Example sentences of "and the fact [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The growing number of men , women and children with AIDS and the fact that people with the disease now survive longer , have made ever more pressing demands on our Home Care teams . |
| 2 | And the fact that you already have a good instinct for acting will probably have been the main reason why you passed your entrance audition for drama school . |
| 3 | And the fact that I soon got away from it . |
| 4 | This was caused by a combination of a very strong gust and the fact that no one was keeping the nose down while the glider was being towed into wind . |
| 5 | This man would forget the purpose of his visit , at least for a brief spell , and the fact that he was on official business , and drink tea and eat a good meal in the prosecutor 's house , crack jokes and make amiable conversation , and sleep through the heat of the day . |
| 6 | The most we can get is convincing parallelisms between the two and the fact that some parallelisms are much more difficult than others and have hitherto not been attempted is no reason for denying that a choreographic genius like Massine has the right to attempt this . |
| 7 | Success of the PC as an engineering tool must in part be due to its expansion bus and the fact that nearly every type of facility can be found on a PC card . |
| 8 | But two major problems were encountered ; the cable 's weight and the fact that it fell short of its intended destination . |
| 9 | It will require a miracle for Bedford to retain their status , even allowing for their few plus points — a top New Zealand coach , the arrival of a useful looking New Zealand scrum-half , and the fact that if the three national divisions are expanded , as proposed , next season , only one team will be going down from the First Division . |
| 10 | The price tag of almost £100m , and the fact that Fuji has agreed to a minority stake , has clearly also provided Mr Branson with reassurance — if he needed any — that taking Virgin private last year was the right thing to do . |
| 11 | ‘ The crux of our argument is that we do n't need to have toxic wastes and the fact that plants like Rechem exist , providing easy options for companies , is acting as a disincentive for companies to clean up . ’ |
| 12 | Foreign participation in such a scheme is unlikely , given the apparent opposition of Washington , and the fact that American chairman Robert Crandall is an outspoken critic of such an arrangement . |
| 13 | To do this , and to be able to return to all shareholders the full 100p value of their initial investment , the managers must achieve compound growth of 6.8 per cent — a modest target given their plan to invest 80 per cent of the fund in UK blue-chip companies and the fact that the top 20 Footsie stocks last year accounted for 40 per cent of the total income of the FT-all share index . |
| 14 | The prospect of equalling Gary Player 's record of five victories , and the fact that he has a bye into the second round on Friday , has enticed Ballesteros to make his 14th successive appearance in the World Matchplay . |
| 15 | Although Linda is not the youngest child to receive a liver , the Addenbrooke 's team carried out a successful transplant on a seven-month-old baby two years ago , her size and the fact that she has received previous surgery for her condition complicated the procedure . |
| 16 | For reasons which never seem quite convincing , given the tediousness of the material and the fact that the three do not even believe in it , this becomes an obsessive hobby over a period of years . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the large number of organisations involved and the fact that their activities are not centrally co-ordinated as in Northern Ireland , suggests that there may be scope for confusion or conflict between them . |
| 18 | Despite the huge number of potential customers ( just short of a million ) and the fact that all copies of Gudok were delivered free on the railways , the circulation was a paltry 30,000 in June . |
| 19 | He makes apparent both his sympathies with rural life and the fact that mere retreat to the tradition of the countryside is not enough . |
| 20 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 21 | Who exactly Kristeva means becomes even less clear as she adds : ‘ Let us recall the fascist or social-fascist homosexual community ( and all homosexual communities for whom there is no ‘ other race' ’ ) , and the fact that it is inevitably flanked by a community of viragos who have forgotten the war of the sexes and identity with the paternal Word or its serpent . ’ |
| 22 | Within this apologetic ( ironic ? ) defence then , sexual difference is sustained by the very inversion which divine law forbids , and the fact that it can be so sustained is simultaneously a repudiation of the claim that sexual difference is itself dictated by divine or natural law . |
| 23 | The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 24 | The uneven course of this process of political evolution , and the fact that neighbouring countries will be at different stages within it , will continue to make official regional co-operation between countries very difficult . |
| 25 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 26 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 27 | Given Chrysler 's claims for the 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T — and the fact that the company is giving serious consideration to selling the R/T in six key European markets ( Germany , Belgium , Holland , Switzerland , Austria and France ) from late 1991 — we felt it only appropriate to test the Spirit against one of Europe 's finest sporting saloons , on the kinds of roads such a car is expected to master . |
| 28 | Of greater interest to The Times was the attendance of the King at the match for the first time and the fact that a cuckoo had been heard in the vicinity of the Crystal Palace . |
| 29 | This simply was not so , and the fact that Lewis spent evenings in the company of male friends was not what distinguished him . |
| 30 | And the fact that the height of the stars in medieval astronomy is very small compared with their distance in modern , will turn out not to have the kind of importance you anticipated … |