Example sentences of "fact that [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would lend you something of mine , were it not for the fact that everything I own would be indecently short . |
| 2 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 3 | It is a well known fact that everyone who drinks Guinness is fond of music . |
| 4 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 5 | This act is a betrayal to Leeds United supporters everywhere — you seem to have lost sight of the fact that its us supporters who breathe life into Leeds United . |
| 6 | You know the fact that what what do you feel about You know the fact that s there some girls you know that work as prostitutes locally |
| 7 | With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ . |
| 8 | In view of that , we can recognize the possibility that as rational beings we fall under a system of law which we have somehow ourselves brought into being , and that it is our task while appearing to exist in the sensory world to live according to that law , in spite of the fact that what we appear to be is simply animals driven by sensory desire . |
| 9 | Well okay so so you 're going to you 're going to erm emphasize the er the fact that what we are supplying is a noise tested |
| 10 | But , in the euphoria of the moment , were the local breeders blinding themselves to the fact that what they were really doing was preserving freaks ? |
| 11 | The BBC usually attempt to hide the fact that what they 're about to show is a repeat by introducing it with the words : ‘ Another chance to see … |
| 12 | It would be an interminable occupation were it not for the fact that what one learns about the landscape of one town often throws a flash of light upon a topographical puzzle in another . |
| 13 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 14 | Er the only reason for the fact that we we did n't have a tragedy is that the population in the in those areas is very sparse . |
| 15 | It 's an enormous problem for us , unfortunately , by by virtue of the fact that we we do most of our claims over the telephone . |
| 16 | And er the question of the grants as well , I 'm opposed to the fact that they they 're going to if we do n't hurry up er , these two sites in Harlow will not , never be completed ! |
| 17 | No I 'll tell you why it 's not the fact that they they fit but they 're too narrow if |
| 18 | They were , in the garden , the points of focus for her own attention ; and the fact that they themselves were concentrating intensified her satisfaction . |
| 19 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 20 | What do ordinary readers think , when their eyes catch the fact that someone they know is concerned with a police inquiry into crime ? |
| 21 | The initial Lutheran challenge to papal authority in 1517 had ushered in an age in which Europe would be divided into hostile confessional camps , but , despite the fact that he himself had dispensed with papal authority within his own realm , Henry VIII had been extremely reluctant to accept this reality . |
| 22 | The widow of a Melbourne barman who died of lung cancer has been awarded A$20,000 from the man 's employers because he suffered from the adverse effects of passive smoking , despite the fact that he himself smoked 10 cigarettes a day . |
| 23 | It is an extraordinary fact that anyone who stammers because of an earlier traumatic experience loses the affliction when hypnotized . |
| 24 | John Major officially revealed last week that the head of MI6 is Sir Colin McColl , a fact that anyone who cared already knew . |
| 25 | Nor is it flippant liberalism to point this out — though there may be significance in the fact that anyone who does so has immediately to excuse himself , as I find myself doing . |
| 26 | Erm cos I I think Mr Mr Potter and others have already referred to the fact that it there 's no evidence as yet that er demand is being siphoned off from from West Yorkshire to Selby . |
| 27 | Well I , I remember once going into er a British restaurant because it was my birthday and there was trifle on the menu and trifle was some sort of weird jelly thing that was thi instead of sponge it was stale bread and I think it was sort of stewed apple and mock cream but the fact that it it was my birthday and it was trifle you know I just sort of sat there like a queen but I think I 'm sure that it tasted quite revolting . |
| 28 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 29 | You 've got the fact that you we 're paying Dennis but we do n't employ Dennis you know he 's he 's so there there 's the extra cost there what you would n't have anywhere else . |
| 30 | One can not overlook the fact that you yourself are not of the nobility — let alone of royal blood ! ’ |