Example sentences of "fact that the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court was influenced by evidence pointing to the fact that the defendants had been negligent and it was stated that had steps been taken to mitigate the nuisance , the Council would not have found itself in the position it was now in . |
| 2 | The size of the claims , and the fact that the defendants can not recover their costs if they are found innocent , persuade many firms to settle out of court . |
| 3 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 4 | He then sought to reconcile this proposition with the fact that the defendants were also agents for Mr. Brant and it was in the course of that agency , not whilst acting as agents for the plaintiff , that the defendants had learned that Mr. Perot was interested in buying Vertigo . |
| 5 | Nor did the fact that the defendants had a direct financial interest in securing a sale of Vertigo constitute a breach of fiduciary duty since the contract of agency envisaged that they might have such a conflict of interest . |
| 6 | This follows almost directly from the fact that the actors were the ones who intended the action in the first place . |
| 7 | That would account for the fact that the drawings of Gesner 's costumes were so magnificent , so suited to his style and size . |
| 8 | Unhealthy it most certainly is ( I have been prevailed upon to refrain from detailing how ) but one only has to say the magic word AIDS to realise the sad fact that the consequences of some homosexual intercourse are far from gay . |
| 9 | The making of the assessment of damages in the light of all facts known at the date of the trial enables the court to take into account , if it be the case , the fact that the consequences of the plaintiff 's injuries were more serious than at first thought ; the fact that the expenses to which the plaintiff would be put in consequence of his injuries were higher than was first thought ; the fact that the plaintiff has died ; or the fact that the plaintiff has , since the accident , volunteered to be made redundant . |
| 10 | now if have infringed the competition rules , then the fact that the consequences maybe significant severe for them , is , is irrelevant , erm it was significant for the |
| 11 | He had played steadily enough and the fact that the Lions were able to outwit the All Blacks in that series had little to do with Mains ' ability . |
| 12 | The companies had not discharged that onus and the fact that the Commissioners did not award the maximum penalties showed that they were fully aware of the difficulties the companies faced . |
| 13 | In theory , customs and excise appointments were made by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh , but the fact that the commissioners ' recommendations had subsequently to be confirmed by the Treasury in London allowed plenty of opportunity for political intervention . |
| 14 | The fact that the Greens ' ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ is little more than a nostalgic fantasy and their economic policies might rapidly place even organic small-holders in the same income bracket as Third World peasants was not important . |
| 15 | Neither can the fact that the bagpipes of the various regimental associations and lobby groups were remarkably silent over the past few weeks . |
| 16 | The fact that the agencies have as their enforcement domain only a small segment of the population , and one almost wholly in fixed locations , means that a polluter is potentially knowable . |
| 17 | This may be connected to the fact that the youngsters came bottom as far as hugs were concerned , as 57pc said their parents hugged them compared with a national average of 70pc . |
| 18 | The lack of such a reference stems , in my view , not from the fact that the judges were wrong , as Mr. Gardiner submitted , but rather from their recognition that the cases did not support the existence of such a principle as was contended for . |
| 19 | We did n't think about the fact that the ups and downs of running a business could mean an end to a friendship — in fact , we 're probably better friends for it . ’ |
| 20 | But what was more crucial was the fact that the crowds turned out — as did the record companies . |
| 21 | But even here , the creation of an armed wing — or the fact that the nationalists are armed guerrillas — is a kind of proto-State . |
| 22 | He may have been inspired by the fact that the choristers of Magdalen College , Oxford , sing a Latin hymn at the top of the tower there to greet May Day . |
| 23 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 24 | The fact that the burns had come about in an unforeseeable way did not render the damage too remote . |
| 25 | The ‘ pulsating cusp ’ model uses the fact that the spectra of particles arriving at the ionosphere on a given field line depend upon the time elapsed since that field line was reconnected . |
| 26 | This expresses the fact that the columns of X are each arbitrary to a scalar multiplier , since in Xd , x1 is multiplied by the scalar d1 and so on . |
| 27 | The search for practical results as well as for good science stems from the administration 's desire to use technology to revive the US economy as well as from the fact that the initiatives have grown large enough to attract the attention of Congress . |
| 28 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 29 | Despite the fact that the showers were writhing with the flabby excesses of Whaddon British Legion ‘ B ’ and Mitchley Fire Brigade Dynamos , this idiot insisted on carrying out his inspection . |
| 30 | According to this theory , initial discrimination training should produce differentiation of the stimuli and the fact that the associations formed during this stage of training do not accord with those likely to be formed during the test phase should be of no consequence . |