Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts that they restricted entry to the lounge to certain classes of passengers and gave their staff instructions as to what to do with lost property were insufficient to manifest the intention to exercise the requisite degree of control . |
| 2 | The facts that they do fearful things to themselves and to others regardless of consequence and that they are unaware of the connection between cause and consequence are the essential psycho-pathological nature of addictive disease and denial . |
| 3 | We should attend to the fact that knowledge of the external world means representing a lot of facts at once , so many facts that we lose hold of the idea of ‘ representation ’ . |
| 4 | It 's hardly ever reported in the Third World and er taking the facts that we 've just been talking about into account , it would be tempting to see anorexia as related to conflicts about the beginning of a young woman 's reproductive life because what normally happens is , and has certainly happened in the only case of this that occurred in my family , the young woman in question lost so much weight that she stopped cycling and in fact erm puberty changes went into reverse , she actually regressed , she started puberty and er she had this anorexia problem and she stopped cycling and , and all her body changes reversed , she went back to pre-puberty again erm because of oh no , oh no it did n't , she lost her body hair and stuff yeah , er her , her , her hormonal changes . |
| 5 | Consequently , unless we are convinced of the possibility of a reductive account of knowledge , let us not tie our hands by refusing to make use of facts that we know to be true . |
| 6 | It sounds ridiculous — it is ridiculous — it 's one of those huge ridiculous facts that one tries to close one 's eyes to , they 're so absurd — and I 'm only mentioning it because it 's two o'clock in the morning , and I feel I can say anything to you . |
| 7 | They are the facts that everyone knows , Mr Holmes , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The newspaper gives the facts that everybody knows . |
| 9 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 10 | But with the housekeeper 's help — you remember Maria , the housekeeper ? — I pieced together the facts that he 'd met you , and within a week proposed and been accepted . |
| 11 | The historian must first personally select the facts that he presents in his narrative because he can not include them all . |
| 12 | Ace filled in gaps for her as they talked about his long climb up to Formula One and his present position , and because of her background she was able to fill in the bare facts that he offered . |
| 13 | The candidate who brings his whole library to such an examination often fails : the facts that he needs are lost in a multitude of pages . |
| 14 | Because — no harm in saying it once again — this is the essence of the private-eye novel : that its hero actively goes out and grabs to himself the facts that he needs . |
| 15 | The facts that it relies on transformation to normal form and uses two separate types of approximation mean that its hypotheses will be much harder to prove by induction than those of the earlier rule . |
| 16 | The Court found on the facts that it did not need to pronounce upon whether the provisions relating to the Gex Zone created a stipulation in favour of a third party , but warned that the existence of such rights should not be lightly assumed : each such claim must be separately examined to determine ‘ whether the States which have stipulated in favour of a third State meant to create for that State an actual right which the latter has accepted as such ’ . |
| 17 | Now I want you to tell me all the other facts that you know . |
| 18 | ‘ I have considered all the facts that you describe relating to the circumstances and they are substantially as in my officer 's report to me about the death . |
| 19 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 20 | Yeah if I knew some facts that I had a job to go to , I 'd pay for it myself |
| 21 | In the light of the facts that I have set out , his conclusion that the Home Office decision is ’ ill-conceived ’ is a masterpiece of restrained understatement . |
| 22 | They reported back at the end of January 1991 and commented that one of the reasons for the massive underspending was the fact that one had to have three companies before one could apply . |
| 23 | With many relationships the case for self-creation is even stronger , since in them the fact that one chose to have a relationship of a certain kind and chose one 's partner is part of what makes the relationship valuable . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That is not the proposition , but the fact that one does not ban it does not mean that , with the knowledge that we now possess , we do not regard it as a debilitating and dangerous influence on society , and especially young people . |
| 26 | Haitink is not one given to lofty poetics ( try the decidedly unmagical , if immaculately balanced gossamer string texturing of [ iii ] ) , nor outbursts of uncontrollable excitement ( close of [ i ] ) , yet the fact that one arrives at the finale with one 's emotions reasonably intact pays dividends in the long-term , especially as the conductor and the BPO ( on stunning form , incidentally ) raise the emotional temperature several notches for this glorious movement . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 29 | Well I felt that although , obviously , computers do do arithmetic and they do it very quickly , to me probably the more important aspects are the fact that one has a visual display on the computer screen which can convey information without numbers in a more rapid way to most people . |
| 30 | Further , she argues from the fact that one wills alienation to be overcome , that indeed it is overcome . |