Example sentences of "fact [that] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of the fact that I am walking this is somewhat academic , but it gives us a point of contact . |
| 2 | For the moment I am concentrating mostly on the fact that I am riding under the Arctic sky , a very black sky , heavily overcast , being pulled across the ice by a team of dogs . |
| 3 | Mum begins to notice my attachment to John , the amount of hours I am spending away from home , the fact that I am growing up and away from her , and also how much I 'm eating . |
| 4 | Tell yourself , ‘ The very fact that I am alive gives me the right to a new beginning . ’ |
| 5 | It is not love when the concern is the fact that I am being inconvenienced , but it is when the concern is for the damage that is being done to my partner and our relationship . |
| 6 | The fact that I am hopeless , useless , and ca n't play any more does n't really matter , as I am an amateur player . |
| 7 | But in spite of the fact that I am more attentive to my own affairs than to yours , the disproportion of awareness is not necessarily in my own favour . |
| 8 | In whatever sense it is to be recognized as an objective fact that I am now responding in awareness of more factors than before , my reaction will likewise be objectively better than before . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am being pushed out in the cold . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't like the fact that I am the butt of so many things — a lot of which I think is unfair — but I 'm not inhibited by it . |
| 11 | ‘ Doctors said the fact that I am well built was in my favour , ’ said Ged , of Barn Hey Farm , Netherley , near Liverpool . |
| 12 | The fact that I am conning myself , and know it , does not , strange to say , seem to render the technique ineffective . |
| 13 | I really can not come to terms with the fact that I am … there 's lots of interesting work to do — there was in the job I did — and I want so much to identify with that rather than just sit back here and say ‘ I 'm a housewife and I 'm happy ’ … because I could n't be . |
| 14 | ‘ The fact that I am a foreigner almost certainly worked in my favour , ’ suggests Hulten . |
| 15 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 16 | ‘ And I do n't return night after night to the flat — largely thanks to the fact that I am footloose and fancy-free , I can follow my job wherever it takes me . ’ |
| 17 | And the fact that I am a small blonde is probably a bonus on this occasion . |
| 18 | That is despite the fact that I am paying hundreds of pounds a year for the privilege of a so-called collection service . |
| 19 | On a point of order , Mr. Speaker — not related to business questions or to the fact that I am sulking or anything like that ; it is a totally different matter . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's impossible for there to be a lower point , simply because of this result and the fact that I am the manager in charge of a team representing the country . ’ |
| 21 | Before being offered my current job in a family centre , I applied for dozens , and I know at least two rejections were based on the fact that I am a man . |
| 22 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 23 | ‘ The fact that I was needed by him in that setting was actually very attractive , because I was important . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that I was petrified with fear , I was st ill their leader . |
| 25 | After ten rounds of the game , I could theoretically have won as much as $5,000 , but only if you have been extraordinarily silly ( or saintly ) and played COOPERATE every time , in spite of the fact that I was consistently defecting . |
| 26 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 27 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 28 | Suddenly I awoke to the fact that I was staring at a tree on the other side of the road and that this tree was green and delicate . |
| 29 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 30 | I sat alone in a compartment , coming to terms with the fact that I was free at last and if I wanted to put my feet up on the opposite seat or take off my tie , no one in uniform had the right to bustle in and call me Airwoman in that well-known disapproving voice . |