Example sentences of "fact that it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6.7 ) unc ( 6.8 ) unc The law for PAR takes into account the fact that , when a declaration is moved outside the constructor , the process that uses it must now declare the fact that it might want to use the variable declared . |
| 2 | The IBOA has serious difficulties with the proposed changes outlined in view of the fact that it would involve additional costs to our membership . |
| 3 | Pigeons clock-shifted 6 hours forward should behave as if they had been taken west : a pigeon , for example , clock-shifted 6 hours in a loft at Rome and then released at midday would think that the time at home was 6.00 p.m. , deduce that it had been moved to New York , and therefore home by flying east ( if we ignore the fact that it would recognize local landmarks ) . |
| 4 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 5 | Does he accept that one of the reasons for the United Kingdom 's continued possession of a strategic deterrent was the fact that it would provide another centre of power , and thus create disequilibrium in the mind of a potential foe ? |
| 6 | There may arise circumstances in which a doctor may use a form of treatment for his patient 's benefit aware of the fact that it may have the secondary effect of accelerating ( or run the risk of accelerating ) the patient 's death . |
| 7 | The fact that it may have been provided by the member , not the society , and produced by an independent surveyor , not an employee of the society , merely shows , as conceded , that it is not in those cases action taken by the society . |
| 8 | Except , of course , for the fact that it may take some while before the matter particle falls into the black hole — in which case the Universe has a temporary and minor energy surplus . |
| 9 | This is a manifestation of what Freud meant by the chaos of the id — the fact that it can contain within itself contradictory and mutually excluding instinctual drives without ever registering any distortion . |
| 10 | If multimedia has a future , it has nothing to do with the fact that it can do clever things . |
| 11 | Starting with 30 monitoring points , the system offers massive flexibility due to the fact that it can substitute two wires , punctuated by individually programmed chips , for the massive bunch of wires which would be needed by a conventional system . |
| 12 | A plant 's mode of existence is shaped by the fact that it can survive , biochemically , by making use of the sun 's energy to trap carbon dioxide and convert it to the foodstuffs , such as sugar , that it requires . |
| 13 | The IWC is not required to work for more humane killing methods , but it can do so by virtue of the fact that it can recommend particular catching methods that are better than others . |
| 14 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that it can seem at times as if half the figures on the red benches are comatose — a chastened Lady ( Barbara ) Wootton concluded after eight years in the place that at any one time about ten per cent of the participants in a debate were fast asleep — the quality of argument can be incomparably higher than in the House of Commons , and the pool of expertise available from the ennobled professors , judges , generals and bureaucrats makes for more informed contributions . |
| 16 | The thing is , the machine tool industry or super precision requirements be become use and take for granted a noise specification , the fact that it must run quietly . |
| 17 | The fact that it will rain tomorrow , for example , may mean that I should not go to London , even though the balance of reasons on the merits of my going ( i.e. all the reasons pro and con but the rain ) suggest that I should go . |
| 18 | For ma , accepting the fact that it will rain today seems as difficult as coming to terms with the amputation of a limb . |
| 19 | While there is no evidence of such practices being widespread in the country , the fact that it could happen in the main prison in the capital of India was a matter of scandal . |
| 20 | Yes , she had recognised pride as an intrinsic component of his personal make-up , and the fact that it could permit him to ignore or override her resistance , her hostility , her hatred , was probably the true measure of his confidence in her ultimate surrender . |
| 21 | However , larger companies like Ford have also woken up to the fact that it could help them build small runs of specialist cars — the Ford RS200 for example — cheaply and quickly , which gave the movement momentum . |
| 22 | It is the fact that it could turn into science , and promote a beguiling vision of mastery over nature , that has forced historians to reconsider the usual antithesis between occult and rational mentalities . |
| 23 | When I did manage to follow it , I was stunned by the fact that it could gain such a good speed although it was flying without putting any apparent effort into beating its wings . |
| 24 | The court should take account of the fact that it could minimize the delay by setting a timetable for the action . |
| 25 | The impropriety was not , it is to be assumed , the expression of this arguably valid assessment of the political talents of Messrs Maudling , Butler , and Hogg , but the fact that it should have been revealed to the general public . |