Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] [vb -s] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 2 | The fact that he travels well is not the only thing in Top Class 's favour , as Brittain explains . |
| 3 | ‘ The fact that he goes on and he thinks his ideas are the ideas . |
| 4 | The fact that he uses both personal and impersonal descriptions of God supports this point . |
| 5 | The fact that he does not explain anything about them probably means that they were known to his audience . |
| 6 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 7 | MPs knew the Health Secretary did not listen to the patients or the nurses and doctors , he said , but ‘ at least we can seek reassurance in the fact that he does n't pay a blind bit of notice to what his own department is saying either ’ . |
| 8 | On another level , on a completely different level the book is about Freud 's attempt in my erm in the second edition of I used the analogy of a detective story like Sherlock Holmes or something , or something er i i it , it 's an attempt by Freud to reconstruct specific historical events that may or may not have happened , using a kind of detective 's method because Freud picks up tiny little clues like Moses ' name , the fact that he does n't appear to be able to speak the language in the Bible , he always speaks through an interpreter , and in the Bible this , this is explained away by saying . |
| 9 | ‘ He might discuss some business matters with my father , for whom he has a tremendous respect , but apart from the fact that he does n't live at Parkwood any more he never boasts . ’ |
| 10 | It 's the modern practice that Shylock dominate any version of ‘ Merchant , ’ whatever the interpretation , despite the fact that he appears in only five of 20 scenes . |
| 11 | The fact that he has also been of service to AIM is a bonus . |
| 12 | Seems reasonable , except for the fact that he has n't cut the mortises for the mullions . |
| 13 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 14 | The gas fire I have formed a really deep and meaningful relationship with Andy at Anglia Gas he 's been back and forth to my house , I know all about the fact that he has n't got a girlfriend and his mother is a marvellous cook and that Worlingworth is a bit off the map he and I are buddies , dear ! |
| 15 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |
| 16 | His position at the Spanish Embassy , the fact that he has only worked occasionally and as a freelance . |
| 17 | My hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North ( Mr. Speller ) began by drawing attention to the fact that he has always been generous in his praise of the constituency record of Jeremy Thorpe . |
| 18 | Gone are the days when guys thought it was girlie to be groomed , the new man of the 90's makes a noise about the fact that he knows how to look good and what 's more these guys now have more beautifying products than old socks ! |
| 19 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 20 | The garment is so peculiar that we might dismiss it as a quirk of the rhyton carver 's imagination , but for the fact that it features again on a seal impression from Agia Triadha , where the rhyton also originated . |
| 21 | It is a beautiful and very moving story , marred only by the fact that it does not bear the remotest resemblance to what actually happens . |
| 22 | Here the two sentences are linked because they follow the grammatical pattern , definite article + proper noun + copula + complement , a link whose purely formal nature is revealed by the fact that it does not really survive translation into English , where the definite articles are not needed and an indefinite one is . |
| 23 | The strong correlation between characterization and prenominal position , and " occasion " use and postnominal position also falls naturally into place , as well as the fact that it does not amount to a complete correspondence . |
| 24 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 25 | The nul curriculum exists by reason of the fact that it does not exist — it is what is conveyed by omission , avoidance , bypassing , as well as by ridiculing , criticizing , and putting-down . |
| 26 | But the great thing about The Virtuoso ( 1676 ) , which the RSC has brought to light almost 300 years after its last professional performance , is the very fact that it does n't deviate into sense . |
| 27 | Our only means of escape is alcohol , and I keep off that pretty much ; but I ca n't say I blame chaps for getting drunk ( apart from the fact that it does n't do you any good ) , for few of them take any interest in books . |
| 28 | The fact that it does n't cause you immense emotional pain does n't mean you 're not committed to it . |
| 29 | Ignoring the fact that it does n't seem to have much harm to British Telecommunications Plc or to the UK , France 's Minister for Posts & Telecommunications , Emile Zuccarelli , says that privatising France Telecom would hurt the company , its users and the entire nation : he particularly worries about service in sparsely-populated areas , a problem that appears to have been satisfactorily solved by regulation in the UK market ; privatisation of France Telecom is anyway not on the agenda of Valery Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 30 | From the fact that it leads on to all sorts of other questions , we can reasonably infer that many of the justifications given in the literature are indeed question-begging . |