Example sentences of "fact that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He certainly felt that the culture of the state should reflect the fact that it was 93 per cent Roman catholic . |
| 2 | The fact that it was not long after that similar if lesser welfare legislation was introduced is indicative of the public demand and that clerical socio-moral theory did not tally with the people 's experience of reality . |
| 3 | My horror at the fact that it was not unpleasant , that I was almost enjoying it , and that it was killing me . |
| 4 | Brewed by Courage , its name stems from the fact that it was once exported to Russia where it was so popular with the Czarist court that it was brewed under licence in Estonia until the 1917 revolution . |
| 5 | He spoke revealingly about the problems he had had with jurisprudence , bemoaning the fact that it was ambivalent and undefined , concerned primarily with the ambiguity which sustains the anthropologist by revealing the centralities of a system : ‘ it was all grey areas ; no black and white certainties or decisions ; no precedent or case law giving the definitive interpretation ’ . |
| 6 | The name stems from the fact that it was once exported to imperial Russia where it was popular with the Czarist court . |
| 7 | The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) . |
| 8 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 9 | The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 10 | For Engels its significance lies in the fact that it was seen as the basis of what was to be the most dramatic change in the history of mankind . |
| 11 | He found the club welcoming , helped by the fact that it was a path south previously trodden by another Leicester stalwart , Les Cusworth , whom Liley remembers watching as a lad of seven or eight at Wakefield . |
| 12 | THE role of the church in helping to topple the Communist order in Poland and East Germany , compounded by the fact that it was the fate of a Protestant clergyman in Timisoara that triggered the unrest in Romania , has raised the prospect of Romanian churches becoming a focus of political resistance . |
| 13 | Drunkenness due to one 's own fault is in itself no defence to a criminal charge ; and this is probably true also of drunkenness not due to one 's own fault — though no doubt the fact that it was not due to one 's own fault would be a ground for mitigation of punishment . |
| 14 | The effectiveness of the Labour Spain Committee was impaired both by the fact that it was was associated with the movement in the constituency Labour parties and also because it was effectively advocating a a popular front against fascism , which the Labour Party continued to reject throughout the 1930s ; after the political disasters of 1931 it wanted no treating with its political enemies whether of the left or the right . |
| 15 | To him the divine character of Christianity was vindicated not by its reasonableness but by the very fact that it was the kind of thing no ordinary mind could have invented . |
| 16 | ‘ I have in mind the fact that it was not seriously disputed , at any stage during the election , that eight out of 10 families would gain as a result of Labour 's tax and spending proposals ; and yet a number of people who would undoubtedly be beneficiaries of what we were proposing appear not to have recognised that . ’ |
| 17 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 18 | Like MI6 , for many years GCHQ did not officially exist despite the fact that it was listed in several yearbooks . |
| 19 | The fact that it was shown that corporal punishment in a school tended to exacerbate rather than diminish misbehaviour was the principal reason for reform . |
| 20 | The fact that it was larger than most local mills and within a few miles of Cirencester probably saved it . |
| 21 | And , above all , the fact that it was ‘ en suite ’ . |
| 22 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |
| 23 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 24 | Daube argued several years ago that ‘ it is time to revise our legal construction … of surgery in general ’ , and criticized the fact that it was still considered an assault rendered lawful by consent . |
| 25 | Thallium was an Alfa Romeo among poisons , its charm being the fact that it was almost impossible to detect . |
| 26 | The fact that it was such an audacious ambition fired the imagination . |
| 27 | Perhaps it was her choice of material , or the fact that it was a big theatre . |
| 28 | The advent of the boiled bait , not too long before the hair-rig , married very well to this new technique , for it later became apparent that the success of the hair-rig owed a lot to the fact that it was generally used with boilies . |
| 29 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 30 | The size of the city and the fact that it was so spread out , too , was a factor in its favour , it being almost impossible to flatten London with the HE and incendiary bombs of those days . |