Example sentences of "the fact that [pron] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't affect the fact that they contain some wonderfully joyous music , especially in the First , the one on this CD . |
| 2 | It is because of the fact that they total to four , and so include the fourth , climactic one , that Yahweh 's punishment falls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The record should include not only the fact that they mate regularly but also that matings are fertile . |
| 5 | Part of the reason for doing it is is we can actually say we did it , so we can tell people despite the fact that they get the programme . |
| 6 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 7 | Comprehensively equipped with electric windows ( one touch up and down for the driver ) , central locking power mirrors and so on , the finish reflects the fact that they take a bit of trouble up in Sunderland . |
| 8 | Evidently such individuals can be said to exist , despite the fact that they lack the independence of ordinary things — they can not exist on their own . |
| 9 | The extraordinary proximity of All Saints and St. John 's is explained by the fact that they form the neck of the bull . |
| 10 | They are alike in that both form part of a single entity-identifier ; this is reflected in surface syntax by the fact that they form part of the same noun phrase as their head noun . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's just down to the fact that they make extremely good records . |
| 12 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 13 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 14 | If you say that children are completely non-rational then you have to account for the fact that they become rational , and to do that it appears from these examples that you have to assume that they already are . |
| 15 | The misleadingly alarming appearance of our conclusions results from the fact that they show that where conformity is called for it is based only some of the time , and less often than is often imagined , on the legitimate authority of the government , and often on other considerations . |
| 16 | Trade figures , despite the fact that they show a sustained increase in the volume of exports , tell a particularly sad story of relative decline for a once dominant trading nation . |
| 17 | The fact that they show little grief does not mean they are unmoved , but they may have been less inclined than are many women to see their relationship with their partner as the fulcrum of their lives . |
| 18 | The fact that they replicate , together with certain further conditions means , willy nilly , that they will tend towards the evolution of qualities which , in the special sense of this book , can be called selfish . |
| 19 | ‘ And it 's not just the pace of the serves that does it , it 's also the fact that they go so close to the line . ’ |
| 20 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 21 | Nonconformists ' ‘ strength and … weakness ’ he claimed , ‘ lie in the fact that they tend to reflect contemporary social and political movements ’ . |
| 22 | They often eat weeds and weed seeds and their economy of intake is illustrated by the fact that they consume their own droppings . |
| 23 | Eugene Malou and Frank Friedmaier are far more interesting than the people by whom they are condemned : the fact that they come to sticky ends is Simenon 's fig-leaf , his nod in the direction of conventional morality . |
| 24 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 25 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 26 | The fact that they 've chosen to have somebody representing them in objection to the new settlement proposal I think is as strong an indication as you can get that the local people do n't actually support the council on this point . |
| 27 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 28 | Very confusing and the fact that they 've stuck that label on there does n't help very much either . |
| 29 | Oh yes you mean the fact that they 've been in flower ? |
| 30 | Well I do n't know whether they 'd get it but they do n't want to upset people , the fact that they 've been really inconvenienced by not having it does n't seem to come into their thinking . |