Example sentences of "fact [that] [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am aware of one educated patient , with known duodenal ulcer , who had started taking this medicine for headache , believing it to be Ayurvedic and despite the facts that it is labelled as containing 530 mg aspirin and 100 mg paracetamol and that he had been instructed by his doctor to refrain from all pain-relieving medications like aspirin . |
| 2 | However , the fact that one is a non-executive director does not diminish one 's legal duties or responsibilities . |
| 3 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 4 | In other words , the differences between the two may come down to the fact that one is a linguist interested in grammar , while the other is a psychologist interested in the functional relations between language and the immediate context . |
| 5 | What this means is that the taking of leisure is self-defeating ; the fact that one is one 's own boss adds to , rather than subtracts from , the psychological pressures to do housework . |
| 6 | It is a striking reminder of the pastoral rural life of long ago and the first pointer to the fact that one is entering ancient quarters . |
| 7 | But why ( if it were not for the fact that one is a Christian ) should one be wanting to stay with the experience of women within the biblical tradition ? |
| 8 | The major differences between speech and writing derive from the fact that one is essentially transitory and the other is designed to be permanent . |
| 9 | I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box , one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead … which should make a difference … should n't it ? |
| 10 | We simply can not form a clear and distinct idea of the fact that something is conducive or inimical to the actualisation of our essences without this influencing our behaviour towards or away from it . |
| 11 | The mere fact that something is sold as a bulk product to a specification need not , in itself , decide that one should move out of it . |
| 12 | The fact that something is wrong with this policy is now being recognised outside the Department of National Heritage , the tourist boards and Parliament . |
| 13 | It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different . |
| 14 | ‘ The criticism we are getting and the fact that everybody is writing us off does n't bother us a bit . |
| 15 | ‘ It gives me a lot of pleasure to be top but the fact that everybody is surprised is disappointing . ’ |
| 16 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 17 | The fact that everyone is writing us off does n't bother us . |
| 18 | The only people they do n't want to upset are the people at the garage the fact that somebody is n't doing their job properly somebody 's sitting on a form somewhere |
| 19 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fry drew mocking attention to the fact that what is involved in pop is not simply music , but music as articulated through a performer or , rather , through an image of a performer — and if musical meaning is conventional , not natural , so is our sense of pop personality . |
| 22 | Second , the idea of self help obscures the fact that what is being sought are facilities on the cheap , incorporating the unpaid labour c.f mothers themselves … |
| 23 | However , in a less evaluative sense , and in the majority of cases , the description ‘ psychotic ’ refers to an abnormality of experience and behaviour in which the individual loses control of his or her feelings , perceptions , and ideas , may develop delusional beliefs that have no basis in reality and intermittently lacks insight into the fact that anything is wrong . |
| 24 | You may want your dog to bark initially , to alert you to the fact that someone is at the door . |
| 25 | Clients will not be allowed access to information about other private citizens which is in their file — either descriptive material or the fact that someone is the source of a report — unless the other person is happy that it can be shared . |
| 26 | Peter responds that the fact that someone is a single parent does n't mean they 're not a decent person . |
| 27 | Whatever flickerings of potential this young tyro possesses , they can not cover up the fact that he is a painter with the imagination of a retarded adolescent ; no technical mastery ; no intuitive feeling for pictorial space ; no sensitivity towards , or grasp of , tradition ; and a colour sense rather less than that of Congo , the chimpanzee who was taught ( among other things ) a crude responsiveness to colour harmonies by Desmond Morris in the late 1950s . |
| 28 | Everything focuses on the fact that he is always struggling with his desire for love and power as well as for an end to all his problems . |
| 29 | Digression won well enough , but the big minus factor against him is the fact that he is by the American stallion , Seattle Slew , whose progeny have tended not to train on over here . |
| 30 | Indignant over suggestions that the Prime Minister has replaced his Jaguar with a Rover , Nigel Lawson can at least draw comfort from the fact that he is a wanted man in the City . |