Example sentences of "[art] fact [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 2 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 3 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 4 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 5 | The listing of pubs is made more difficult by the fact that they have almost always been altered . |
| 6 | on more than one occasion … senior ranking officers have made no bones about the fact that they attribute many of the problems of contemporary police work to the pernicious influence of the media and sociology ! |
| 7 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 8 | The use of cables , if available , is excellent for bringing out the definition at the centre of the chest ( origin ) due to the fact that they allow movement over the body 's centre-line without loss of tension . |
| 9 | Opponents may draw comfort from the fact that they are described officially as ‘ a temporary obstruction on the highway ’ . |
| 10 | Therefore , they try to conceal the fact that they are talking to people , sometimes by giving the impression through non-verbal behaviour that they are issuing directions , or by calling at their homes . |
| 11 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 12 | There were no discussions at all on the improvement of the peasant economy , despite the fact that they would have reaped quick propaganda rewards for the Bolshevik Party . |
| 13 | The fact that they had not fought about it should have announced their despair . |
| 14 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Another more important criticism of Marx 's and Engels 's technological sequences comes from the fact that they give the impression that progression through these technological stages was an inevitable progression from lower to higher . |
| 17 | What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred . |
| 18 | Personally I do n't think it is traditions which are weighing them down but the fact that they have no support at home . |
| 19 | As for the women , the government seems not to regard them as human beings at all , unless as in the days of the British Empire the fact that they are women can be used to deny them basic rights or torture them in special ways . |
| 20 | Back in the early '60s , that 's how Shelby contrived it , and although the majority of Cobras were road cars , that does n't alter the fact that they 're all racers under the skin . |
| 21 | Detainees are often subject to prison conditions despite the fact that they have not committed any crime . |
| 22 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
| 23 | ‘ They had regard for the previous exemplary record of West Ham and the fact that they have already taken action against their players concerned , ’ Kelly added . |
| 24 | They were already getting used to the fact that they were very popular . |
| 25 | Many Americans regret the fact that they now discuss sport with the passion that 200 years ago they brought to everyday debates on theories of representative government ( and , as historians of the revolution have made plain , there really were such debates ) . |
| 26 | But the Americans , apart from the fact that they probably provided the guns in the first place , paid out $1m to persuade people to hand them in . |
| 27 | But an increasing number , typified by the conservative Heritage Foundation , define themselves above all by the fact that they hold a coherent body of ideas , and want to spread them . |
| 28 | Other than the fact that they provide a satisfactory explanation , there is often no independent test of their truth . |
| 29 | Even ignoring the fact that they were meant as definitions of natures or essences , Gassendi finds something wrong with the idea of finding universal propositions for the premisses of a scientific syllogism . |
| 30 | In the health service the initial shock that patients can be denied treatment fades as the public becomes used to the fact that they are . |