Example sentences of "[adj] fact [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noticing , however , a consequence of this justification of clause 3 ; this is that a belief is not generally considered to be justified by the mere fact that it is true , for otherwise clause 3 would be unnecessary . |
| 2 | Part of the confidence surrounding the 19 DX comes from the very fact that it is turbocharged . |
| 3 | Research indicates that behaviour may be altered by the very fact that it is being monitored . |
| 4 | The very fact that it is difficult to find reasons either for including it or for excluding it tells us something about the peculiarly arbitrary process involved in categorizing policies as ‘ social ’ . |
| 5 | Though the very fact that it is so traditional and so formal a poem in the pastoral tradition , held in the tightness of all the conventions that it employs , not only allows , but in some strange way makes possible , the intensity of personal feeling that it contains . |
| 6 | His research has concentrated on the nature of language and the apparent fact that it is a social instrument , socially constructed and thus dependent upon language of curriculum justification ( see , for example , his ‘ The revolutions in philosophy and philosophy of education ’ , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | It 's something both they and lesbians have always been blamed for , despite the now well-publicized fact that it is heterosexual men who commit by far the most assaults on boys , as well as girls . |