Example sentences of "fact [is] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But whether all this back-to-the-future stuff is the final , futile , heroic twitch in the corpse of pop music bludgeoned near to death by metal and techno , or whether this instinctive return to flamboyance and sexual ambiguity really signals the first stirrings of a full-scale revolution , the fact is that 1992 desperately yearns to be 20 years younger and ‘ Back In Denim ’ is New Glam 's most articulate manifesto so far . |
| 2 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 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 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |
| 5 | The fact is that Russian publishers producing books on art are faced with the real threat of closure . |
| 6 | But the fact is that such tests are done on single chemicals , never on mixtures . |
| 7 | The fact is that such breakages are very uncommon , and that the quoted figure of 2,000 tank-related accidents a year includes things like ruptures and hernias while trying to lift them … |
| 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 many Liberals , and especially those in the local constituencies , adopted something of a larger mentality towards change . |
| 10 | The sad fact is that many of these ‘ irruptive ’ birds spend their last days in the islands , because if they do not move on immediately while they still have the strength , the more time they spend searching for what is n't there , the less chance there is of their being able to make another long sea crossing . |
| 11 | The fact is that many majority of people know that it |
| 12 | The fact is that many have an aroma and flavour which is unique — for instance , basil can only be described as tasting like basil . |
| 13 | The fact is that many still fall on the way , due to lack of provision for maternity leave and child care — among other problems . |
| 14 | The simple fact is that many of the values of the mass literacy movement have been ill-conceived . |
| 15 | The sad fact is that many organisations would be unable to recognise a customer even if he or she fell in front of them . |
| 16 | When many people take out their pension , they may be happily married , but the sad fact is that many will have divorced before reaching retirement . |
| 17 | The sad fact is that dolphin-friendly labels were a commercial decision by companies looking to protect their profits , not dolphins . " |
| 18 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
| 19 | The fact is that 1991 has been an unprecedented year of success for Belfast . |
| 20 | The fact is that addictive disease is serious right from the start . |
| 21 | ‘ The fact is that individual people are the best guardians of their own information . |
| 22 | The undeniable fact is that all worshipped ‘ gods ’ have in the past been man-made , either imagined or physically made in the form of idols . |
| 23 | The fact is that all developed societies undergo processes in which professions and occupations proliferate and become more specialised and we then have to evolve means of ‘ getting it all together again' , in this case , ensuring that the patient or client does not suffer as a result of our separate functions and roles . |
| 24 | But the fact is that all the other instances of union are just as swiftly broken up , disunited . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most important fact is that all the pigments used in Aquacryl are lightfast . |
| 26 | The fact is that all the examples adduced to support the proposition that there should be a qualitative — or ‘ radical ’ — extension of the role of trade unions into the management of the business employing their members fail at the crucial oint . |
| 27 | The most obvious fact is that real problems are rare . |
| 28 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 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 | ‘ No one wants to see that , but the simple fact is that stray dogs are a menace . ’ |