Example sentences of "fact that [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tucker , who is due to retire in the autumn , said : ‘ I regard the honour as a tribute to the work of Navy News staff past and present , and I 'm particularly proud of the fact that ours has always been virtually an in-house production . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm a different player , ’ he said , illustrated by the fact that he kicks goals with either foot . |
| 3 | Despite the occasional brush with the law ( ‘ obstructing the police ’ in Vienna ) , Mr Rossi seems to have led a laudatory ( for a man of his calling ) existence — save for the fact that he bears no little responsibility in influencing the progeny of working people to attire themselves in tent material . |
| 4 | And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba , too . |
| 5 | Moore 's terminology is complicated by the fact that he allows the possibility of properties which are not natural , without being non-natural in the special sense in which value properties are . |
| 6 | His technical problem again arises basically from the fact that he calls Cruelty cruel . |
| 7 | His technical problem again arises basically from the fact that he calls Cruelty cruel . |
| 8 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 9 | Former owner David Stoddart , who also bred Party Politics , decided to sell the gelding — a move largely influenced by the fact that he retains a five-year-old half-brother , who is the last from the family . |
| 10 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 11 | Neale was rated 9,9 by his team members , a fact that he acknowledges with appropriate diffidence . |
| 12 | In essence , therefore , a trustee or personal representative may deal , notwithstanding the fact that he possesses unpublished price sensitive information relating to the securities in which he deals , if he acts with propriety by first obtaining proper advice . |
| 13 | The contempt which Anderson seems to have for McKendrick in scene sixteen ( which , as we shall see later , is also suggested by the level of politeness he uses ) is strongly marked by the fact that he allocates no turns to him at all . |
| 14 | His refusal to construe a trust appears to rest solely on the fact that he deprecates interference of this kind in the rights of another . |
| 15 | Then there is the fact that he remains , even within the constraints of his later career as a commentator alongside Murray Walker on the Beeb , remarkably open and frank in his judgements , both of himself and of others . |
| 16 | Althusser 's historical interest derives from the fact that he represents the only orthodox Marxist theorist who has tried to get out of Hegel while remaining a Marxist — though for many Marxists he did sacrifice Marxism in the process , which only suggests how closely Marxism and Hegelianism are intertwined . |
| 17 | The fact that he travels well is not the only thing in Top Class 's favour , as Brittain explains . |
| 18 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 19 | ‘ The fact that he goes on and he thinks his ideas are the ideas . |
| 20 | She has n't exchanged two civil words with him since we left Kinsai , and the fact that he lets most of her insults pass over his head just makes matters worse . ’ |
| 21 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 22 | ‘ Is it the fact that he rambles on that bores you , or the fact that you do n't want to talk about what life 's about ? ’ |
| 23 | Even though the hon. Gentleman occasionally speaks with forked tongue — and , as we shall see later , his views are not shared by his Front-Bench colleague , the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) — I welcome the fact that he proclaims his support for the TECs . |
| 24 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 25 | The fact that he uses both personal and impersonal descriptions of God supports this point . |
| 26 | In this way Foucault could be said to be returning to Marx in removing the subject from the centre of history , were it not for the fact that he dispenses with the consolations of Marx 's historicism also . |
| 27 | Aside from the fact that he does n't actually discuss it in any detail , there is little more than a disappointed huffing and puffing at the exhaustion of the avant-garde 's shock value ( backed up by a particularly crass quotation from Peter Bürger about Duchamp 's readymades ) and some utterly routine panting over the outlandish prices being currently paid for Van Goghs — plus a quotation from a sub-Warholian Manhattan ‘ artist ’ answering an art magazine questionnaire with a few smart remarks about business and producing art for the market . |
| 28 | MPs knew the Health Secretary did not listen to the patients or the nurses and doctors , he said , but ‘ at least we can seek reassurance in the fact that he does n't pay a blind bit of notice to what his own department is saying either ’ . |
| 29 | The fact that he does not explain anything about them probably means that they were known to his audience . |
| 30 | The fact that He does , very often , is a bonus . |