Example sentences of "fact [that] [pron] [vb base] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What pleases me is the fact that we have been creating chances and I personally feel it will only be a matter of time before we get it right . ’ |
| 2 | A factor for some of us in so doing was the fact that we have been saddened and sickened at the supermarkets ' attitudes in exploiting the European difficulty . |
| 3 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 4 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |
| 5 | Councillors feel that the fact that they have been elected gives them a right to some independence . |
| 6 | The fact that they have been asked to continue until the next World Cup makes good common sense and I hope it is a sign that at long last someone at the top is finally making the right decisions . |
| 7 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 8 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 9 | The success of these names is shown by the fact that they have been admired by Chinese scholars such as Dr Lin Yutang , Dr Cheng Te-K'un , Dr Hollington Tong and others . |
| 10 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 11 | erm I 'm conscious of the fact that I 've been going on for perhaps too long and I may not have said quite enough about Darwin , but let me just finish by saying this that it 's not possible today , I believe , to discuss any important problem in biology without Darwin 's thought being absolutely central to what you 're saying all the time . |
| 12 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 13 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |
| 14 | Whatever your beliefs with regard to an after-life , there comes a time when you realise that you cry only for yourself , for your loneliness and the fact that you have been left behind . |
| 15 | It is a reflection of this fact that there have been cited to your Lordships not only the full range of English authorities , and also authorities from Commonwealth countries and the United States of America , but in addition a number of academic works of considerable importance . |