Example sentences of "[art] fact that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's nothing to do with the working really , ma , it 's the fact that they with A facing you the spool is ready to run . |
| 2 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 3 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 4 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 5 | Everything pointed to the fact that something at an extremely high altitude looked favourably on Branson 's endeavours . |
| 6 | He was happy , or happier , apart from the fact that nothing in life had much meaning for him . |
| 7 | This collaboration was not only about generating some ideas which could become possible policies , it was also designed to allow a sharing of a common challenge and to promote understanding of the fact that everyone in an LMS environment has a vital role to play . |
| 8 | And the fact that everyone in the hierarchy , regardless of status , seems to see these boundaries in the same places suggests that the boundaries reflect some universal truth about human nature . |
| 9 | WHAT really angered me about the rudeness of Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating was the fact that everyone in Australia celebrates a holiday for our Queen 's birthday yet we never have . |
| 10 | The fact that everybody around me looked and sounded completely different from myself was worrying and disconcerting ; I wanted to shed all semblances of my past civilian life and be assimilated totally into the system of the Legion . |
| 11 | A , it 's part of , it 's linked to the fact that erm , the Council 's quite erm concerned to get , you know , community groups active in the town and responding to things as well as just the Council , Council Officer 's , but it 's also linked to the fact that we as Council Officer 's ca n't be overtly political , it 's far to say , and you know , what happens is groups get set up to resist things like last year when the hospital lost the fifty million pounds , there 's enough people on it now to say that it 's you people here that formed the bulk of thos e groups . |
| 12 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 13 | Sometimes , however , we can identify " failures to adapt " which stick out by virtue of the fact that everything around them is successfully adapted , for example : |
| 14 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 15 | In fact they positively loved the types of food included in the diet , particularly the freedom of choice , not having to count calories or units plus the fact that none of the food was expensive or difficult to purchase . |
| 16 | More important is the fact that none of them can be divorced from the realm of values . |
| 17 | The fact that none of the lesbians I knew wanted to pick up a woman in a public toilet underpinned those very basic differences in the sexuality of gay women and men , at that time , which eventually led to the split . |
| 18 | The fact that none of the elements are mutually exclusive can also be viewed as a strength , for this reinforces the important point that ideals , as well as children , do not fit neatly into narrowly defined and constructed categories . |
| 19 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 20 | The best example of this is the fact that none of the greatest music of the period was inspired by the idea of military conflict ( as some of that written by Beethoven in the following generation clearly was ) . |
| 21 | And the fact that none of her so-called friends at the college — not even her room-mate — had cared enough to warn her that her handsome fiancé apparently regarded an engagement as no pressing reason to stop ‘ playing the field ’ … |
| 22 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 23 | David Cone , pitcher for World Series winners Toronto Blue Jays , on the fact that none of the team were Canadians |
| 24 | You might take comfort from the fact that someone at least is astonished by the depth of your knowledge . |
| 25 | ‘ Not to mention the fact that someone in a protective white suit might just attract the wrong kind of attention , ’ Graham added between mouthfuls . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe not , but if I were you , Miss Williams , I 'd make sure that I confined myself to facts in future , and the most pressing one of all is the fact that someone in this town is annoyed with you ! ’ |
| 27 | Is it not a fact that everyone in the Home Office associated with this case has been properly advised by qualified lawyers , that the facts that my right hon. Friend had produced to the House today are not in dispute and that the issue is one of constitutional importance only ? |
| 28 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |