Example sentences of "fact [that] [pron] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Servers can run DOS too , but this operating system is limited by the fact that it is designed to handle only one task at a time . |
| 32 | It is also quite clear that if , prior to the ten year charge , the asset had been located in the United Kingdom the fact that it is taken outside the United Kingdom so that trust becomes an excluded property trust does not cause a tax charge in itself . |
| 33 | A futures contract is distinguished from a forward contract by the fact that it is traded anonymously as a homogeneous product on an exchange , whereas a forward contract is one whose specification is determined in direct negotiation between a particular seller and a particular buyer , and is therefore not normally tradeable . |
| 34 | The undesirable aspect of duress is not in the absence of choice but in the fact that it is engineered in order to extract the consent . |
| 35 | But the fact that it is protected by unwritten convention rather than by a legal constitution means that there is no external brake upon Parliament or the courts moving to restrict it in particular ways , as the mood of the times takes them . |
| 36 | It is also worth bearing in mind another old saw , which would n't be an old saw but for the fact that it is proved by practice : Oppositions do not win elections ; governments lose them . |
| 37 | Indicative of the degenerate state into which the practice of investing had fallen is the fact that it is considered a reform that it should be inquired of the intending how old he is , under whom he has studied , and what he has studied . |
| 38 | We belong to a dog club and someone there has suggested that this may be due to the fact that she is spayed . |
| 39 | The protagonist is one Sissy Hankshaw who uses the fact that she is afflicted with elephantiasis of the thumbs to hitch-hike round America . |
| 40 | Second , Mary was there of her own right , and the fact that she is mentioned first probably indicates that she knew the family very well . |