Example sentences of "compound by [art] [noun] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 2 | The supply problem was further compounded by the fact that during the four years of war only 50,000 dwellings were added to the national stock . |
| 3 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 4 | The irony is only compounded by the fact that in retrospect those trade figures turned out to be misleading and only a statistical ‘ blip ’ . |
| 5 | The difficulties of ICI Fibres were compounded by the fact that throughout the European industry , capacity was already ahead of production in anticipation of still better things to come and there were programmes for further expansion . |