disturbing fact
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisturbingandfact
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disturbing
adjective
uk/dɪˈstɜː.bɪŋ/us/dɪˈstɝː.bɪŋ/
making you feel worried ...
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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 ofdisturbingandfactfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I suggest that that is a verydisturbingfact.
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This in many ways is adisturbingfact.
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It is a very significant anddisturbingfact.
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Whatever it is, it is adisturbingfact.
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Clearly that is a worrying anddisturbingfact.
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That is a verydisturbingfactfor them.
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Thedisturbingfactis that the lad can literally belong to no-one.
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But thedisturbingfactis that something must be done about public opinion.
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A mostdisturbingfactis that, despite all we are doing, productivity is static this year.
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It is adisturbingfact, and we are seriously worried about it.
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Thedisturbingfactabout it is that the threat was necessary before that was done.
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That is a very important and, in some contexts, a verydisturbingfact.
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Thedisturbingfactfor me is the lack of clear thinking.
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For higher education in the context of our national requirements, this also is adisturbingfact.
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The mostdisturbingfactof all is the position about psychiatric social workers.
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But the mostdisturbingfactis that upon each successive debate we find that the economic situation itself has deteriorated.
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Anotherdisturbingfactis the great decline in employment in the inner city because firms have moved away.
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Another is the increasing fatality rate, and thedisturbingfacthere is that this is affecting all sections of society.
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Thedisturbingfact—and we have to face it—is in relation to those who are able to avoid detection.
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This is a verydisturbingfact, rendered more serious by the knowledge that there were two bosses.
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That is adisturbingfact.
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That is a verydisturbingfact.
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That is a mostdisturbingfact.
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That is a stark anddisturbingfact.
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I give some other figures to illustrate thatdisturbingfact.
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