Example sentences of "fact [conj] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 2 | Peony looked suitably chastened , but there was a glint in her eye that told Peggy there was plenty more she could say , and would say , if it were n't for the fact that she adored the Vicar with a passion that bordered on the obsessive . |
| 3 | Although Linda is not the youngest child to receive a liver , the Addenbrooke 's team carried out a successful transplant on a seven-month-old baby two years ago , her size and the fact that she has received previous surgery for her condition complicated the procedure . |
| 4 | But the Prime Minister 's dominant recognition of the Labour threat was underscored by the fact that she chose to avoid the contentious issues of water and electricity privatisation , poll tax , the trade deficit , the European Community , and the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 5 | However the fact that she lost a few battles in Cabinet does not mean that she was not the dominant figure or that the Cabinet was supreme . |
| 6 | The Galiaras were told that all the trouble was caused by the fact that she had no entry certificate , but that does not explain the inhuman treatment she received . |
| 7 | And there , after her warming-up exercises , she leaped like a gazelle , undisturbed by the fact that she was being filmed on video by two pupils and barely noticing that during the session a small group of people tiptoed on to the gallery , and she did her last jump to applause . |
| 8 | For Cecilia , however — a young black girl placed in care at 13 because her mother could n't cope — the fact that she could express anger and upset with her sister , whom she dearly loved , resulted in social workers suggesting a move , ‘ for her own good ’ , to a smaller family-style establishment in the country , miles from the inner city community in which she had grown up . |
| 9 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 10 | Second , Mary was there of her own right , and the fact that she is mentioned first probably indicates that she knew the family very well . |
| 11 | Suddenly , Nigel felt annoyed by her manner and by the fact that she had brought him nothing . |
| 12 | Lindy is sharp enough , despite the fact that she 's managed by Keith Chegwin 's brother , a man who also looks after Michela Strachan . |
| 13 | Her distinctive combination of qualities — literary talent and experience of public service — combined with the fact that she was a woman , made her a natural . |
| 14 | She did n't want the fact that she had written to me to be discovered , and perhaps be seen by her parents as another act of disobedience , causing another row . |
| 15 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 16 | This was despite the fact that she too is now branching into her own recording career . |
| 17 | More specifically , an analysis of Scottish kingship , and of the particular reasons for its strength , enables us to discard the lingering idea that Mary 's failure was predetermined by the fact that she was a woman — and worse and more pathetic , a young woman . |
| 18 | The fact that she spoke halting Danish and fluent German and held a British passport led him to conclude that she probably knew the island before World War II . |
| 19 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This is a thinly veiled attempt to disguise the characters , and a court will decide whether to the average reader this is a book dealing with Donald and Ivana , despite the fact that she changed the names , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Jackman has played Martin twice in the last eight months and lost both times , but Jackman was buoyed by the fact that she had taken a game off her on each occasion . |
| 22 | Except for the fact that she is n't meant to be Jewish , we are in stock Jewish-mother territory . |
| 23 | Mary Tudor rode to London in order to claim the throne and with the intention of reinstating the Roman Catholic Church , but the fact that she was married to Philip of Spain and wished to make him King of England , was also not acceptable and led to hostility in London . |
| 24 | Germany 's economic strength derives from the fact that she saturates the EC and Eastern Europe with her exports . |
| 25 | The insanity claim she hoped would be endorsed by the fact that she had spent several brief periods in mental institutions in Wells and Gloucester . |
| 26 | He said she was an avant-garde feminist who — when he first met her — was proud of the fact that she already had a child whose father no one knew . |
| 27 | The protagonist is one Sissy Hankshaw who uses the fact that she is afflicted with elephantiasis of the thumbs to hitch-hike round America . |
| 28 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |
| 29 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 30 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |