Example sentences of "[art] fact that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is because of the fact that they total to four , and so include the fourth , climactic one , that Yahweh 's punishment falls . |
| 2 | ‘ I take it , from the fact that they remarked on it , that they 're not Copt themselves ? ’ |
| 3 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |
| 4 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 5 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |
| 6 | As a result , the fact that they sprinted up the hill receives an emphasis which is not part of the interpretation of [ 31 ] , but is more like the one conveyed by [ 32 ] . |
| 7 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 8 | Then , exasperated by her own confusion , and the fact that they seemed to be going round in circles , Ellie demanded , ‘ Feargal , just tell me what it is you want to know — what , in fact , we 're supposed to be talking about ! ’ |
| 9 | Eugene Malou and Frank Friedmaier are far more interesting than the people by whom they are condemned : the fact that they come to sticky ends is Simenon 's fig-leaf , his nod in the direction of conventional morality . |
| 10 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 11 | 5.3 There are two further reasons for not accepting any sort of identification between adverbal adjectives and predicate qualifiers , apart from the indications given by ambiguity , and by the fact that they correspond to different types of question , and by the intuitively close relationship which is found in many cases between a verb + adverbal adjective pair and a single lexical verb . |
| 12 | But you know , certainly the way the letters had been written , and the fact that they became by recorded delivery , you know if it was a bluff , it was , certainly fooled me . |
| 13 | The fact that they arc to some extent predictable does enable management to identify the times when staffing needs will be increased . |
| 14 | Yet , despite this intimacy , the fact that they exist as a couple with a unique value in each other 's eyes ( a point marvellously grasped in Donne 's love-poetry ) , they remain separate , even when man and woman strive to overcome the fundamental dualism of life . |
| 15 | These new roads may often be recognised by the fact that they run for miles without passing through a village , or indeed habitation at all apart from their own toll-houses ( their most notable addition to the scene ) and an inn or two attracted to the roadside by the prospect of traffic . |
| 16 | The fact that they happened to be sites where nuclear waste was already produced , where there might be a flicker of acceptance from the local population , and appeared to have been chosen more from expediency than science , did n't seem to embarrass the already embattled industry . |
| 17 | Did it make them stronger in their faith so that when they leave school and face the terrible temptation of the world , the fact that they danced on the altar during mass strengthen them against the temptation ? |
| 18 | Bacteria can show ‘ learning ’ by the fact that they move in response to a chemical gradient , but this is clearly different from the memory capacity of higher animals and man . |
| 19 | They all owe their existence to the fact that they live on islands such as Borneo , Sulawesi and the Philippines , where they have had to face less competition . |
| 20 | Housing is a basic need and it is therefore to be expected that the lower income groups will pay a higher proportion of their income to meet housing costs than the higher income groups , in spite of the fact that they live in less adequate accommodation . |
| 21 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 22 | The fact that they overlap with each other to a large degree is not so important if one does not insist on discovering several distinct functions . |
| 23 | They may owe their intact status to the fact that they belong to a recluse . |
| 24 | In principle , however , the public law nature of the SROs ' rules and the fact that they operate in an integrated way with the SIB 's rules should mean that a court is able to take the same approach to the interpretation of both the SROs ' and the SIB 's rules . |
| 25 | The fact that they occur in shales without other benthic remains makes it very likely that they were free floating , and this is consistent with the way some of the species were constructed . |
| 26 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 27 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
| 28 | However , the title development is useful because it highlights the fact that something has to be done with evaluations : something to improve the process next time around . |
| 29 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 30 | The greatest pleasure I gave him was the fact that nobody knew about me . |