Example sentences of "the fact that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 2 | That does n't affect the fact that they contain some wonderfully joyous music , especially in the First , the one on this CD . |
| 3 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 4 | It was a disastrous night for Andy Roxburgh 's men , despite the fact that they went in at half-time all square at 1-1 . |
| 5 | The pervasive nature of torture , disappearance and killings and the fact that they went unpunished suggests that these violations were officially sanctioned . |
| 6 | Certainly men at the central station boasted proudly of the fact that they took more prisoners per year than any other division in the whole force . |
| 7 | ‘ The record company is used to dealing with rock and roll , ’ says Nicky , ‘ and the fact that they took a chance reflects really well on them . |
| 8 | I was very apprehensive and the fact that they took away the radio at the same time made our suspicions worse . |
| 9 | It is because of the fact that they total to four , and so include the fourth , climactic one , that Yahweh 's punishment falls . |
| 10 | The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth . |
| 11 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 12 | The fact that they carried out substantially more searches ( 2350 ) for very similar revenues suggests a lower level of work than their rivals . |
| 13 | In this study we found a good agreement between the two tests , particularly considering the fact that they measure two different variables — namely , bile acid losses and bile acid synthesis . |
| 14 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 15 | The fact that they had not fought about it should have announced their despair . |
| 16 | What mattered to Marx and Engels was therefore not so much the specific history which had produced these concepts , but the fact that they had a history at all , that the concepts were dependent on the type of society and economy in which they occurred . |
| 17 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 18 | There was more than a touch of arrogance to the assumption , and clashes with governments , who could at least point to the fact that they had been elected , were inevitable . |
| 19 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | I felt that it was too easy for what were essentially white women 's publishers culling some short stories and poems from Blackwomen and then hailing the fact that they had published x-dozen Blackwomen writers . |
| 21 | The fact that they had contentious articles written with a fearless pungency seems to have been due to his joint editorship of both . |
| 22 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 23 | The fact that they had brought these missiles with them showed their aggressive intentions . |
| 24 | When late in 1972 Richard Leakey announced he had dug up the skull , thighbone , and parts of the lower leg of a human that were more than 2 ½ million years old , thus , if correct , disproving man 's direct descent from Australopithecus , many anthropologists seated in leather armchairs in universities not immediately adjacent to East Africa swiftly challenged Leakey 's conclusions , this despite the fact that they had not examined the bones in question , the strata in and near which they had been found , the animal bones found in the same strata , or indeed anything . |
| 25 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that they had stopped their car , neither of the Shepherds seemed to care how she was , or whether she had done herself any harm sleep-walking up to the Monument . |
| 27 | But the fact that they had supposed this at all suggests some appreciation of cattle-raiding 's implicit purpose . |
| 28 | His view that the accountants in the earlier case owed a duty of care was based on the fact that they had actual knowledge of the plaintiff 's intended and actual reliance on the accounts that they were to prepare . |
| 29 | The dazibao writers regretted the fact that they had to resort to this medium for making their opinions known . |
| 30 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |