Example sentences of "fact that at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also confronted them with the disagreeable fact that at any moment some disorder in their own sensory apparatus would cause that universe , ostensibly so orderly and so stable , to disappear . |
| 2 | Certainly , no-one devising a system of government for a late twentieth-century industrial democracy would give the right to alter legislation to a group of people whose only qualification is the fact that at some time in the dim and distant past a grateful monarch rewarded the loyalty , bravery , intrigue , obsequiousness or blackmail of an ancestor with the grant of a title and the profits of plunder . |
| 3 | Earlier we were discussing the fact that at some stages of life we are , unconsciously at least , expecting the imminent demise of someone we love , as in the case of a very elderly parent . |
| 4 | The general story is well known : the director at Ulm saying you must go to better things , your dismissal , months of unemployment , and then the chance of the Aachen post despite the fact that at 27 years of age you were thought far too young for such an important post in German musical life . |
| 5 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 6 | But despite the fact that at first sight the novel looks as though it is going to offer a fairly conventional , though well-written account of an actual incident , this is not a book from which to learn about Russian history . |
| 7 | That is to say , I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day , what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a lighthearted , humorous sort . |
| 8 | A general approximation is that a 10°C rise in temperature doubles the rate of reaction , but in practice , the usefulness of this approximation is limited by the fact that at temperatures far removed from ‘ normal ’ , other changes often take place which never occur at normal temperatures . |
| 9 | Anybody who had been to Venice must , he thought , confess that much of the beauty of that city consisted in the fact that at every turn the eye met with different kinds and styles of buildings , — at one moment Palladian and at another Gothic . |
| 10 | Sir Charles Jasper , an authority on the occult , has chosen this theatre in which to hold a dinner party to celebrate the fact that at eleven o'clock that night he will come into a fortune — but if he dies before eleven his nephew , Maurice , will inherit instead . |
| 11 | One of the most bizarre elements of the whole plutonium jigsaw is the fact that at one time the government sanctioned , at cabinet level , two private companies to own some of the material even though it had been produced by the electricity generating industry . |
| 12 | The sense of comic opera or mini tragedy was reinforced by the fact that at the March meeting the Shetland Islands Council received a letter from the Scottish Office , indicating that as ministers would not be able to deal with the issue ‘ for quite some considerable time ’ , could not the Shetland Islands Council sort out the matter ? |
| 13 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 14 | Fair enough in the circumstances , but since the extended expiry date in 1952 , several growers have received individual concessions and , although the overall aim has been to gradually reduce the Gamay , the fact that at least 20 hectares exist , some 60 years after the law intent on banning the grape was first introduced , surely indicates that a certain laisser-faire attitude has been taken by successive administrations . |
| 15 | Posters and manifestos ignored the fact that at least one in 20 of the population is black . |
| 16 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 17 | Although she knew that , at best , her mother 's approval was qualified , Constance derived strength from the fact that at least she now knew . |
| 18 | The fact that at times the child seems well able to respond to them reinforces their view that their child is being naughty . |
| 19 | The fact that at least half of the children who waited in long-term care were in children 's homes became the more powerful message . |
| 20 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 21 | The fact that at least half of the world 's children would not actually go through this process beyond the first two stages is conveniently forgotten or ignored and , no doubt , the reasons for this were largely social . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 23 | Certainly there can be no denying the fact that at Abernethy the King of Scotland gave his son Duncan as hostage to the King of England . |
| 24 | Nevertheless this lamentable epitaph should not obscure the fact that at least in part he achieved his purpose of " bringing together the best in new thinking and new writing in its time 's " and that , as he confessed in an interview , editing it had been " one of the most important and rewarding " of all his activities . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that at the turn of the century mathematicians were happily ( in most cases ) using complex numbers , there was some residual disquiet relating to them . |
| 26 | But the complexity of democracy 's evolution is clear from the fact that at least two major streams flow together in that development . |
| 27 | Indeed both Oxford and Cambridge had become , relatively speaking , seriously understaffed over the previous decade despite the fact that at each university about 900 students were now reading English , three times as many as in 1965 . |
| 28 | and we have yet to be contacted erm despite th the fact that at the time we had our last meeting the thing was supposed to be in the post . |
| 29 | Mr. Sturge in his argument has maintained that such a lease would be valid , and that , even if the term is uncertain at its beginning when the lease takes effect , the fact that at some future time it will be rendered certain is sufficient to make it a good lease . |
| 30 | The only defect in Statutes in Force , apart from the fact that at the time of writing it is incomplete , is that it does not provide proper annotations to the statutes . |