Example sentences of "fact [was/were] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 2 | But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups . |
| 3 | The facts were that the plaintiff had insured property with the defendant company against inter alia ‘ loss or damage caused by theft . ’ |
| 4 | The facts were that B agreed to buy goods from S. S sent to B a bill of lading together with a bill of exchange ( see Chapter 3 , paragraph 3–25 above ) . |
| 5 | The fact was that she had achieved something . |
| 6 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 7 | The striking fact was that his ability to obtain or retain interlocutory injunctions against the Guardian and the Observer was ‘ wholly unaffected ’ by the Independent 's publication of Spycatcher material in April 1987 . |
| 8 | The clear fact was that he was having serious trouble knowing where to start . |
| 9 | To say nothing of the fact that ‘ charity ’ should not have been invoked in this issue , the fact was that the excruciating passion levels broke all records on this outing , bust all guts . |
| 10 | The fact was that he was not cerebral ; he was a reflex of confusing emotions and instant passions . |
| 11 | The fact was that the board got it wrong and we took the blame . |
| 12 | The fact was that talking to her either in person or on the phone gave him a sort of erection . |
| 13 | The fact was that Churchill and Eden were not of like minds and did not associate closely until Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 . |
| 14 | We were the most powerful country in the world and the overwhelming fact was that astonishing amounts of money had come into ordinary people 's homes . |
| 15 | The simple fact was that large numbers of Victorians , if not the vast majority , liked Gothic . |
| 16 | The fact was that his own heart had grown irresistibly fond of the love of his life , Senora Isabel-Maria Estanguet de Moss , whose husband had just been posted to the Argentinian Embassy in Brussels . |
| 17 | The other embarrassing fact was that MI6 never suspected for one moment that Blake was a spy . |
| 18 | The most annoying fact was that it could and should have been a masterpiece . |
| 19 | The fact was that he had been seduced . |
| 20 | However , the significant fact was that this incident took five years to come to court . |
| 21 | The undeniable fact was that these changes had ‘ a widely varied impact on skilled workers ’ . |
| 22 | While the Danzigers could ignore neither Poland 's claims to historic rights , nor the Versailles arrangements , the fact was that Danzig was sitting on a potential gold-mine . |
| 23 | Regardless of where their support came from , the fact was that possession of 38 seats in the Volkstag meant they could now rule with little or no reference to the other parties . |
| 24 | The fact was that Sir Herbert was a desperately unhappy man . |
| 25 | The interesting fact was that Lugard united in his person , in an exceptionally dramatic and compulsive fashion , the two opposing but eternally co-existing currents of British imperial thought : the desire to be powerful , and the desire to be good . |
| 26 | To think otherwise would be to succumb to the glamour and particularity with which seniority was invested by the boys themselves ; the critical fact was that , in the fullness of time , little boys who were beaten by big ones might reasonably expect to do the beating themselves . |
| 27 | Although Neil Kinnock might disagree about who had colonized whom , the fact was that between 1984 and 1987 relations between left-wing urban Labour councils and the lesbian and gay movement became very close . |
| 28 | Whatever the complications may have been , and whatever those theatre nurses may have thought , the fact was that Kirsty had suffered no physical ill-effects once she was over the post-operative period . |
| 29 | The fact was that he was enjoying the experience . |
| 30 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |