Example sentences of "[adj] fact that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 2 | But , you see , this is a most interesting fact that you have noticed . |
| 3 | Yeah if I knew some facts that I had a job to go to , I 'd pay for it myself |
| 4 | It is a reflection of this fact that there have been cited to your Lordships not only the full range of English authorities , and also authorities from Commonwealth countries and the United States of America , but in addition a number of academic works of considerable importance . |
| 5 | In contrast , the government 's two senior legal advisers and the senior partner of a leading firm of society lawyers were so ignorant of this fact that it did not even enter their heads that it would be wise to make some enquiries before launching their client into a statement that could be , and indeed was , ruinous . |
| 6 | " Thus in the case of two drops of water " he says — " we can abstract altogether from all internal difference ( of quality and quantity ) , and the mere fact that they have been intuited simultaneously in different spatial positions is sufficient justification for holding them to be numerically different . |
| 7 | Once again , however , it was not their analysis or explanation that counted , but the mere fact that they found certain features stylistically striking . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The mere fact that I have set myself the end X , with Y as a necessary means to it , and without conflict with other prudential or moral considerations , does not guarantee me from being mistaken in doing Y ( Anyone who supposed that it did would indeed be guilty of the Naturalistic Fallacy without appeal . ) |
| 10 | It makes it sound really challenging and adventurous before you 've even bought the package , the mere fact that you have to go through that beforehand . |
| 11 | But the mere fact that he 'd left his own bed to come and check on her made her feel warm and cherished and oddly weepy . |
| 12 | The mere fact that he did not have all the information could not be an excuse for not complying with the notice under s 8 , TMA 1970 . |
| 13 | ‘ There has been a lot of pressure and the mere fact that there has been a parting does give both sides a buffer period . |
| 14 | The mere fact that she tricked the court in her disguise is dishonest . |
| 15 | Very often , the actual fact that what had become boring has suddenly become forbidden , makes the couple start to enjoy sex again ! |
| 16 | Alright , you had your moan at me last time Melvin the pure fact that I had n't put the money in |
| 17 | The simple fact that he has a family at all , is a married man with adult status , is a guarantee of some element of responsibility . |
| 18 | Are many of our women politicians the little girls who refused to recognise the unwelcome fact that they lacked a penis and , defiantly rebellious , exaggerated their masculinity … ? |
| 19 | The two broken marriages and then the obvious fact that he did n't think much of her . |
| 20 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 21 | So the meaning of a sign consists in the bare fact that it stands in an external causal relation to that which we say it signifies . |
| 22 | But these reports can not now be substantiated ; we are left with the bare fact that she spent the rest of her life in confinement . |
| 23 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 24 | Ace filled in gaps for her as they talked about his long climb up to Formula One and his present position , and because of her background she was able to fill in the bare facts that he offered . |
| 25 | Attitudinism directly relates ethics to the will , but it neglects the phenomenological fact that we think of values and obligations as something actually there . |
| 26 | It 's a widely-known fact that you had lessons from Joe Satriani … |
| 27 | The very fact that we have these details is significant . |
| 28 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 29 | In other words , the very fact that we do not consider we are worth loving causes us to put up barriers that ensure people will not have the opportunity to love us . |
| 30 | By this he means that by our very existence , by the very fact that we live on earth , we are involved in the destruction of life . |