Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives credibility to the particular choice we as a self-defining ‘ human ’ group have made , and reinforces the validity of that choice by obscuring the fact that we make it voluntarily , rather than have it imposed on us by scientific laws which are unquestionable and necessary . |
| 2 | ‘ It does annoy me that the fact that we make it funny somehow demeans the play . ’ |
| 3 | Our hobby , and the fact that we fund it ourselves , is something to be proud of . |
| 4 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 5 | What it means as I said before , is that ten or fifteen years ago , that number of people got infected , so now ten fifteen years on , we usually multiply by at least a hundred , so we 're really talking about thousands of people living with H I V , and probably unaware of the fact that they have it . |
| 6 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 7 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 8 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 9 | In the light of this catalogue of achievements it was almost inevitable that Geoff should gain his second Player of the Year award from out discerning supporters , while the fact that he earned it in Palace 's most successful season of all time is a clear demonstration of both his immense value and huge contribution to our club . |
| 10 | The fact that he found it less easy to talk about such things to a young girl did not mean he was less impassioned than she was . |
| 11 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 12 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 13 | The point of this is not the trivial name involved , but the fact that I remember it so clearly . |
| 14 | The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised . |
| 15 | ( The fact that I found it offensive to have to make any such argument for human equality shows that I was working with an ethical a priori approach , but I believe that a case can be made . ) |
| 16 | The thing is that , in a day or two , the Tollemarche Advent will wake up to the fact that you wrote it . |
| 17 | But it 's a good marketing exercise the fact that you do it . |
| 18 | It is n't , you can put anything up you like , the only illegality is not applying after you 've done it , and when you apply after you 've done it , all we can do is consider the planning reasons , not the fact that you did it without permission . |
| 19 | He was blocking her exit now and was enjoying the fact that she knew it . |
| 20 | In fact her resistance to the ‘ sense ’ of the question is due to the fact that she understands it first in the context of legal discourse : ‘ She had a brief glimpse of a mediaeval bureaucrat … issuing a proclamation : ‘ From 23.59 on the 16th April 1340 , dipthongisation will be optional in the County of Kent ’ ' ( 5 ) . |
| 21 | He was shaking now , taking in the fact that she meant it , feeling his heart begin to twist and crinkle like the burning books in Fahrenheit 451 . |