Example sentences of "[adj] to the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | One unfortunate woman who ran a discount shoe store was oblivious to the fact she was sitting on an old school goldmine . |
| 2 | ‘ An over-inflated balloon of a film , ’ said the Times , oblivious to the fact that this is how modern children like their fantasies . |
| 3 | Are you really oblivious to the fact that he is one of the most overrated twats of this century ? … |
| 4 | The ankle muscles were holding the foot in an almost normal position — oblivious to the fact that the joints had nothing to rest on , that this was a classic case of a boy who would normally have ended up with a club foot . |
| 5 | For the most part , black parents are not interested in their offspring 's development in sport and are sometimes oblivious to the fact that they are involved in sport at all . |
| 6 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 7 | Temporarily transformed into an ass , with Titania drugged into loving his new shape ( Apuleius ' Golden Ass must be somewhere in Shakespeare 's mental world ) , Bottom persists in the good-humoured prose of l'homme moyen sensuel , utterly oblivious to the fact that the Queen of the fairies is in an erotic tizzy over him . |
| 8 | Her limbs were unsteady as she padded on bare feet , staggering a little , towards the door , oblivious to the fact that she was dressed only in a thin nightgown , that her half-combed hair flared untidily about her shoulders . |
| 9 | He continued staring at her , apparently oblivious to the fact that he had hurt her . |
| 10 | Naturally enough this kind of discourse is not unrelated to the facts of the situation . |
| 11 | To attract the best patrons the movie-houses had to ape the conventions and the standards of theatres and opera-houses but very quickly the whole industry realized that the appeal of the movie palaces was not unrelated to the fact that all customers had to be treated the same and so they became temples of a new classlessness . |
| 12 | The second part is often charged as a single count embodying such words of the sub-section as are appropriate to the facts : Deakin [ 1972 ] 3 All ER 803 ( CA ) , Bloxham . |
| 13 | If you 're sensible enough , you know you 've got to learn your lessons and not be ignorant to the fact . |
| 14 | 4 Sticking to the facts rather than exaggerating |
| 15 | Evidence of malice may be found in the statement itself — i.e. , if the words used are excessive and disproportionate to the facts . |
| 16 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 17 | Our folk theories of our contents of consciousness may be as wildly false to the facts as are our folk theories of grammar to the language that comes out of our mouths . |
| 18 | From the outset , Joan Templeman had some difficulty growing accustomed to the fact that living with Richard Branson seldom meant actually being alone with him . |
| 19 | And er the question of the grants as well , I 'm opposed to the fact that they they 're going to if we do n't hurry up er , these two sites in Harlow will not , never be completed ! |
| 20 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisdiction to determine . |
| 21 | The break-through that the Anisminic case made was the recognition by the majority of this House that if a tribunal whose jurisdiction was limited by statute or subordinate legislation mistook the law applicable to the facts as it had found them , it must have asked itself the wrong question , i.e. , one into which it was not empowered to inquire and so had no jurisiction to determine . |
| 22 | It was meant to compliment the wisteria , planted four years ago , but Claudia is resigned to the fact it might be still another six years before it puts on a show . |
| 23 | Now Pipe must be resigned to the fact that with just seven weeks of the season remaining and only 97 jump meetings left , he is out of reach of the latter figure with £784,000 . |
| 24 | The doctor had not been asked to come more often ‘ because we 're resigned to the fact that , unless it 's an emergency , he wo n't come out . ’ |
| 25 | I am , now , resigned to the fact that Morrissey , who I once loved and idolised , is a racist . |
| 26 | Sleep was impossible , even though Jack shared her bed , that night , resigned to the fact that his whereabouts would be known soon enough . |
| 27 | James Tomlinson had a mysterious experience which defied rational explanation and he is resigned to the fact that he will never satisfactorily solve the enigma of the disappearing passenger . |
| 28 | Although he always sent her out with new clothes that should have made her embody his idea of elegance , he was resigned to the fact that she would return in a version far removed from his original concept . |
| 29 | By mid-1964 Carole Ann Ford was the only member of the cast anxious to leave , resigned to the fact that the Production Office were uninterested in expanding her role beyond that of a line-feed , and wary of the prospect of being typecast forever as a ‘ kooky , fifteen-year-old science fiction ’ girl . |
| 30 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |