Example sentences of "[prep] fact [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we it was fourth year when we done it and we 'd never been shown anything like that and it was interesting because it 's the sort of fact that you you never really think about |
| 2 | I mean she wo she says pardon me or excuse me , but it 's so matter of fact that I 'd be I could never burp like that if I tried , you know . |
| 3 | But nevertheless , it is a matter of fact that there is a difference of seven hundred and fifty dwellings , in the base dwellings that we 've used . |
| 4 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 5 | Consequently , unless we are convinced of the possibility of a reductive account of knowledge , let us not tie our hands by refusing to make use of facts that we know to be true . |
| 6 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 7 | High above the disc the second albatross soared ; so high in fact that its tiny mad orange eyes could see the whole of the world and the great , glittering , girdling Circle Sea . |
| 8 | Suppose in fact that they can only estimate accurately the total and average cost of the output level the firm is currently producing . |
| 9 | People are rational , so rational in fact that they can not understand the random nature of the decisions such senior executives make . |
| 10 | So much so in fact that they 'll be looking to you to help them actually . |
| 11 | It mean in fact that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 12 | I believe in fact that we are experiencing a ‘ renationalisation ’ of art history . |
| 13 | Well I believe that we I am confident in fact that we can impose conditions and more importantly place conditions that will minimize the dust . |
| 14 | On the other hand , you will have gathered already that we are going to talk about Greater York , so I think there may be some distinct benefit and merit in you being he here to listen to that , er particular part of the topic , now the , I hope in fact that we can deal with the remainder of H One , because it it does lead quite logically into the next issue which we want to talk about , which is the new settlement in the Greater York area , er and I hope that we can get through this item by our morning break , that but whenever we do conclude on H One we will have to have a slightly longer break just to enable the seating arrangements to be sorted out properly for all participants who are involved in the discussion on the new settlement . |
| 15 | So , as far as the , the erm , erm , report is concerned er , if I 've got to make a recommendation , because obviously people have got different views on this one , it would be in fact that we go for total er , information so that people can make up their own minds , and if , and it might be wrong , but they can exercise their own prejudices . |
| 16 | We 've been precise on this because this is , if you look at your agenda papers , er quite detailed suggestion , one of the quotas , one of the options er in fact that we , the same about officer 's , erm nine twenty er the basis er , er is , is erm a very near to the that 's thirty five including capital , er we had to go fur further , obviously and , but we picked the Labour figure er and I wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm , unfortunately costly . |
| 17 | and sought advice , and we were told in fact that we were unlikely to get this because the headmaster of the particular school which he attended |
| 18 | At Kensington Palace and Highgrove the couple entertained little , so rarely in fact that their butler Allan Fisher described working for the Wales 's as ‘ boring ’ . |
| 19 | As the days went by , I did start to try the newspapers and job centres again — anywhere in fact that I thought might find me either a job or a home . |
| 20 | The first one , the first time in fact that I can remember going to the pictures , was being taken to the cinema in Lewisham by my mother to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just before the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 21 | The USA has imported some really excellent dogs , so many in fact that it is hard to see why the constant influx of new blood is required . |
| 22 | The 103/4 really does project the sound out and away from itself ; so much so in fact that it is genuinely hard sometimes to believe that it is actually responsible for what one is hearing . |
| 23 | No , and I did n't do that until I read someone Niall 's and he had repeated flowers and I thought why has he repeated flowers and realised that in fact that it is necessary . |
| 24 | You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening . |
| 25 | It seems in fact that she is immortal — for how would the bishop manage without her kindly meant tyranny ? — but no ! she dies , and with her , for me , the most interesting character . |
| 26 | It may well be in fact that there is a consensus about subjective taste , but this is quite different from saying that taste is objective ! |
| 27 | They are saying in fact that there is no truth outside or beyond the concrete historical events in which men are involved as agents [ and ] there is therefore no knowledge except in action itself , in the process of transforming the world through participating in history . |
| 28 | I would argue that in the past we should be doing much more to encourage people to go to and from erm regional airports and I , I think that is important , they do need to be expanded , but a lot of the evidence erm er there 's stacks of evidence which is founded in sort of er exercise is er in fact that there 's not a lot of unreprimand , I mean , I wished that there were . |
| 29 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 30 | So effortlessly in fact that he would often go off during working hours with his gun to bag a pheasant or a hare rash enough to have entered our grounds . |