Example sentences of "and the fact that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee appointed to enquire into the copper trade and mining ( 1799 ) , said in their report that copper bolts had never been considered strong enough , and that the practice of copper bottoming was stopped by about 1750 , as a result of the losses , and the fact that at one time a third of the navy was in dock under repair . |
| 2 | It is not common sense , and the fact that for most people it is one of the fundamental taken-forgranted assumptions of daily life is a measure of the tremendous success and power of the capitalist global system project . |
| 3 | There is some debate as to the omission of Lloyd 's of London from the FSA , given the nature of such recent scandals at Lloyd 's ( and the fact that to some extent these scandals prompted the FSA ) . |
| 4 | ‘ They want to cover up falling union membership and the fact that under the last Labour Government investment rose by just 13pc whereas under the Conservatives it has risen by 55pc in real terms . |
| 5 | And the fact that during our period the most rapidly industrialising countries , like Britain and Germamy , were also the great exporters of men , seemed to justify them . |
| 6 | Using the method of comparing population proportions given in Exercise 5 of Chapter 5 and the fact that about one in five twins are identical , check the assertion that the Danish Twin Registry data given in Section 16.1 show evidence of a genetic effect even for ‘ other acute infections ’ . |
| 7 | In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated . |
| 8 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 9 | The schedules proved to be acceptable , Their major drawback was length , perhaps inseparable from comprehensiveness , and the fact that in this exercise they were not integrated with normal agency practice and statutory six-monthly reviews . |
| 10 | The fact that this happens so widely and the fact that in relation to the volume and importance of the work they have to do , curriculum centres are still understaffed and under-funded indicates that there still exists a rather strange ordering of educational priorities . |
| 11 | They reflect added commercialism in the game , and the fact that in Wales various means are being sought to re-kindle public support lost in recent years . |
| 12 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
| 13 | More analytically , pluralist methods might in theory uncover conspiracy by an elite by investigating observable decisions , and the fact that in various studies they did not find evidence of narrow conspiratorial elites led pluralist community power researchers to conclude that a more flexible competitive and open system prevailed . |
| 14 | Two factors may have contributed to this : the stemming and cross-reference table , and the fact that in subject searching Okapi always showed " full " records which often contain subject headings and are more easily classifiable into relevant and non-relevant than LIBERTAS 's brief ( one- or two-line ) records or its card-like full record . |