Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 2 | Which makes the fact that its production continued at Fender until 1975 even more puzzling ; CBS were never noted for soft-spots in their accountancy approach , even with the best-sellers in the range , let alone the fringe elements like this . |
| 3 | We have noted already the fact that her passing coincided with a most virulent attack of cholera : no fewer than two thousand people in London succumbed to it in one single week in that September of 1849 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm very proud of the fact that our music flies in the face of the accepted notions of youth culture and attracts all ages . |
| 5 | ‘ I was chubby even as a baby and it was n't helped as a child by the fact that my mum believed in always feeding me up and rewarding everything with sweets . |
| 6 | SEAN HUGHES ( comedian ) : ‘ I never got over the fact that my penis looked like Bobby Charlton . |
| 7 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 8 | His adolescent distaste for Hitler was sharpened by the fact that his mother remarried to a Jew , and in 1934 he went into exile , first to France and then to England , where he settled . |