Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] did " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | This is purely a reflection of the fact that we did n't clearly understand the cost of nuclear electricity ’ . |
| 3 | I think this was due to the fact that we did n't have 9-to-5 jobs and we were entertainers and could n't possibly manage the £7 a week rent . |
| 4 | This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own . |
| 5 | I mean we do n't actually get that involved apart from the fact that we did originally have a leaflet . |
| 6 | I imagine that it was a bit like driving through a minefield in the war , the fact that we did not hit anybody was a miracle in itself ! |
| 7 | I think the whole idea of us managing to stick together for seven months , you know th the fact that we did , bar a few exceptions , you know it 's it 's amazing . |
| 8 | The fact that we did n't sign one treaty [ on Biodiversity ] does not diminish … the US leadership role . |
| 9 | That 's right , we 've got to balance that with the fact that we did promise them a decrease , but we 've got the erm leverage of having helped them . |
| 10 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
| 11 | Well , I think again we can just erm , er , again if we just think about the fact that we did n't write the questions |
| 12 | Oh yes , we definitely needed the three points today , you know , before the game we were looking to get three points erm to get one out of it we are disappointed , but as I say , the way we 've played second half , we 've just got to take a bit of heart from the fact that we did n't get beat . |
| 13 | The fact that they did so makes Mary 's minority fall so clearly into two distinct parts . |
| 14 | The fact that they did arrive however , was much appreciated by people in this part of Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | On the debit side the church also witnessed a high proportion of reversions , particularly among their young people through the secularising influence of their English education and the fact that they did not share their parents ' nostalgia . |
| 16 | The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism . |
| 17 | Was one of the problems with the public perception of women deacons the fact that they did , often , look so like librarians ? |
| 18 | Instead , there were various individuals — Ferdinand , Isabella and their councillors — and the fact that they did not want the unification of Spain and the Hapsburg lands is presented as decisive evidence against Braudel 's view . |
| 19 | But the fact that they did not impose formal constraints upon royal power reflected above all their overriding interest in the maintenance of a strong central state capable of holding the peasants in check . |
| 20 | Would any man in his senses invent a story of a bus crash in which 16,000 passengers were killed ? it is much more likely that these Old Testament numbers were faithfully copies out , despite the fact that they did not seem to make sense . |
| 21 | He took an almost paternal interest in them , and fretted about the fact that they did not lead as settled a life as they needed in order to work properly : he believed , for example , that Auden was wasting his talents . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , the Engineering Council ran into trouble with the fact that they did want to put some penal clauses in whereby engineers were responsible for a lot of their actions . |
| 23 | After the failure of a ‘ respectable ’ revolution in 1819 the conspiracy fell into the hands of young officers and Masons who used the mysterious procedures of the sect in order to hide the fact that they did not have the ‘ old gang 's ’ financial backing for the reward of wholesale desertion . |
| 24 | And and you could get a feel for the fact that they did do it . |
| 25 | And also I think because a lot of publicity erm was given to the actual arrest figures , and to the fact that they did n't come from the local area . |
| 26 | Libby stared at the man 's eyes ; they were blue , but she did n't take in the colour , just the fact that they did not seem to see her , they looked at something else They were like the eyes of the blind man in Mallow , which looked everywhere but did not see as he tapped along the pavement . |
| 27 | When faced with that choice this summer , I chose to encourage people to continue to develop computerisation in primary health care rather than simply to reward directly those who did something very valuable — there is no doubt about that , or about the fact that they did it at their own risk — some years ago . |
| 28 | One of the reasons for the Government 's failure has been the fact that they did not bring together all the groups involved . |
| 29 | As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account . |
| 30 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |