Example sentences of "the fact [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that the project itself will call into question the notion of success and failure , my theme in the big glass , he wrote , is , after all , the calling into question of such terms as success and failure , the calling into question of such notions as project and even work . |
| 2 | The fact is that we have no option but to raise salaries . |
| 3 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 4 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 5 | The fact is that The Possessed , which can be circumstantial to a calculated fault when it chooses , in this case chooses to say nothing . |
| 6 | The fact is that in the world of switch-mode power supplies ( and it is a very large world indeed , covering PCB , mainframe computers , electronic telephone exchanges , military equipment , aerospace , and more besides ) it is rare to come across a Cuk converter . |
| 7 | For the fact is that the Christians now hold a power out of proportion to their numbers , thanks to the French . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact is that many people have made substantial personal fortunes in the last few years , and with encouragement and the lowest income tax rate for 50 years , I believe they will be prepared to acknowledge their privileged position and return to the community a portion of their good fortune . |
| 9 | The fact is that the only reasonable method of securing conviction of individuals among a rioting football mob or crowd of lager louts or gang of shoplifters is to use video . |
| 10 | Ignoring the rights and wrongs of Lord Elton 's disagreements with some of his members , the fact is that a body meant to protect investors has been overshadowed by policy rows with the investment firms which make up its membership . |
| 11 | But his shadow , Mr Gerald Kaufman , said : ‘ The fact is that what this Government has adopted is the policy of the three o'clock knock by police . ’ |
| 12 | But the fact is that the golf writers have , in the recent past , been thoroughly spoiled for choice . |
| 13 | The fact is that Mr Kinnock and his friends understand well enough not only that they could not be elected but that Britain could not be governed without some serious accommodations of the kind they now stand for . |
| 14 | Tony Visconti : ‘ The fact is that David Bowie was becoming more and more disenchanted with Pitt . |
| 15 | The fact is that projects in Japan are profitable , both for firms and investors . |
| 16 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 17 | The interest of the rest of the ‘ virtuosi ’ ( as they were known ) was a more general one in the ‘ new philosophy ’ and its aims ; for the fact is that the Royal Society provided a focus for a whole movement of thought . |
| 18 | The fact is that in some countries there is more than one party affiliated to the Socialist International . |
| 19 | The fact is that we have entered here upon the theatre of the absurd , as well as the stage of the miraculous . |
| 20 | Notwithstanding the reservations of Glynn and Oxborrow it is clear that population growth rates were less than one third of their nineteenth century peaks and the fact is that there was a substantial loss of population from the old industrial areas to the new ones . |
| 21 | The fact is that the birth rate declined by almost half between the 1900 and the late 1930s , and by an even higher proportion when compared with nineteenth-century levels . |
| 22 | The fact is that the rich retained most of their income and wealth , although there was , quite clearly , some transference of wealth and income from the very rich to the middling rich sections , as indicated in Table 6.3 . |
| 23 | The fact is that class conflict provided little or no revolutionary potential in Britain and that apathy was far more potent a force among the British working class than action . |
| 24 | The fact is that the Labour Party had a well-established base for the parliamentary success which it sought during the inter-war years . |
| 25 | The fact is that the Conservative Party did become closely involved in the problems of the poor and the unemployed — although their efforts were often seen as less than caring . |
| 26 | The fact is that the Liberal Party declined quickly . |
| 27 | The fact is that many Liberals , and especially those in the local constituencies , adopted something of a larger mentality towards change . |
| 28 | Whatever its economic intent , the fact is that Mosley 's fascist movement became associated with the type of violence and anti-Semitism which had become the hallmark of European fascism . |
| 29 | The fact is that fascist support was limited to the extent that all the fascist groups in a particular region were forced to work together in order to ensure a good attendance at meetings . |
| 30 | The fact is that after 1936 the tide had turned to the right in British Labour politics . |