Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to blame the pressure of daily life and the stress it causes for the fact that we do not feel as well as we should like — and , indeed , in many cases an excess of stress and tension may be the cause . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 4 | Stroud ( 1984 , ch. 2 ) considers a similar argument against the sceptic 's attempt to generalize from the fact that we do not know we are not brains in a vat . |
| 5 | The traffic implications of what is proposed are enormous , and I hope that British Rail and the Government will take cognisance of the fact that we do not want to create around King 's Cross a traffic jam far worse than anything that we have to put up with at present . |
| 6 | And we do know , that when we 're negotiating in Europe , the fact that we do not negotiate as the er , Portuguese , the Spanish , the Germans , negotiate , as a regional government , it means that we carry less clout , and that is a fact of European life . |
| 7 | Despite the fact that we do n't hear so much about AIDS these days the problems are increasing . |
| 8 | The fact that we do n't require the evidence of God 's existence to be overwhelming does not mean that we require no evidence of God 's existence at all . |
| 9 | ‘ I hope something will be done now your programme has highlighted the fact that we do n't have to conform . ’ |
| 10 | We never talk about it : we never talk about anything though so the fact that we do n't talk about that does n't mean much . |
| 11 | So that there is a measure of the bias and the flat distribution is a measure of er erm the fact that we do n't have an estimator that 's got this minimum variants property right . |
| 12 | erm possibly that I would have emphasized er the fact that we do n't do quote fact to fact selling |
| 13 | Erm you see it 's it 's balancing that between the fact that we do n't |
| 14 | Would er my honourable friend agree with me that one of the reasons why we 've come out of the recession so well is the fact that we do n't have a social contract and . |
| 15 | We also mentioned the fact that we do n't go round the sun in exactly three hundred and sixty five days . |
| 16 | One is bound up with the fact that we do indeed suppose that there is some set of types of circumstances , each type related in the same way to startings-to-work of the wipers . |
| 17 | That 's the basic idea and the fact that we do actually learn , becomes less mysterious . |
| 18 | First , a variety of offences are deemed arrestable despite the fact that they do not fit into this general rule . |
| 19 | Recognizing the fact that they do not seem to be enjoying their children and are missing the fun of childhood can be one way into helping them realize the value of a positive approach . |
| 20 | On top of this , inevitably but it seems rather unfairly , they have to deal with the problem that faces every teacher in a new school : the fact that they do not know its geography , its structure and its rules , both explicit and unwritten , nor do they have a chance to get to know the personalities and quirks of more than a handful of either pupils or teachers . |
| 21 | Those people benefit from the fact that they do not have to make national insurance contributions . |
| 22 | The Government are dragooning their troops to push the Bill through the House despite the fact that they do not have the faintest idea how they or British Rail will pay for it . |
| 23 | Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions . |
| 24 | Nuclear power and hydropower — controversial because of their adverse impacts on the environment despite the fact that they do not produce significant quantities of greenhouse gases — are also recommended as substitutes for fossil fuels . |
| 25 | UK Property Unit Trusts are ‘ unauthorised ’ in that they do not have to be authorised by the DTI because of the fact that they do not deal with the general public ( major investors being pension funds and charities ) . |
| 26 | A question I would ask is that given the product which you had in June and the fact that presumably you have to take what goes , presumably the fact that they do n't send you the strongest stuff erm are you surprised that the figures were down in view of the quality of what you had , or are you surprised it might not have been worse ? |
| 27 | Non-impact printers obtain their name from the fact that they do n't hammer needles or shaped pieces of metal through a ribbon in order to leave their mark on a piece of paper . |
| 28 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |
| 29 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 30 | Now is , is the fact that they do n't do that , they still go for this rent and interest rate reduction is it because of the experience of the north , they found that the best way in the north was to go for rent reduction , interest rate reduction and then go on , and they were simply taking that experience into the south , but taking it into a different area where it was no longer necessary or appropriate ? |