Example sentences of "fact is [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels . |
| 2 | The fact is that cognitive neuropsychologists have significantly increased our understanding of the effects of brain injury on behaviour by conceptualizing mental processes in purely functional terms without regard to their subjective qualities or to physiology . |
| 3 | Whilst external social factors may be of some relevance to the management , even control , of the behaviour of those afflicted , the harsh fact is that external social influences play little part in its onset or progress . |
| 4 | The fact is that Russian publishers producing books on art are faced with the real threat of closure . |
| 5 | The sad fact is that dolphin-friendly labels were a commercial decision by companies looking to protect their profits , not dolphins . " |
| 6 | The second fact is that Labour , despite the recession and its junking of almost all the policies that made it unelectable in the '80s , has not made a significant advance . |
| 7 | The fact is that addictive disease is serious right from the start . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact is that individual people are the best guardians of their own information . |
| 9 | The most obvious fact is that real problems are rare . |
| 10 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 11 | The fact is that fascist support was limited to the extent that all the fascist groups in a particular region were forced to work together in order to ensure a good attendance at meetings . |
| 12 | ‘ No one wants to see that , but the simple fact is that stray dogs are a menace . ’ |
| 13 | The simple fact is that American consumers regarded them as boring , which is why 60 per cent of the crop had always gone into products like bread and biscuits . |
| 14 | The fact is that unemployed people already have access to a range of programmes through the employment service , including job review workshops , which provide precisely that service for those who are unemployed . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact is that middle-aged mothers of two , with abdomens covered in stretch marks and slightly sagging breasts , might look an awful lot more attractive with some underwear on . |
| 16 | The fact is that old Uncle Dan , who lives with me , is a bit queer in the head , and I 'm afraid he talked a lot of nonsense . |
| 17 | My Lords , I hope that I can er erm allay the disquiet of the Noble Lord , Lord erm the , th th the fact is that British Transport Police at the moment have control and jurisdiction over all the the railway system in and on and in the vicinity of the , the railway the railway organisation . |
| 18 | But the fact is that organic cheese is fine , but unpasteurised organic cheese , with all the flavour not purged by pasteurisation , is far finer . |
| 19 | Because the brutal fact is that big business no longer needs brute force ( except perhaps as Exocet fodder ) . |