Example sentences of "fact that i be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that I am conning myself , and know it , does not , strange to say , seem to render the technique ineffective . |
| 2 | For the moment I am concentrating mostly on the fact that I am riding under the Arctic sky , a very black sky , heavily overcast , being pulled across the ice by a team of dogs . |
| 3 | On a point of order , Mr. Speaker — not related to business questions or to the fact that I am sulking or anything like that ; it is a totally different matter . |
| 4 | That is despite the fact that I am paying hundreds of pounds a year for the privilege of a so-called collection service . |
| 5 | Mum begins to notice my attachment to John , the amount of hours I am spending away from home , the fact that I am growing up and away from her , and also how much I 'm eating . |
| 6 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 7 | In view of the fact that I am walking this is somewhat academic , but it gives us a point of contact . |
| 8 | Fact that I was calling him a murderer had nothing to do with it . |
| 9 | Perhaps my slightly jaundiced view stems from the fact that I was expecting that a book based on a workshop on the physical and neuropsychological basis of music would contain some physics , or at the very least some reasonably quantitative science rather than somewhat vague speculations . |
| 10 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 11 | This has probably something to do with the fact that I was born in Belfast and lived there for 18 years . |
| 12 | These people , due to my being a prostitute , wanted me to distribute these disgusting videos and by finding this booklet which gave details and prices it pinpointed the fact that I was telling the truth . |
| 13 | Blood from my arm came streaming back into my face , in spite of the fact that I was holding the stump as tightly as I could . |
| 14 | On my way back to the surgery I brooded on the fact that I was achieving absolutely nothing with my treatment . |
| 15 | ‘ I was forced to face the fact that I was living with a woman I actually disliked and I had no one to blame but myself . |
| 16 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 17 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 18 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 19 | ‘ The fact that I was needed by him in that setting was actually very attractive , because I was important . |
| 20 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 21 | A large sketchbook especially put aside for this project allowed me to work freely , and clear my head of the fact that I was working to a commission . |
| 22 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 23 | It was n't what I was doing that was turning her on but the fact that I was doing it there , doing it then , in front of her husband and her husband 's partner and her husband 's partner 's wife and one of her own colleagues . |
| 24 | ‘ I got round them by selling to them the fact that I was doing what they wanted me to do which was to get out into the business world and make contacts . |
| 25 | It 's funny , I did n't appreciate the fact that I was putting on weight . |
| 26 | Ca n't you stand the fact that I 'm seeing you as a fallible human being instead of the flawless cardboard cut-out you like to pretend to be ? ’ |
| 27 | It 's not the appointments that matter , it 's the activity around the appointment , the fact that I 'm gon na get up on Monday morning , I 'm gon na go training , and once I 've done that , I 've got to nip down to the library , O K , and look up that electoral role , I 've got an appointment , and then I 'm gon na go back to the office , I 'm gon na to do my mail shots and then I 'm gon na to go home , mow the lawn , have a bit of tea , and then I 'm gon na to my approaching , and then I 'm gon na go , yes , on that appointment there . |
| 28 | the very fact that I 'm sitting at university , |
| 29 | I mean I think I 've already resigned myself to the fact that I 'm going to have to do one maybe two years more before I get anything like |
| 30 | the only erm problem I had I think with the basic er terms as outlined in this document are the fact that I 'm going to be wor erm intending to work for fif at least fifty of the fifty two weeks in the year at it when of course erm certainly as we 'd already agreed on my erm business plan within the summer month from the the end of July until the beginning of September |