Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives credibility to the particular choice we as a self-defining ‘ human ’ group have made , and reinforces the validity of that choice by obscuring the fact that we make it voluntarily , rather than have it imposed on us by scientific laws which are unquestionable and necessary . |
| 2 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 3 | Nothing particular follows from the fact that he visits them once a month , except perhaps we infer that he has a close relationship with them . |
| 4 | The fact that he found it less easy to talk about such things to a young girl did not mean he was less impassioned than she was . |
| 5 | And , though I hate to admit it , the fact that I saw him differently was Sophie 's doing . |
| 6 | The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly . |
| 7 | In spite of the fact that you turned her away , I was afraid that your love and devotion to her might make you forget how she had shamed you . |
| 8 | At least when that happened , she would stop feeling his rejection so poignantly — stop caring about the fact that she disgusted him so much that he did n't want anything to do with her except sexually , and that against his will and to the damage of his self-respect . |
| 9 | It certainly did n't change the fact that she disliked him intensely . |