Example sentences of "fact [vb -s] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Debbie 's view of knowledge as a body of fact means that she does not regard the acquisition of skills , ways of thinking about and approaching problems as an important part of learning and does not , therefore , consider their potential usefulness in jobs .
2 Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals .
3 But the fact remains that what tends to distinguish one interpretation of the Tenth Symphony from another is not so much the moment-by-moment characterization as the pacing of dramatic structure .
4 But the fact remains that he has written the most beautiful love songs that
5 I ca n't see that it matters , for the fact remains that it exemplifies the very finest and most elegant architecture which displays the first burgeoning of the English Renaissance .
6 Whether mechanical disintegration is regarded as acting alone or always or usually in conjunction with some chemical weathering , the fact remains that it appears to play a large part in desert weathering and is responsible for the predominance of angular broken waste material in deserts .
7 It looks to my lay eye extremely impressive yet the eerie fact remains that it engages missiles when they are only 2 or 3 seconds away from hitting a ship .
8 But the fact remains that I retreated to Gullholm because it 's the one place in my world free of the entire sex . ’
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