Example sentences of "the fact [that] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that Follow Me was designed for broadcast meant that it had to do its own presentation , as it were , for home viewers . |
| 2 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 3 | Exotic substances owed part of their prestige to their mere difference from ones available in the home environment , but even more to the fact that obtaining them from a distance might and in civilized societies normally did reflect the exercise of power . |
| 4 | This brought home to me the fact that paying lots of money for an established defender ( central ) is a massive risk . |
| 5 | But above all , we can trace each of these inferences to the facts that trigger them , namely , aspects of the form and juxtaposition of the utterances themselves , and we can go on to specify the regular principles that , given such aspects of utterances , produce the inferences in question . |