virtually impossible to get in for dinner at week-ends . |
| 6 | The third reason relates to the fact that whereas it does n't make sense to say ‘ It 's afternoon ’ on the Sun , it does make sense to talk of other people 's feelings . |
| 7 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 8 | What with Mrs Clements and the girls also gone for the week , I suppose I was very conscious of the fact that once I departed , Darlington Hall would stand empty for probably the first time this century — perhaps for the first time since the day it was built . |
| 9 | This difference between the two structures accords very closely with the fact that while we can readily use nouns ( including even proper names ) in the prenominal attributive position to qualify other nouns , we seldom find the corresponding nouns distributed across subject and post-copular position : ( 3 ) the Atlanta flight his St. Francis medallion ( 4 ) the flight is Atlanta This medallion was St. Francis |
| 10 | Protagonists in the optical disc industry may have overlooked the fact that while they have been arguing the merits of their various platforms , hard disc storage has been growing ever larger . |
| 11 | The problem that Scotland somehow has to overcome is that fact that while there is a high degree of quality there remains the worrying lack of quantity . |
| 12 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 13 | The disadvantages , however , are that it would be much more expensive to construct , requiring the construction of several bridges , and the fact that while it straddles two council areas , there will be no possibility of support from Ards Borough Council as their Tourist Officer has an agreement with Down District Council not to support a tourist railway in the Ards area as there is already one under way in the Down District area at Downpatrick . |
| 14 | This is shown by the fact that while it is possible to produce a semantic clash within the noun phrase which can only be resolved by replacing the adjective or the noun ( ? extremely fast wines , extremely fast runners , extremely potent wines ) , it is impossible to produce a clash which can only be resolved by replacing either the intensifier or the noun . |
| 15 | I knew he loved and needed me , but the fact that while I washed up , scrubbed , cleaned and tidied for us both he was making contact with people I had never met , would never meet , and whose names I did not know , formed a cloud over my days . |
| 16 | These abrupt changes of style in the Demoiselles are due to the fact that while he was working on it Picasso came into contact with tribal art . |
| 17 | We took as our starting point the fact that whether you like it or whether you do n't like it , it is a fact of life . |
| 18 | But one must still be wary the fact that although we 've got this nice electric gadget , that we drop the probe into a bucket of water and it gives us er a salinity it is still entirely dependent on this ratio and this ratio is based on the constancy of composition which is very good for open ocean waters but breaks down in coastal waters where erosional processes , where fresh water additions and the sediment loads of the rivers may actually alter this ratio , okay ? |
| 19 | Their instinct is to try to hide this for fear of being thought weak or inadequate , and this , in part , contributes to the fact that although their overall experience of the distress of bereavement may be slightly less than that of widows , many men take longer to recover fully . |
| 20 | This comparative analysis is assisted by the fact that although their individual biographies are different , both are motivated by a similar ambition — they wish to secure a position of deputy headteacher in one of the city 's comprehensive schools . |
| 21 | This will account for the fact that although it is the obvious lesson of Darwinism that species mutate , they can not be said to be aware of this nor in any sense to change themselves . |
| 22 | Unwilling to be a wallflower at the workstation ball , Intergraph Corp muscled in with an announcement that it will implement Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system for its Intergraph Clipper RISC microprocessor — despite the fact that although it was one of the very first to declare a commitment , it has still not made good on its promise that it will put OSF/1 on the Clipper . |
| 23 | More perplexing is the fact that although she gets all her work from one firm and has no control over the quantity , this woman describes herself as ‘ self-employed ’ . |
| 24 | This difference may account for the fact that although there is now a great deal of empirical evidence linking monetary or aggregate demand shocks to real output fluctuations — evidence which we shall discuss in later chapters — the evidence that unexpected price changes affect output is much weaker ( see , for example , Fair , 1979 ) |
| 25 | And one thing we will learn from it I think , if we 're honest with ourselves , and we put , and try and save up and have a piece on the end there , but the one thing I think we will perhaps come to , and the one conclusion we may come to , is the fact that whilst we , we do live in this world and I absolutely agree that if somebody says , look I need to see a new as well , I need to see you now , or I need to see you tomorrow , that 'll be difficult , O K , and that 's the immediacy of the business . |
| 26 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 27 | Is it not a fact that because we have introduced up to 100 per cent . |
| 28 | At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here . |
| 29 | Ladies and gentlemen erm about three years ago we finally decided to restore this car that you see behind us and although it was er an impossible task at times we , we carried on regardless and I hope that you 'll agree that everything you see today , plus the fact that seeing everybody out here , I think we , you 'll agree we made the right decision and er we feel that as long as this car is in this position that nobody 'll erm have any doubts who the Three- Ninetieth Group were and er , I think er , I think we 're all proud of this day particularly . |
| 30 | This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance . |