Example sentences of "the fact that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee drew attention to the fact that during the experiment fewer Members had been formally penalised for bad behaviour than in several recent sessions , and reported that neither the Speaker nor the Community had any evidence that rowdiness had significantly increased ; on the possible long-term effect , early evidence was ‘ mildly encouraging ’ . |
| 2 | None the less , the attention they have rightly drawn to parochial religion and to non-predestinarian elements within the church should not be allowed to obscure the fact that during the period from 1560 to 1625 credal predestinarianism claimed the allegiance of the great majority of Elizabethan and Jacobean churchmen , or that during the 1630s this creed came under a concerted and unprecedented attack from the ecclesiastical authorities . |
| 3 | The thought of ‘ New Liberalism ’ was shaped by the fact that during the period 1880–1914 a great deal of interventionist legislation had been enacted , much of which had been the responsibility of Liberal governments . |
| 4 | He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators . |
| 5 | Second , our apprehension is aroused by the fact that during sleep we seem to lose control of our minds . |
| 6 | The supply problem was further compounded by the fact that during the four years of war only 50,000 dwellings were added to the national stock . |
| 7 | The relations between the Cubists and the German painters with whom they came into contact were less stormy , although the internal situation in Germany was complex from an art-historical point of view owing to the fact that during the pre-war years Germany seemed to become the melting-pot for western European painting . |
| 8 | The steady increase in goods traffic which had taken place over the century can be demonstrated by the fact that during twenty-six weeks in 1847 the London and South-Western took in £38,906.19/11d as a result of their freight traffic . |
| 9 | If Labour Members wish regularly to employ international statistics on investment , they should bear in mind the fact that during the 1970s the average annual growth rate in business investment in the United Kingdom was 2.3 per cent. , against an average of 3.1 per cent . |
| 10 | And the fact that during our period the most rapidly industrialising countries , like Britain and Germamy , were also the great exporters of men , seemed to justify them . |
| 11 | And one of the things that 's happened in our business I think , erm , is that , is the fact that during the recession people stopped keeping stocks and now they do need a fairly quick delivery of , of their products . |
| 12 | It all added up to the fact that below Silas 's cool exterior there was warmth and compassion for others . |
| 13 | It was her solitary research and activism during the 1970s which alerted the world to the fact that despite the end of large-scale hunting in the 1950s , numbers had continued to decline , and the whales were on the verge of extinction . |
| 14 | Press comment on the swingeing HMI criticisms of a Hackney comprehensive school focused on the fact that despite its obvious shortcomings , the school was oversubscribed . |
| 15 | So far COHSE has drawn encouragement from the fact that despite general interest no unit or trust has managed to get a job evaluation scheme off the ground . |
| 16 | Particularly significant was the fact that despite the Nordics ' supposed love of liberty the more authoritarian qualities were emphasized , and there appeared to be a shift from traditional nineteenth-century assumptions of Anglo-Saxon authority over colonial peoples to an elitist anti-democratic control of ‘ Nordics ’ over ‘ Mediterraneans ’ within British society . |
| 17 | The main criticisms focused on the lack of progress in the provision of international holidays but principally on the fact that despite its founding objectives , to improve the lot of the exploited labouring classes , the Fellowship was becoming ‘ rather middle class in spirit , and conservative in ideas … . |
| 18 | What is interesting about this view is the fact that despite the subversion of democracy outlined , most pluralist writers maintain an abiding faith in the ultimate democratic nature of the American political system . |
| 19 | There are in Cubism many seemingly contradictory features , and one of the most obvious is the fact that despite the strong intellectual and rational strain that characterizes the style , the painting of Picasso and Braque remained markedly unscientific . |
| 20 | How could she possibly have walked into the reception room at the hotel where Rune was holding his anniversary party and looked him in the face without betraying the fact that despite the passage of time and distance she still loved him ? |
| 21 | Despite the fact that over the years America has been Israel 's guardian , both politically and militarily , and continues to give Israel $3 billion-worth of aid annually , that does not stop it from falling victim to Mossad 's activities . |
| 22 | On the other side of the argument is the fact that over one-fourth of the respondent firms in the survey did not have an environmental scanning system in evidence , only 5% of the firms were using the most sophisticated environmental scanning system available ( i.e. they have an environmental scanning unit which is tied to the planning process , utilizes computer data banks , involves most countries in which they operate and integrates environmental information on a worldwide basis ) , and 51% of the respondents still reported little or no computerization being used in the process . |
| 23 | This is surprising in view of the fact that over a longer term measurements can vary by much more than this . |
| 24 | Can my right hon. Friend find time during his busy day to congratulate the management and staff of Rover on the fact that over the past 12 months not one single minute of production time has been lost through industrial disputes ? |
| 25 | Many asked , is it the right time for the G M B to even consider merging with the T & g , particularly given the fact that over the past thirteen years the T & g has lost over fifty percent of their membership and now stands in great financial crisis . |
| 26 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 27 | In England the question of translation was complicated by the fact that between the Norman Conquest and the middle of the fourteenth century French was the language of the ruling class . |
| 28 | The fact that between 1866 and 1870 almost one quarter of the entire uniformed strength of the Metropolitan Police were dismissed because of misconduct gives some indication of the social organisation of policing in this period . |
| 29 | However , concern has been caused by the fact that between 1976 and 1989 the ratio of debt to personal disposable income rose from 50% to over 100% ( BEQB May 1989 ) , and since 1980 the growth in credit has substantially exceeded the growth in income . |
| 30 | No mention of the fact that between them , Newcastle and Swindon had 34 shots at goal ; not even a reference to the one and only Glen Hoddle , who in the entire match misplaced only one pass . |