Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] [verb] 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Did you know about the fact that they 'd been captured ? |
| 6 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 7 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Four pairs of eyes fastened momentarily on this and absorbed the fact that they had been cheated . |
| 10 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Councillors feel that the fact that they have been elected gives them a right to some independence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 16 | " 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | No one , as usual , wanted to discuss the fact that he had been sentenced to death . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The incidents in Ireland told her it was n't , yet she had no proof to support the fact that he had been killed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |