Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why was ‘ Togetherness ’ proving so difficult to achieve , despite the fact that everybody believed in it ? |
| 2 | But he does n't acknowledge , and what , this is what I find concerning , the fact that we have in some areas of the county , amalgamated schools into a new school , West Grinstead and Alderbury for example , and taken surplus places out . |
| 3 | The fact that we stayed in it for four seasons was not a little due to the . |
| 4 | Precise definition of what is and is not a legitimate purpose is probably not possible , but the fact that we live in a competitive or acquisitive society has led English law , for better or worse , to adopt the test of self-interest or selfishness as being capable of justifying the deliberate doing of lawful acts which inflict harm . |
| 5 | I think that we look very favourably on schemes whereby an education process is involved erm where there are workshops and performance , but it becomes a total package in itself — it 's not just a performance for an ethnic minority , but it 's one that represents the fact that we live in a multi-cultural society itself . |
| 6 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 7 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |
| 8 | Housing is a basic need and it is therefore to be expected that the lower income groups will pay a higher proportion of their income to meet housing costs than the higher income groups , in spite of the fact that they live in less adequate accommodation . |
| 9 | The fact that they occur in shales without other benthic remains makes it very likely that they were free floating , and this is consistent with the way some of the species were constructed . |
| 10 | In principle , however , the public law nature of the SROs ' rules and the fact that they operate in an integrated way with the SIB 's rules should mean that a court is able to take the same approach to the interpretation of both the SROs ' and the SIB 's rules . |
| 11 | Bacteria can show ‘ learning ’ by the fact that they move in response to a chemical gradient , but this is clearly different from the memory capacity of higher animals and man . |
| 12 | The fact that he died in the following April does not seem to have put anyone off or taken away their faith in Pau 's salutariness . |
| 13 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 14 | For an actor , admission of homosexuality was tantamount to professional suicide , so it was necessary for Clift to hide the fact that he fell in love with men . |
| 15 | The main result that emerges from such an existential self-analysis is that man owes his understanding of the meaning of being to the fact that he exists in an object-transcending manner , and is therefore able to conceive of the possibility of nothingness , i.e. of the world not existing at all . |
| 16 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 17 | And finally Eldorado ( 6.39 million ) : This ill-fated soap is rising despite the fact that it ends in July . |
| 18 | Prior approval is not required ( except in SSSIs and National Parks in the UK , but then not from the Agriculture Department ) and in assessing schemes financially , MAFF has disregarded the fact that it has in the past contributed 50–70% of the scheme 's cost and that a high proportion of the profit to be earned is public money in the form of HLCAs . |
| 19 | So the meaning of a sign consists in the bare fact that it stands in an external causal relation to that which we say it signifies . |
| 20 | More impressive than the print quality , though , is the fact that it comes in a smaller , faster box at no extra cost . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't broadcast the fact that I live in a castle . |
| 22 | So , the fact that who works in the green grocers is just a bit of additional information , it 's not necessary for the the main part of the sentence , you can take it out and it 's not going to take , make any difference to the construction or the meaning of the sentence , it 's a bit of additional information . |
| 23 | For these reasons , an analysis of the so-called ‘ uneven playing-field ’ in Europe does not need to dwell for too long on the fact that there remains in many countries a low level of compliance with the rules . |