Example sentences of "the fact that [pers pn] [vb -s] " 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 | Her luck lies in the fact that she possesses little to recommend except for her good looks . |
| 3 | In fact her resistance to the ‘ sense ’ of the question is due to the fact that she understands it first in the context of legal discourse : ‘ She had a brief glimpse of a mediaeval bureaucrat … issuing a proclamation : ‘ From 23.59 on the 16th April 1340 , dipthongisation will be optional in the County of Kent ’ ' ( 5 ) . |
| 4 | Germany 's economic strength derives from the fact that she saturates the EC and Eastern Europe with her exports . |
| 5 | Erm , what about the fact that she does want to er keep her looks and be fashionable then does n't she ? |
| 6 | Despite the fact that she sings about uniquely female experience , she denies having feminist leanings . |
| 7 | But whatever the case , and despite the fact that she bores me to stupefaction , I ca n't be unkind to her . ’ |
| 8 | She recognizes the fact that she loves both Paul and Bernard , but transposes this love onto the plane of the sacred and finds herself released from sexual desire . |
| 9 | It is not the fact that as soon as she arrives she wants a drink which makes her alcoholic , it is the fact that she pretends that she has n't already had one by replacing ‘ the bottle ’ and by washing ‘ out the tumbler at the sink ’ . |
| 10 | Although Linda is not the youngest child to receive a liver , the Addenbrooke 's team carried out a successful transplant on a seven-month-old baby two years ago , her size and the fact that she has received previous surgery for her condition complicated the procedure . |
| 11 | As Reyburn observes : ‘ Of course the necessity to flush ping-pong balls down the toilet rarely crops up in everyday life but the owner of a double-trap ‘ siphonic ’ can take comfort from the fact that she has the toilet for the job when it arises . ’ |
| 12 | As in Sonia 's case , the Home Office have turned down Prakesh 's application to stay in this country , saying her case has been fully considered , despite the fact that she has never been interviewed by any Home Office officials , and despite the fact that there are compassion circumstances to be considered . |
| 13 | Harry can not accept the fact that she has activities and commitments that do not directly relate to him , and keeps up a constant pressure on her to give up her job so that they can spend all their time together . |
| 14 | This criterion does not apply to the pronouns he and she ( do n't be fooled by the fact that she has more letters ; it still has only two sounds ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact that she has to live in the public eye , I mean , I would slit my wrists already . |
| 16 | The first intimation of it came out of the blue , but I can not ignore the fact that she has persisted in it . |
| 17 | To me , the fact that she has n't been heard of again in seventeen years puts a different complexion on it . |
| 18 | Betty uses the scheme once a week , although she is unhappy about the fact that she has to spend so much time getting the equipment ready . |
| 19 | The fact that she has fought back to the level that she has now attained is a tribute to the loving care , encouragement and inspiration given her by her parents . |
| 20 | She retains a liveliness of mind which is quite extraordinary under the circumstances and she still displays a keen sense of humour and a warmth of contact despite the fact that she has to use a machine . |
| 21 | I know absolutely nothing about this authoress , except for the fact that she has written many other horror stories . |
| 22 | Maybe she was just trying to cover up the fact that she minds about my being illegitimate . ’ |
| 23 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |
| 24 | Erm , and obviously the fact that she 's sent to Lowood shows that it 's |
| 25 | And er the fact that she 's obviously gone on without it was awful , when she was pregnant the second time round she did n't make a big thing of being pregnant but you could tell she was pregnant but I never quite liked to say to her just in case they had the amnio amnio whatever it is and decided not to go |
| 26 | I think that the adjective moralistic is really an unkind way of protesting at the fact that she seems to continue to be interested in moral themes which are often associated with Christianity , even if she has got rid of actual orthodox commitment to Christianity itself . |
| 27 | His refusal to construe a trust appears to rest solely on the fact that he deprecates interference of this kind in the rights of another . |
| 28 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 29 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 30 | MPs knew the Health Secretary did not listen to the patients or the nurses and doctors , he said , but ‘ at least we can seek reassurance in the fact that he does n't pay a blind bit of notice to what his own department is saying either ’ . |