Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not just the nudity of the girls , or their poses , but the fact that nobody was looking at them , except herself . |
| 2 | The fact that we were looking towards the United States might have been an acceptable concept during the war , but it has been an unacceptable concept for the past 12 years , during which Europe has been creating itself and showing an enthusiasm for a single European currency and a central bank and for increasing the powers of the European Community 's institutions . |
| 3 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 4 | That sport and , for that matter , entertainment may not be viable avenues from despair is less important than the fact that they were seen as such by groups who saw no alternatives . |
| 5 | It mean in fact that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 6 | ( The curious names of Svalocin and Rotanev are due to the fact that they were christened by an otherwise obscure astronomer named Nicolaus Venator ! ) |
| 7 | Clearly there is a distinct problem , not so much in the poems , but in the fact that they were written by the same man , they present so clearly different opinions of nature and the role of man , and his enlightenment . |
| 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 they were conceived in black & white , helped to produce that visual strength . |
| 10 | In later chapters we shall see Marxist writers borrowing fundamental theoretical notions , not just from Morgan , but also from others , such as the British anthropologist Taylor , and the German anthropologist Ratzel , and taking on these writers ' simple-minded theories of history in spite of the fact that they were influenced by philosophical positions totally foreign to Marxism . |
| 11 | The persistence of fossils will be the subject of the next chapter , but a cautionary note should perhaps be sounded here , for the familiarity of the fossil names may merely reflect the fact that they were studied by British palaeontologists . |
| 12 | It was an exceptionally youthful group , five of them were only fourteen , and the fact that they were booked for , of all places , the highly sophisticated Folies-Bergère made the ‘ extraordinary ’ very apt . |
| 13 | The fact that they were produced in large numbers as piece parts without machinery makes this an ideal project for a woodworker with limited equipment , who is looking for a challenge . |
| 14 | For example , although Rampton and Swann rely on public examinations , other studies have based their conclusions on a variety of other measures , including teacher assessments of reading or mathematics ; moreover , many of these tests are likely to contain cultural bias or be affected by the fact that they were administered by white teachers or researchers ( Hegarty and Lucas , 1979 ; Bagley , 1975 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was the deliberate disregard of the more sensuous and immediately appealing aspects of painting , and the temporary dismissal of all human and associational values , combined with the fact that they were working in a conceptual way , relying on memory as much as on visual models , that allowed the Cubists to distort and dislocate figures and objects to a degree hitherto unknown . |
| 17 | Reading this morning I get the impression that the win was rightfully scums ( as we all know , so is every other competition going : - } ) and it was only the fact that they were playing in such a ‘ cauldron of hate ’ that denied them their place in the champions league and inevitably the trophy itself . |
| 18 | The fact that they were considered for the Swedish national side in 1965 cut no ice with discerning Athletico fans . |
| 19 | The privileged position of the inner London five derives from the fact that they were founded by independent charitable institutions , later aided by the then London County Council and subsequently by the ILEA . |
| 20 | The fact that they were needed by the state , because there was a " public " dimension to their activity , meant that they were actually co-opted into governmental decision-making : they were asked to give advice , and , more than this , they came to act as agents through which state policy was actually implemented . |
| 21 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 22 | Does not President Christiani of El Salvador deserve widespread support , bearing in mind the fact that he was elected by the people of that country and that he has to cope with the violence of unruly military officers and also the murderous activities of the Farabundi Marti Front for the Liberation of the Nation ? |
| 23 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 24 | ‘ The fact that he was stabbed in the back by a child really hurt us . ’ |
| 25 | He said the fact that he was leaving at the age of sixty should have no bearing on the choice of his successor . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that he was born in the Auvergne in 539 , Gregory was still unable to provide an accurate account of what took place in Clermont in the 520s and 530s ; moreover he was thoroughly confused by the whole career of Quintianus , even though the latter 's successor as bishop was Gregory 's uncle and mentor , Gallus . |
| 27 | So , are you saying that Johnson , despite the fact that he was dealing with human types , human beings , was actually more realistic in terms of how the world as a whole works in that , bad people do get away with things if they 're good enough ? |
| 28 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 29 | The judge 's failure to apply the correct test in this respect was compounded by the fact that he was deprived of the material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion because of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the foster mother 's application for leave under rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 . |
| 30 | One thing he had confirmed , though , was the fact that he was living at Brooklands , his mother 's home , so Nina had been quite right in that respect , but it still left Rachel wondering why . |