simple fact
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsimpleandfact
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simple
adjective
uk/ˈsɪm.pəl/us/ˈsɪm.pəl/
easy to understand or do; ...
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fact
noun[C or U]
uk/fækt/us/fækt/
something that is known to have happened or to exist, especially something for which proof exists, or about which there ...
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(Definition ofsimpleandfactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsimple fact
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That is asimplefact.
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We use the followingsimplefact.
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We will need the followingsimplefact.
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There's asimplefactof life hiding inside that anecdote.
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Thissimplefactcan be very valuable for selecting actions.
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To complete the proof we need the followingsimplefact.
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The reason was probably thesimplefactof bureaucratic stickiness.
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First we recall a verysimplefactfrom linear algebra.
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Here our considerations are based on the followingsimplefact.
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The firstsimplefactwe need is the following.
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We use the followingsimplefactregarding connectedness.
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The apparentlysimplefactof faster procedures does have methodological implications.
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But thissimplefactof life was expressed in several ways.
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Thissimplefact, which was not new, influenced some of my later research.
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But thesimplefactwas that technologically there was no basic difference between explosion and blast.
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The hereditary nature of regularity is captured by the following,simplefact.
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Before stating our main sequence of claims, we give the followingsimplefact.
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Andrews cautioned against drawing too-grand conclusions from thissimplefact, however.
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Thesimplefactis that people almost never made better tools at a later time.
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It cannot be understood as asimplefactor a single feature of modern healthcare.
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It is asimplefactthat is continuous in the weak topology.
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We leave for the reader the demonstration of this x-simplefact.
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The latter is said to prefer "legal fiction" to "simplefact" (84n).
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Thesimplefactof investigating the church in its local context does much to rehabilitate it.
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