Example sentences of "fact [that] [pron] had be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 3 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 4 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 5 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 6 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 7 | The government parties , while stating that the reasons for the protests were " understandable " , condemned the fact that they had been carried out , accusing the organizers of belonging to the extreme left and of using the political prisoner issue to further their own aims . |
| 8 | Chris had a normal middle-class background , with the exception of the fact that he had been adopted and brought up in Sutton Coldfield by step-parents called Bott . |
| 9 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 10 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 11 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 12 | The fact that he had been given the Elphberg name of Rudolf by a Royalist father was of small importance to him , nor was he at first more than casually intrigued when he woke from a strangely prophetic dream in the forest of Zenda to hear two men discussing the remarkable resemblance between him and the King . |
| 13 | In addition he persuaded a papal legate to publish the fact that he had been instructed by Pope Alexander III to lay all of Henry 's dominions under an interdict unless the marriage was celebrated in the near future . |
| 14 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 15 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 16 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 17 | The incidents in Ireland told her it was n't , yet she had no proof to support the fact that he had been killed . |
| 18 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 19 | Both Himmler and Hitler disapproved of all this dangerous activity — they needed him — and Heydrich often had to sneak back to Berlin on late-night transport planes to cover the fact that he had been battling with the RAF instead of with the enemies of the State at RHSA headquarters . |
| 20 | These were intensified by the fact that he had been accused of believing that the world would continue to exist for eternity . |
| 21 | Frost maintained the fact that he had been arrested had stopped the exodus . |
| 22 | Coun Carr said the council 's budget had all-party support and the fact that it had been ignored by Mr Howard showed the futility of an appeal . |
| 23 | Neither side gave any details , apart from the fact that it had been decided to disregard the existing agreement and formulate a new one . |
| 24 | His father had confided in him and Francis himself had been surprised , not only by the nature of the confidence but also by the fact that it had been made to him . |
| 25 | However , if the scene had been described , and the noun phrase der Schrank used , it would be natural to regard the encoding of the fact that it had been used , as part of a representation of the text 's superficial characteristics . |
| 26 | The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then . |
| 27 | The fact that it had been brought to the family majlis was out of deference to me . |
| 28 | The budget was passed despite the fact that it had been voted down , earlier in the day , by the House of Councillors ( Upper House ) . |
| 29 | However , the one thing that instantly distinguished PageMaker from the rest was the fact that it had been designed to work in the same way as a traditional paste-up table . |
| 30 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |