Example sentences of "fact is [that] " in BNC.

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1 The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work .
2 The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries .
3 The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology .
4 He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist .
5 The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing .
6 The fact is that in the world of switch-mode power supplies ( and it is a very large world indeed , covering PCB , mainframe computers , electronic telephone exchanges , military equipment , aerospace , and more besides ) it is rare to come across a Cuk converter .
7 For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French .
8 The simple fact is that Ford can not begin to exercise its stated intention of building a significant stake in Jaguar for another two weeks .
9 ‘ The fact is that many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the last few years , and with encouragement and the lowest income tax rate for 50 years , I believe they will be prepared to acknowledge their privileged position and return to the community a portion of their good fortune .
10 The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound .
11 The fact is that the only reasonable method of securing conviction of individuals among a rioting football mob or crowd of lager louts or gang of shoplifters is to use video .
12 The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time .
13 Yet the plain fact is that this number of children are dying every day — dying from diseases we know how to cure .
14 The plain fact is that Syria , together with the principal promoters of the Arab League ‘ peace plan ’ such as the US and Saudi Arabia , and its reluctant supporters such as France , have taken fright at its enforcement .
15 Ignoring the rights and wrongs of Lord Elton 's disagreements with some of his members , the fact is that a body meant to protect investors has been overshadowed by policy rows with the investment firms which make up its membership .
16 But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’
17 The sad fact is that the SMG is financed by two boroughs , Ealing and Hounslow , members of which are sympathetic to their aims .
18 But the fact is that the golf writers have , in the recent past , been thoroughly spoiled for choice .
19 The fact is that Mr Kinnock and his friends understand well enough not only that they could not be elected but that Britain could not be governed without some serious accommodations of the kind they now stand for .
20 But the sad fact is that even if it is possible to achieve a co-incidence between desire and responsibility , ecstasy and concern , Weller is incapable of such a balance .
21 Tony Visconti : ‘ The fact is that David Bowie was becoming more and more disenchanted with Pitt .
22 The sad fact is that although the ostensible reason for the dolphin kills was that dolphins were stealing and eating the commercial fish species , examination of their stomach contents showed that only the false killer whales were actually feeding on yellowtail .
23 The fact is that projects in Japan are profitable , both for firms and investors .
24 The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : …
25 The interest of the rest of the ‘ virtuosi ’ ( as they were known ) was a more general one in the ‘ new philosophy ’ and its aims ; for the fact is that the Royal Society provided a focus for a whole movement of thought .
26 The fact is that in some countries there is more than one party affiliated to the Socialist International .
27 The fact is that we have entered here upon the theatre of the absurd , as well as the stage of the miraculous .
28 Notwithstanding the reservations of Glynn and Oxborrow it is clear that population growth rates were less than one third of their nineteenth century peaks and the fact is that there was a substantial loss of population from the old industrial areas to the new ones .
29 The fact is that the birth rate declined by almost half between the 1900 and the late 1930s , and by an even higher proportion when compared with nineteenth-century levels .
30 The fact is that the rich retained most of their income and wealth , although there was , quite clearly , some transference of wealth and income from the very rich to the middling rich sections , as indicated in Table 6.3 .
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