Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allowing for the fact that one knows oneself to be above suspicion — has any action or attitude of one 's own been such as to inspire suspicion in others ? |
| 2 | The fact that nobody noticed him , let alone the flowers , did not give him ease of conscience , but that was what he sought . |
| 3 | But that still boils down to the fact that everybody thinks they know how schools work cos they 've been at school themselves . |
| 4 | Anyway , please could you thank GEORGE most sincerely for his endeavours — the fact that everyone pulls their weight up there ensures the place runs at minimal cost to all users . |
| 5 | The difficulty lay in the fact that what characterized their view of primitive society was that it was classless and free of exploitation , while the Marxist theory of society is built around the idea of class . |
| 6 | It gives credibility to the particular choice we as a self-defining ‘ human ’ group have made , and reinforces the validity of that choice by obscuring the fact that we make it voluntarily , rather than have it imposed on us by scientific laws which are unquestionable and necessary . |
| 7 | ‘ It does annoy me that the fact that we make it funny somehow demeans the play . ’ |
| 8 | United will by extra-motivated by the fact that we knocked them out of the Coca-Cola Cup , and Robbo 's return . |
| 9 | What I would say is that we endeavour to counteract that on the reasons that I 've stated , by virtue of the fact that we invite them to read the policy . |
| 10 | It 's a luxury though , I mean you know , you do n't need it , the fact that we got one for Christmas it was very nice , but |
| 11 | What made it fun on the night was the fact that we knew what we were doing . |
| 12 | Our hobby , and the fact that we fund it ourselves , is something to be proud of . |
| 13 | They often eat weeds and weed seeds and their economy of intake is illustrated by the fact that they consume their own droppings . |
| 14 | The deviousness and deceitfulness of tobacco advertising , promotion and sponsorship activities which are directed at children lie in the fact that they tell them that one must be healthy and have lung function of 120 per cent . |
| 15 | I mean they there was a fact that they knew you were unemployed er or was n't in any s You were yours yourself a target . |
| 16 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 17 | ‘ The judge granted AMD a new trial based on the fact that they claimed they did n't see a Business Wire report when we announced that we sued them , ’ Intel general counsel Tom Dunlap told Reuters . |
| 18 | I 'm left with the fact that they knock me up in the middle of the night , turn my place over , give me a hard time , then just forget about it all . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 20 | Several guests had difficulty hiding the fact that they found her charges cheap ( though they were not cheap by Italian standards ) . |
| 21 | Solidarity with Southern nationalists is still a major Northern nationalist perception , despite the fact that they view their Southern compatriots at best with indifference and at worst as traitors who sold them out to the loyalists . |
| 22 | The unmistakeable inference was that , Jess and McLaren apart , the young will be left to take advantage of the fact that they have plenty of time . |
| 23 | What it means as I said before , is that ten or fifteen years ago , that number of people got infected , so now ten fifteen years on , we usually multiply by at least a hundred , so we 're really talking about thousands of people living with H I V , and probably unaware of the fact that they have it . |
| 24 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 25 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 26 | The Croats point to the fact that they retained their own chief executive — the ban ; their own assembly , the Sabor ; and their own judicial system . |
| 27 | ‘ I blame it on the fact that someone linked me with the US government , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Their past experience enabled them to produce and maintain their own equipment , and operate it with competence , but the fact that none had themselves initiated any of the significant developments in filmmaking or projects was an early indication of their unpreparedness for serious competition . |
| 29 | It was only the lingering aroma of his cologne and the rumpled sheets that betrayed the fact that he spent his nights lying beside her . |
| 30 | He 's telling the tale from his bed , all about the fact that he asked his wife if before the end he could see another woman from his past . |