Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neale was rated 9,9 by his team members , a fact that he acknowledges with appropriate diffidence . |
| 2 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 3 | ‘ Is it the fact that he rambles on that bores you , or the fact that you do n't want to talk about what life 's about ? ’ |
| 4 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 5 | In this way Foucault could be said to be returning to Marx in removing the subject from the centre of history , were it not for the fact that he dispenses with the consolations of Marx 's historicism also . |
| 6 | Is he under a fiduciary obligation to disclose to shareholders with whom he intends to trade , the fact that he holds inside information ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The more effects you use the more you lose the original signal of the guitar and I like the fact that it sounds like a guitar and it sounds really twangy . |
| 9 | The first totally synthetic plastic , it was successful due to the fact that it hardens on heating and can therefore be used for items such as hairdryers and heaters . |
| 10 | ‘ We precipitated the 13 October thing ’ , stated the occupiers , ‘ because we dispute the fact that It belongs to , or is owned by , anyone , or any small group of people . ’ |
| 11 | The value of Black 's theory lies in the fact that it allows for a conception of metaphor as the interaction between two discourses , but like Goodman 's concept of imperial appropriation , it has overtones of subjugation . |
| 12 | Consequently , whilst corporate crime can not be understood without grasping the fact that it stems from contradictions between a corporation 's goal(s) and its environment , that understanding remains one-sided if individuals are left out of the analysis . |
| 13 | Since the 1920s concern has been expressed over the fact that it tends to be the younger and better qualified people who are 51 leaving the less dynamic North , thus undermining the ability of the latter to rejuvenate itself . |
| 14 | And finally Eldorado ( 6.39 million ) : This ill-fated soap is rising despite the fact that it ends in July . |
| 15 | Its theoretical weaknesses are implicit in the fact that it rests on the vague and easily manipulated notion of consent . |
| 16 | A general account of nomic connection is an aim of philosophy but no more an aim of science , despite the fact that it rests on such connection , than , say , a general theory of prosody is an aim of poets . |
| 17 | This is the approach taken in Thru where ‘ concrete prose ’ is used to exploit the possibilities of the printed word , creating a text that is ‘ unspeakable ’ by virtue of the fact that it relies on visual as well as auditory performance . |
| 18 | Howard might well have been impressed by the importance given to classification by TDC , despite the fact that it seems to be unfashionable in western European administrations . |
| 19 | ‘ This whole analysis will derive from one simple proposition , namely that the distinguishing characteristic of adjudication lies in the fact that it confers on the affected party a peculiar form of participation in the decision , that of presenting proofs and reasoned arguments for a decision in his favour . |
| 20 | Another method of identification has recently become more widely accepted , in spite of the fact that it needs to be implanted surgically by a vet , although this is a relatively minor procedure . |
| 21 | Development at Scott Lithgow could be hampered by the fact that it lies on unimproved land outside the Inverclyde Enterprise Zone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The second sentence is perfectly unexceptionable apart from the fact that it appears to be in flat contradiction of the first : involuntary unemployment is a ‘ theoretical construct ’ — surely theoretical constructs fall within the purview of economic theory ! — which was developed to explain the very real and painful phenomenon of large-scale unemployment . |
| 25 | Their opportunities , their perception of their opportunities , and their choices among their opportunities must all be determined by the complex whole , as must the fact that a ruling class opts for a particular ideology , and the fact that it opts for any justificatory ideology . |
| 26 | A relation is said to be transitive if the fact that it holds between two elements A and B , and also between B and some third element C , guarantees that it holds between A and C. The relation ’ — is longer than — ’ is thus transitive , because if A is longer than B , and B is longer than C , we can be sure that A is longer than C. In the case of an intransitive relation , on the other hand , the fact that it held between A and B , and between B and C , would entail that it did not hold between A and C. For instance , if A were the father of B , and B the father of C , then A could not be the father of C ; the relation ’ — father of — ’ is thus intransitive . |
| 27 | More impressive than the print quality , though , is the fact that it comes in a smaller , faster box at no extra cost . |
| 28 | Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she minds about my being illegitimate . ’ |