Example sentences of "fact [that] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |
| 2 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the Constituent Assembly was dissolved after the 1917 Revolution , and the Bolsheviks ' Land Decree had stolen the main plank of the Socialist Revolutionaries ' platform , Siberian and Black-Earth peasants alike failed to give any further support to their still loyal party , despite the fact that for a period an SR-dominated Directory prevailed in eastern Russia . |
| 5 | Behind this instability lies the simple fact that for many commodities such as coffee and ground-nuts , demand in the industrialized world with its stable population has probably reached saturation point . |
| 6 | It is a fact that for a time last year , there were no statements at all being issued about Northern Ireland by the Labour Party headquarters . |
| 7 | But the particular psychological shock involved in this one arose from the fact that for the previous two centuries family ties among the landholding classes of England and Scotland and inter-marriage between the royal families had made relations between the two countries very close . |
| 8 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 9 | But it 's a deplorable fact that for far too long lawyers and others have ignored this important area , and have left doctors to wrestle alone with its complexities . |
| 10 | They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other . |
| 11 | At its most intrusive the V8 roars valiantly under full throttle , but there is no escaping the fact that for demanding driving this engine occasionally labours under the strain . |
| 12 | Indeed , most of their problems spring from the fact that for them the two functions are deeply connected . |
| 13 | This public celebration is still usually followed by the private honeymoon , despite the fact that for many it will not be the first holiday they have had together . |
| 14 | Many elderly people have a wide range of interests , maintain them — if only through reading — right on into old age , and still enjoy the cut and thrust of discussion and debate ; but we have to accept the fact that for some , the main topics of conversation will be their own and other people 's health , past reminiscences , and family matters . |
| 15 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 16 | Bob Mays had to confront the fact that for years he had been loving someone else 's daughter . |
| 17 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 18 | Another legacy of the French period of broadcasting is the fact that for a long time few such stations broadcast in African languages : radio services in the Ivory Coast are dominated by the French language even today . |
| 19 | More important , however , was the fact that for the time being other parties of the right — the Carlists and especially the CEDA — commanded the support of those to whom fascism might otherwise have hoped to appeal . |
| 20 | The proximity of the two articles demonstrates the sad fact that for every case of human suffering Amnesty International seeks to alleviate , there are many other innocent people whose human rights are routinely abused . |
| 21 | This , then is the state of affairs which Rigoberta Menchu has been trying for the past 11 years to bring to the world 's attention — an almost impossible task , given the fact that for most of that time the international press found Nicaragua and El Salvador much more diverting . |
| 22 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 23 | But given the dumb actors portrayed , there seems to be a clear need to draw distinctions between , at one extreme , the cat and the chicken and , at the other , the sea anemone and the mud-dauber ; despite the fact that for many readers , ethologists included , the wasp 's habits will be the most intriguing of all . |
| 24 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 25 | Here the problem rests on the fact that for orthodox Marxism there can be only one ‘ other ’ , that of the working class , into which all other oppressed groups , so-called ‘ minorities ’ , must in the last instance be subsumed . |
| 26 | The fact that for 30 years social scientists have struggled to produce a theory of interaction tells us just how complex it is . |
| 27 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 28 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 29 | It consists in the fact that for Locke civil government , as opposed to tyranny or despotism , must be founded on contract and consent . |
| 30 | Here is a testable prediction , all the more interesting for the fact that for appropriately chosen orientations of the axes unc one can show that quantum mechanics leads to a violation of the Bell inequality . |