Example sentences of "by the fact [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 2 | A university education should be characterised by the fact that one ‘ learns to learn ’ rather than ‘ learns by being taught ’ . |
| 3 | It is a technically very difficult problem compounded by the fact that one has no idea of what to look for , and the quantities may be minute . |
| 4 | This admittedly circuitous line of reasoning is made necessary first by the undoubted presence of anachronisms in the Kanunname , as demonstrated by Dilger , and second by the fact that one does not meet the terms and in Taskopruzade , who is , of course , the principal , and indeed almost the only , source of information about the learned hierarchy before roughly 1550 . |
| 5 | Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped . |
| 6 | This approach was partly dictated by the committee 's terms of reference , which required it to take ‘ account of resource assumptions and other guidance which the Secretary of State … may give , ’ and by the fact that its secretariat was provided by the Department of Health 's Medical Manpower Executive . |
| 7 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 8 | When one thinks that in France the present generation has seen neither court gowns nor a ceremony of this sort and that , with very few exceptions , the ladies of high society do not come to the Tuileries , one is struck by the fact that everything should pass off so well and without lending itself to too much mockery . |
| 9 | This sounds very bland but in practice it is complicated by the fact that what is nice for one person is nasty for another and vice versa . |
| 10 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The listing of pubs is made more difficult by the fact that they have almost always been altered . |
| 13 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 14 | But an increasing number , typified by the conservative Heritage Foundation , define themselves above all by the fact that they hold a coherent body of ideas , and want to spread them . |
| 15 | Secondly , this decline in fertility did occur in depressed industrial towns and among industrial groups whose prospects of unemployment were high and whose access to the ‘ acquisitive way of life ’ must have been limited by the fact that they were receiving some form of unemployment or health benefit and struggling to survive . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Bacteria can show ‘ learning ’ by the fact that they move in response to a chemical gradient , but this is clearly different from the memory capacity of higher animals and man . |
| 18 | Because the doubters were bound , by the fact that they were subject to the authority of Parliament , to follow Parliament 's judgment as to what their duties were , its Act is not merely dependent on those duties but also pre-empts them . |
| 19 | This coincided with their belief that the ordinary person wished to travel from and arrive at great palaces which , with their concourses , restaurants , shops , information centres , medical facilities , theatres , and ( later ) cinemas constituted virtually civic centres or forums , an impression heightened by the fact that they were often also used for political speeches . |
| 20 | Their significance was enhanced by the fact that they were often far from the towns whose names they bore . |
| 21 | The success of these names is shown by the fact that they have been admired by Chinese scholars such as Dr Lin Yutang , Dr Cheng Te-K'un , Dr Hollington Tong and others . |
| 22 | Marsh Jones , Border , Moody and Mark Waugh seemed fazed by the fact that they could no longer employ the speed of the normal opposition of medium-pacers to run the ball behind the wicket . |
| 23 | The analysis of labour markets is complicated further by the fact that they can be defined by reference to one or more of a number of characteristics . |
| 24 | They often eat weeds and weed seeds and their economy of intake is illustrated by the fact that they consume their own droppings . |
| 25 | The analysis of such accidents is also bedevilled by the fact that they are scattered widely through residential areas , with few clusters or ‘ black-spots ’ in evidence . |
| 26 | When the House of Commons considered the matter in 1953 , its views were affected by the fact that they were unaware of any evidence of pressure for change from the churches themselves . |
| 27 | But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything . |
| 28 | They are not , accordingly , as assertive as to wage and other claims as would be local workers , and their assertiveness is further tempered by the fact that they are not , with some progressive exceptions , voting and participating citizens . |
| 29 | The extraordinary proximity of All Saints and St. John 's is explained by the fact that they form the neck of the bull . |
| 30 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |