Example sentences of "very fact [conj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very fact that we are considering aspects of animal welfare suggests that we are now heading in the right direction . |
| 2 | ability to develop a fuller understanding of rape at that time ( 1978 ) was the very fact that we are lesbians . |
| 3 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |
| 4 | Of course there are individual doctors who are well aware of the mess their profession has got itself into ; but the very fact that they are in a profession , and one which has succeeded in armouring itself against state intervention , makes it hard for them to get their ideas accepted . |
| 5 | The very fact that they are so unknown and cost so high in human lives seems to me to be a point against the arguments of Enzensberger and Halliday . |
| 6 | However , the very fact that they are mass-produced and relatively cheap means that they are too frequently seen . |
| 7 | The question did not appear to surprise her but it did surprise him , as did the very fact that they were walking so companionably together . |
| 8 | And she was unsure whether she wanted to become involved with them again ; the jewels were not actually worth that much , and the very fact that they were of Irish origin was enough to turn her away from them . |
| 9 | A slightly more critical eye might have felt that the very fact that they were publicly proclaiming the existence of such a rumour could not advantage Profumo in any way and might easily damage him . |
| 10 | The very fact that they were conceived in black & white , helped to produce that visual strength . |
| 11 | It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different . |
| 12 | The very fact that it 's SOE and their Brigadier Munro who are handling the matter , is further proof . ’ |
| 13 | So in other words that kind of dream represents an extreme example of erm of an aborted dream , but the very fact that it 's repetitive and you keep having them , Freud would say , is , is a demonstration of the fundamental idea , th that the dream attempts to try and put the past right as it were , you try and dream about it , but you fail all the time . |
| 14 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 15 | Research indicates that behaviour may be altered by the very fact that it is being monitored . |
| 16 | The very fact that it is difficult to find reasons either for including it or for excluding it tells us something about the peculiarly arbitrary process involved in categorizing policies as ‘ social ’ . |
| 17 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 18 | To him the divine character of Christianity was vindicated not by its reasonableness but by the very fact that it was the kind of thing no ordinary mind could have invented . |
| 19 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 20 | The very fact that there are bodies in existence whereby such matters can be mulled over , experiences exchanged and ‘ fixes ’ established bodes more than well for the safe operation of such aircraft . |
| 21 | Perhaps it is exemplified by the very fact that there is a Microsoft Upgrade Centre in the UK , whose job it is to make it easier for the end user to upgrade to the latest release of any product . |
| 22 | But if you do have pe people will say if you do h have those weaknesses and if er there were times that he could was quite up to the joshing and the name calling , there were times when he was n't , the very fact that there were times when he was n't , does n't that tell you that perhaps the Army was n't the place for him ? |
| 23 | So why now did the very fact that he was awake and talking to her seem like an invasion of her privacy ? |
| 24 | Ben had been made a Companion of Honour in the Coronation Honours List and the very fact that he was writing an opera for the Coronation created jealousy in some quarters . |
| 25 | Tell yourself , ‘ The very fact that I am alive gives me the right to a new beginning . ’ |
| 26 | the very fact that I 'm sitting at university , |
| 27 | The other aspect of the question you raised is really that do you change a situation by the very fact that you 're doing an evaluation ? |
| 28 | But the very fact that you are reading this book makes it probable that you wish to do the best for your health and that of your family ; so what I would like to look at here is what is the best and healthiest nutritional intake for your body . |
| 29 | The very fact that you are interested enough in the possibility to be reading this book makes it so . |
| 30 | However , the very fact that you are reading this proves that you are doing a lot more to prepare for life , and marriage in particular , from a Christian perspective . |