Example sentences of "[adj] fact [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 2 | Central banks agreed to buy or sell unlimited amounts of currency at points 1 per cent either side of their established par values , although the mere fact that they were prepared and willing to do this was often sufficient to limit the extent to which they had to intervene in practice . |
| 3 | Hollywood hoped that it would use immigrant directors for its own purposes but whatever the frustrations experienced by these foreigners the mere fact that they were working in the American film industry is a reminder that Hollywood was never as monolithic and stereotyped as its critics implied . |
| 4 | We wo n't ever be wealthy , but the mere fact that we ARE working means that we must be healthy and all those extra stolen minutes in the warmth of the winter sun is richness indeed . |
| 5 | One was the simple fact that it was directed at and mediated through adolescent boys , whose conception of the significance of their own behaviour is notably dramatic . |
| 6 | You yourself are an example of this phenomenon at work , through the simple fact that you are reading this book . |
| 7 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 8 | That people are born free and equal is an a priori assumption , argued Duguit , whereas it is an incontestable fact that they were born as members of a collectivity . |
| 9 | The very fact that we are considering aspects of animal welfare suggests that we are now heading in the right direction . |
| 10 | The very fact that they were conceived in black & white , helped to produce that visual strength . |
| 11 | The question did not appear to surprise her but it did surprise him , as did the very fact that they were walking so companionably together . |
| 12 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 13 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 14 | Ben had been made a Companion of Honour in the Coronation Honours List and the very fact that he was writing an opera for the Coronation created jealousy in some quarters . |
| 15 | the very fact that I 'm sitting at university , |
| 16 | The other aspect of the question you raised is really that do you change a situation by the very fact that you 're doing an evaluation ? |
| 17 | But the very fact that you are reading this book makes it probable that you wish to do the best for your health and that of your family ; so what I would like to look at here is what is the best and healthiest nutritional intake for your body . |
| 18 | However , the very fact that you are reading this proves that you are doing a lot more to prepare for life , and marriage in particular , from a Christian perspective . |
| 19 | If anyone from the group here met Kemp at 3 p.m. , it was n't Downes , because nine or ten of you here will willingly testify to the incontrovertible fact that he was talking to you from that time onwards . |
| 20 | Mr Mr I think it 's implicit in our own nature and in our own character and a known fact that we are constituted here as a general assembly and we indeed ascribe to that and I do n't think we need to affirm it on a lower level of what is in fact the very standard of our existence here er in a general assembly . |