Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the fact that one is a non-executive director does not diminish one 's legal duties or responsibilities . |
| 2 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 3 | In other words , the differences between the two may come down to the fact that one is a linguist interested in grammar , while the other is a psychologist interested in the functional relations between language and the immediate context . |
| 4 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 5 | It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters . |
| 6 | But why ( if it were not for the fact that one is a Christian ) should one be wanting to stay with the experience of women within the biblical tradition ? |
| 7 | The major differences between speech and writing derive from the fact that one is essentially transitory and the other is designed to be permanent . |
| 8 | I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box , one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead … which should make a difference … should n't it ? |
| 9 | More important was the fact that one was a Copt and one a Moslem , which gave hope that , honour being satisfied on both sides , the exchanges might not be carried further . |
| 10 | Not just the nudity of the girls , or their poses , but the fact that nobody was looking at them , except herself . |
| 11 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 12 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 13 | The fact that something is wrong with this policy is now being recognised outside the Department of National Heritage , the tourist boards and Parliament . |
| 14 | ‘ But he was very single-minded then and the fact that something was very good already did not mean he could not improvise . ’ |
| 15 | Whitney and Hughes both took four wickets , and all 10 wickets fell to catches , as in the Australian first innings : only once previously ( WI v India , Bridgetown , 1982–83 ) have the first 20 wickets in a Test fallen to catches , and the eventual 33 catches in this match was a new Test record ( as was the fact that no-one was bowled — a first for a completed Test ) . |
| 16 | It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different . |
| 17 | ‘ The criticism we are getting and the fact that everybody is writing us off does n't bother us a bit . |
| 18 | ‘ It gives me a lot of pleasure to be top but the fact that everybody is surprised is disappointing . ’ |
| 19 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 20 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 21 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 22 | er without having prior knowledge of the fact that somebody 's |
| 23 | But surely the fact that somebody 's of a different generation will erm th th they would have a different |
| 24 | The only people they do n't want to upset are the people at the garage the fact that somebody is n't doing their job properly somebody 's sitting on a form somewhere |
| 25 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |
| 26 | This sounds very bland but in practice it is complicated by the fact that what is nice for one person is nasty for another and vice versa . |
| 27 | Fry drew mocking attention to the fact that what is involved in pop is not simply music , but music as articulated through a performer or , rather , through an image of a performer — and if musical meaning is conventional , not natural , so is our sense of pop personality . |
| 28 | Second , the idea of self help obscures the fact that what is being sought are facilities on the cheap , incorporating the unpaid labour c.f mothers themselves … |
| 29 | However , the fact that what was being sought was an interim order undoubtedly coloured the judge 's approach . |
| 30 | This would appear to reflect the fact that what was learned , and from whom it was learned , was considerably more important than where it was learned . |