Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] fact [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had fastened on to the fact that she was a Connor , played on memories of her father 's reputation for throwing races . |
| 2 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't cash in on the fact that you know I — I 'm susceptible to you . |
| 4 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 5 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 6 | The decline in England 's lineout fortunes , one would reiterate , owes most to the fact that , thanks to the mandatory gap , it is now so much easier to get in a jump against them . |
| 7 | The historic importance of these routeways owes much to the fact that they connect the contrasting environments of Alpine , Mediterranean and continental Europe . |
| 8 | There is a definite air of mystery around The Black Dog — helped along by the fact that their records have often been near-impossible to find . |
| 9 | In the attic they uncovered an exciting collection of 19th century Cambridge University calendars year books which fit in with the fact that Mr Edelson was closely connected with Trinity College . |
| 10 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 11 | It 's important but I , I would n't I do n't want to er get carried away with the fact that we 're not performing well because we are performing well . |
| 12 | The PLO 's reluctance stemmed partly from the fact that the international community officially shared its view that East Jerusalem was illegally occupied by Israel and partly because such an exclusion would prevent its most able supporters ( including Husseini ) from attending the conference . |
| 13 | And the view should not be ruled out too summarily that all our desires grow up from the fact that certain things have been found immediately pleasurable . |
| 14 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |
| 15 | It all added up to the fact that below Silas 's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others . |
| 16 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 17 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 18 | So that when we have the thing that he calls an annual review and I call a pain in the neck , I do n't actually have to put in very much work to come up with the fact that no , I 'm not going to give him a salary increase , erm , because I have his , his performance , you know , already researched throughout the year . |
| 19 | All this adds up to the fact that NDBs are thoroughly unreliable . |
| 20 | They see power as " structured " beyond and behind public participation in particular issues , and they point to another " face " of political power caught up in the fact that certain issues do not even get onto the public policy-making agenda for action and decision at all . |
| 21 | The superiority of primary over secondary school education lies mainly in the fact that most children of primary school age are open to teaching , and ready to be interested . |
| 22 | The difference between the position of Dr. Hayes and Mr. Feraday lies solely in the fact that Dr. Hayes has , and Mr. Feraday has not , retired from the service of the Crown . |
| 23 | Making mylar sheets is a little more effort , but this is cancelled out by the fact that you usually need to mark much less . |
| 24 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 25 | The difference between these two senses lies simply in the fact that loosening the nexus allows the main clause to be interpreted more as a consequence of the actualization of the contingent event expressed by the infinitive than as a judgement on the appropriateness of its occurrence . |
| 26 | The thirteenth century eyre records testify vividly to the fact that at that time previous or subsequent sexual intercourse with the same man was fatal to such an appeal . |
| 27 | We mused quietly on the fact that we prosaic Brits do n't give our winds dramatic-sounding names like our cousins across the Channel . |
| 28 | Two such quantities q and p are always related physically by the fact that their combined dimensions are those of action ; that is , the product q p can always be assigned a value in units of Planck 's constant k . |
| 29 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 30 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |