Example sentences of "fact [conj] he be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 2 | Later , Hexam finds Radfoot 's body , which owing to his likeness to Harmon and the fact that he is dressed in Harmon 's clothes is identified as his . |
| 3 | I am sure that to conceal from a child the fact that he is adopted is both foolish and cruel . |
| 4 | Did the fact that he is accompanied by a doctor on the campaign trail help to lose him last week 's TV showdown with Clinton ? |
| 5 | The fact that he is paid by S1 is irrelevant because of the application of Sch 6 para 10(2) , which states that emoluments include all relevant sums paid by or receivable from the company 's subsidiary undertakings and any other person . |
| 6 | In order to decide whether this is so , account must be taken , not only of the fact that the worker is employed on board a vessel registered in the member state in question , but also of other circumstances , such as the fact that he is in the employ of a company incorporated under the law of that state and established there , or the fact that he was hired in that state and that the employment relationship between him and his employer is subject to the law of the flag state , or the fact that he is insured under the social security system of that state and pays income tax there : see pp. 3009–3010 , paras . |
| 7 | Indeed , through the fact that he is spoken of as though there present , something different is being said of Christ than of anyone else . |
| 8 | Much of a regulatory enforcement agent 's behaviour is moulded by the fact that he is confronted with organizational activity , where the policeman is typically concerned with individuals or groups . |
| 9 | He waited until he had collected a large number of observations of the fact that he was fed at 9 a.m. , and he made these observations under a wide variety of circumstances , on Wednesdays and Thursdays , on warm days and cold days , on rainy days and dry days . |
| 10 | Does not President Christiani of El Salvador deserve widespread support , bearing in mind the fact that he was elected by the people of that country and that he has to cope with the violence of unruly military officers and also the murderous activities of the Farabundi Marti Front for the Liberation of the Nation ? |
| 11 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that he was stabbed in the back by a child really hurt us . ’ |
| 13 | An expert who does not ensure that the question of fees and expenses is determined in advance might , if the question were subsequently disputed , have to sue both to establish the fact that he was owed money ( either as a matter of contract or quantum meruit ) and to justify the amount . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that he was born in the Auvergne in 539 , Gregory was still unable to provide an accurate account of what took place in Clermont in the 520s and 530s ; moreover he was thoroughly confused by the whole career of Quintianus , even though the latter 's successor as bishop was Gregory 's uncle and mentor , Gallus . |
| 15 | He was unusually well rewarded and this , coupled with the fact that he was employed to seize rebel lands , strongly suggests that he had been associated with Richard before 1483 . |
| 16 | He was unusually well rewarded and this , coupled with the fact that he was employed to seize rebel lands , strongly suggests that he had been associated with Richard before 1483 . |
| 17 | The judge 's failure to apply the correct test in this respect was compounded by the fact that he was deprived of the material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion because of his failure to require that the mother be notified of the foster mother 's application for leave under rule 4.3(2) ( b ) of the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 . |
| 18 | The special relationship Finniston forged between top management and the work-force at British Steel is epitomised by the fact that he was given farewell parties by each of the seven major steelworks when he came to leave the corporation at the end of ten years . |
| 19 | She spotted the suspect in an alley between Egerton Road and Portman Road and , with typical courage , tackled him as he fled , taking no account of the fact that he was armed with a screwdriver and a knife . |
| 20 | ‘ Would the fact that he was put in as priest at Oldfield mean that Marr would have to have been known to Lord Dersingham ? ’ |
| 21 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that he was dropped from Greenpeace in 1977 for being too much of an activist , it seems that he is not blindly reckless . |
| 23 | It was a considerable tribute to his growing reputation in high official circles , and the fact that he was proposed for it by Sir John Anderson ( later Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , then permanent under-secretary at the Home Office , indicates that he already enjoyed the trust of the home departments he would henceforth be serving . |
| 24 | European observers very often exaggerated his importance , however ; and the fact that he was expected to accompany the grand vizier on campaign in wartime often drastically reduced his influence on negotiations with foreign diplomats in Constantinople . |
| 25 | Little is known about his family , and his date of birth can be inferred only from the fact that he was apprenticed to a mercer in 1528 . |
| 26 | In order to decide whether this is so , account must be taken , not only of the fact that the worker is employed on board a vessel registered in the member state in question , but also of other circumstances , such as the fact that he is in the employ of a company incorporated under the law of that state and established there , or the fact that he was hired in that state and that the employment relationship between him and his employer is subject to the law of the flag state , or the fact that he is insured under the social security system of that state and pays income tax there : see pp. 3009–3010 , paras . |
| 27 | It was academic anyway , for just then another ominous rumble of collapsing masonry shook the foundations , peppering him with flakes of plaster from the ceiling and driving home the fact that he was trapped , with no means of escape . |