Example sentences of "fact that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that we do n't hear so much about AIDS these days the problems are increasing . |
| 2 | The Inland Revenue form R190(SD) contains the certificate and the form requires the donor to state that he satisfies all the conditions relating to Gift Aid ( as to which , see 4 below ) , including the fact that he has paid , or will pay , tax equal to the basic rate on the gross amount of the gift . |
| 3 | However , a gift to ACET is completely free of inheritance tax , due to the fact that ACET is a charity . |
| 4 | The growing number of men , women and children with AIDS and the fact that people with the disease now survive longer , have made ever more pressing demands on our Home Care teams . |
| 5 | The fining of airlines plus the fact that the nationals of many refugee-producing countries now need visas to travel to this country , has made it extremely difficult for many people wishing to apply for asylum , to reach the UK . |
| 6 | His unusual topic gave Fry trouble with the title of his lecture : ‘ The mere fact that we have no word to designate that body of studies which the Germans call Kunstforschung — a body of studies of which the actual history of Art is only a part — is significant . |
| 7 | Art histories often make an attempt to keep to chronology , although the difficulties include the crucial fact that in art there is no clear sequence of events . |
| 8 | Buying and selling art is at its most dramatic in an auction , a fact that auction houses are quick to exploit . |
| 9 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 10 | Because of their frontality African figure sculptures are commonly photographed or drawn full face , concealing the fact that the sculptor has paid a great deal of attention to the profile view . |
| 11 | It fulfilled none of my expectations and seemed to be merely trying to make me laugh at the fact that it had left me standing there grasping at nothing . |
| 12 | At the same time , he accepts the ‘ obvious ’ fact that ‘ facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience ’ . |
| 13 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 14 | And the fact that you already have a good instinct for acting will probably have been the main reason why you passed your entrance audition for drama school . |
| 15 | This was despite the fact that the reform of Irish catholicism in the nineteenth century sprang mainly from urban areas . |
| 16 | From de Valera 's point of view — and the majority of the nation and its politicians would have concurred — the fact that the Free State was over 90 per cent catholic meant that its moral and social outlook would reflect catholic beliefs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 20 | He certainly felt that the culture of the state should reflect the fact that it was 93 per cent Roman catholic . |
| 21 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 22 | Loyalist parties refused to join in , and the Provisional Sinn Fein was excluded by the fact that the ground rules for the forum only allowed parties accepting constitutional , nonviolent politics to participate . |
| 23 | That men in particular do not benefit from the procedures was suggested by the fact that twice as many women as men filed for divorce . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The fact that a prominent member of the current community council and an integrated education supporter was a member of official Sinn Fein , the Workers ' party , appeared to figure in the reasoning , as this party has always been suspected to be an anti-clerical and secularist force . |
| 26 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 27 | And the fact that I soon got away from it . |
| 28 | My horror at the fact that it was not unpleasant , that I was almost enjoying it , and that it was killing me . |
| 29 | And Goldberg , pushing the typewriter from him , dragging the pad towards him , Dear Harsnet , I am well aware of the fact that you have cut yourself off from all your old friends , and that you wish to have nothing more to do with them . |
| 30 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am well aware of the fact that for some years now you have cut yourself off from your past and not deigned to reply to the letters of your friends , or even to return their calls , taking refuge in your answering machine and pretending not to be in when they rang at the bell . |