Example sentences of "fact [that] [pron] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 2 | It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters . |
| 3 | Not just the nudity of the girls , or their poses , but the fact that nobody was looking at them , except herself . |
| 4 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 5 | Whitney and Hughes both took four wickets , and all 10 wickets fell to catches , as in the Australian first innings : only once previously ( WI v India , Bridgetown , 1982–83 ) have the first 20 wickets in a Test fallen to catches , and the eventual 33 catches in this match was a new Test record ( as was the fact that no-one was bowled — a first for a completed Test ) . |
| 6 | ‘ The criticism we are getting and the fact that everybody is writing us off does n't bother us a bit . |
| 7 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 8 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 9 | The fact that everyone was waving tiny American flags made this spectacle of labour all the more bizarre . |
| 10 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |
| 11 | This would appear to reflect the fact that what was learned , and from whom it was learned , was considerably more important than where it was learned . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact that we 're sneaking up is one factor , ’ said Gibson . |
| 13 | What other factors , there 's a big , this fact that we 're missing , alright , rising population , improvements in transport and technology , what else has happened over the last hundred years ? |
| 14 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 15 | But they may find it difficult , they must feel like they 've lost their dignity , the fact that we 're washing them . |
| 16 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 17 | Erm and the fact that we 're making over sixty per cent margin i is good business for us in such Okay it 's only twenty K , but potentially longer term when the recovery comes , they 're gon na be |
| 18 | Hirst admitted he was slightly disturbed by the bid at the time , but now says : ‘ The fact that we 're playing Manchester United means nothing special to me , nothing at all . |
| 19 | Taylor said : ‘ We have to face up to the fact that we 're falling behind other countries who do things regarding fitness as a matter of course . ’ |
| 20 | the , the authorities are , or the employers , are gon na gain from the fact that we 're gon na be a new union that at first we 're gon na be trying you know to you know you 've got to walk before you run , have n't we ? |
| 21 | I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry I 've been a bit steady getting there , but I think it 's an important issue to tackle that , quality is horses for courses and we have to accept the fact that we 're gon na get prestige type jobs and quick slick jobs , especially in the beginning of March every year . |
| 22 | When it comes to an announce the fact that we 're gon na have er er council elections , how many people come out and vote for your councillors and put them in ? |
| 23 | Savour erm , the problem , why , why , I do n't think any of you grasped the fact that we 're talking there about savour , is that erm , you probably do n't realise that historically , the rose was much eaten . |
| 24 | I hope that in the time of the consultation they actually begin to take on board the fact that we 're talking about human beings . |
| 25 | Mr Mr I think it 's implicit in our own nature and in our own character and a known fact that we are constituted here as a general assembly and we indeed ascribe to that and I do n't think we need to affirm it on a lower level of what is in fact the very standard of our existence here er in a general assembly . |
| 26 | The very fact that we are considering aspects of animal welfare suggests that we are now heading in the right direction . |
| 27 | I draw the hon. Gentleman 's attention to the fact that we are debating an amendment to the motion on the Queen 's Speech . |
| 28 | Absolutely not , I think there 's a strong sense in the Party that moving forward with our traditional values , that what we have to do is to apply those traditional values to a very changed world , things are very different now from when the Labour Party was formed , or even from when the Labour Party was last in government , so that we keep our sense of values , they are what grounds us , but what makes us an effective government in the future is the fact that we are moving forward with the times , and the increasing representation of women is one of the things which is about moving us forward , and moving with the times . |
| 29 | I believe in fact that we are experiencing a ‘ renationalisation ’ of art history . |
| 30 | The fact that we are providing the services for Wiltshire , that they were providing , and we 're providing them for less money , is surely something to be applauded . |