Example sentences of "fact [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This character has a northern accent and the fact is important to the handling of the piece . |
| 2 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
| 3 | The fact is I did take it out once or twice , determined to do something with it , but other things , like earning enough to keep a roof over our heads and send the children to decent schools , always seemed to intervene . |
| 4 | The fact that there is no right time , he wrote , the fact that it is bound always to be too early or too late , that fact is little consolation . |
| 5 | ‘ But the fact is , she did . |
| 6 | The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries . |
| 7 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 8 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 9 | The fact is there is no real evidence to suggest high-protein diets improve performance or are likely to prevent weight loss in working dogs . |
| 10 | Whereas in Crime and Punishment and in the novels which follow he can , though his narrow glee over being ahead of the fact is unworthy of his art and of what ‘ idealism ’ and ‘ deeper realism ’ intend . |
| 11 | The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing . |
| 12 | The fact is that in the world of switch-mode power supplies ( and it is a very large world indeed , covering PCB , mainframe computers , electronic telephone exchanges , military equipment , aerospace , and more besides ) it is rare to come across a Cuk converter . |
| 13 | And we tell our graduate students that they must never take such risks , construing as scruple what in fact is timidity . |
| 14 | The fact is , it works and it has taken United to the top of the Second Division , unbeaten in nine League games . |
| 15 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 16 | The simple fact is that Ford can not begin to exercise its stated intention of building a significant stake in Jaguar for another two weeks . |
| 17 | That latter fact is as true for drink and cigarettes as for any one of a dozen ‘ mood-altering ’ drugs . |
| 18 | ‘ The fact is that many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the last few years , and with encouragement and the lowest income tax rate for 50 years , I believe they will be prepared to acknowledge their privileged position and return to the community a portion of their good fortune . |
| 19 | The salient fact is that what is uniquely on offer at these parties is not all-night dancing or a few boutique drugs , but fantasy-sensation itself : the orgiastic effect of thousands of people mainlining heavy acid rock at the level of total sound . |
| 20 | The fact is that the only reasonable method of securing conviction of individuals among a rioting football mob or crowd of lager louts or gang of shoplifters is to use video . |
| 21 | The second fact is that those crews that took off on 25/26 August 1940 from bases like Waddington , Scampton , Lindholme , Hemswell and Newmarket , ill-equipped though they were to inflict any real damage on the enemy , achieved an impact on the course of the war that none could have truly appreciated at the time . |
| 22 | I realise that no series chosen to test this proposition can be free from some criticism or objection ; but this fact is less serious when no such series has , so far as I know , been constructed which fulfils the condition of a uniquely unfavourable pattern for murder . |
| 23 | ‘ The fact is , ’ wrote Clark himself on 15 August , ‘ that if we lose out in the Middle East , we shall be immediately destroyed . ’ |
| 24 | The realization of that fact is awkward since Eliot 's virtual repetition of Tennyson 's line ( which in ‘ The Sisters , , reads ‘ They were together , and she fell ’ ) in another context constitutes an act of reinterpretation . |
| 25 | The most eloquent witness to this fact is Maxse 's old ally Bridgeman . |
| 26 | I think the interesting fact is we 're not seen as an English company . |
| 27 | Just how remote this stance in fact is from the aesthetic is a matter for further debate , but it is perhaps worth interpolating that the implied valorisation of the products of these engaged avant-gardes as a function of their engagement is defeasible . |
| 28 | It sounds important but in fact is an impenetrable statement . |
| 29 | The fact is , the Corrado is one of the very best front-drive chassis around . |
| 30 | The fact is I do n't have many dealings with people of Mr Hatton 's … ’ |