Sentences with phrase «very odd fact»

Buttressing the belief that Reading was skating on fiscal thin ice that had very little to do with the temperature of NCLB was a very odd fact about the district: it happened to own a world - class art museum.

That's a very odd fact to insert into the text.

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The fact is that this is a very odd situation.

But the fact that a court order wasn't put up with the name of the family court judge... I find very, very, very odd.

The fact that we have spent millions on players and then hundreds of thousands in wages on players that would struggle to make the league cup side I find very odd.

KEY FACT: Burnley have kept four clean sheets at home in the Premier League this season MATCH ODDS: Burnley 8/5 Draw 9/4 Watford 2/1 bet365 Pick: Ben Mee anytime @ 14/1 ANDY SAYS: Burnley are strong at home so I think they will come out on top... 1 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: I can see goals here, maybe Watford just sneaking it by the odd goal... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Tough one and I can see this being a draw... 1 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Chris Wood at just over 60p looks a very good buy

We don't think Tottenham will roll Bolton over, more of the opposite in fact, but we fancy Spurs to edge this is a nervy affair which could very well be settled by the odd goal.

Likewise, the appalling PC result in 1993 masks the fact that the Reform Party actually had 50 - odd MPs, of which the current Conservative PM was one, and Lord Smith is quite right to point out that the right in Canada has bounced back very effectively from that set - back.

When it comes to Congress, polls show an odd fact: Congress as a whole has a very low approval rating, and yet people in congressional districts across the country approve of their own representative.

It's worth point out that the map in the Telegraph does seem to take into account either the potential for SNP gains in Scotland or for Conservative gains against the LibDems — in fact the map doesn't seem to show a single Conservative gain from the LibDems, which seems a little odd, as (at the very least) some «churn» between the parties is almost a given.

This tip may sound odd, but in fact, it is very helpful.

In fact the first girl had a very genuine looking profile but I thought it was a little odd that she was kinda pushing me towards extending my membership plan for a lower rate that she said she had...

The comment was somewhat facetious, but it underlined a curious fact: not only are most film - lovers unaware of Freed's huge influence on Band Wagon, Silk Stockings, Singin «in the Rain, and the 40 - odd other films produced by his unit, but the very roles of producer and production unit have been little studied by film historians, much less commented on by theorists and critics.

«I was attracted to the fact that he was bright, he spoke Spanish and he was a very good dancer,» says Erica, an Ottawa native who spent her 20s and 30s working at odd jobs and earning a master's degree in translation.

In fact other than a very occasional grunt they are entirely without voice overs, which leads to some very odd situations as characters are shown trying to vaguely mime their way through the thankfully very rare cutscenes.

It also has to be said that the City feels very empty in terms of population because there really isn't many NPC's walking around adding that bit of extra personality to the map, but instead there is the odd few pedestrians in and around the city just walking around giving off a walking dead kind of vibe and in fact there seems to be more enemy AI than actual members of the general public scattered around the map apart from one linear level section which takes place at the Mardi Gras festival, where it is a fairly busy environment that you have to get through undetected.

It's a small issue, but the fact that the controls felt slightly odd and off until the very end of the game says a lot.

The fact that its in space really does gives a very odd feel to it, although in essence the story is basically a slightly altered version of the first game's (which doesn't take place in space at all).

The fact that the majority are in the Don't Plan To Play folder is very odd to me, why did you even buy it?

His list of connections is extensive and amusing: From a few odd comments Richard Prince made about Bob Dylan's Asia «work,» Prince's own discourse during a 2009 deposition on using pulp fiction book covers as image sources for his Nurse paintings, personal connections between the two and Bob Dylan's instinct to mess with journalists — as well as the fact that this work has nothing to do with the Bob Dylan we know — this could very well be just another staged rebirth of the artist.

The fact that there are very good scientists who are skeptics is one of those odd facts.

Round that off with the fact that apart from the odd bug here and there, most of them were very good performers, and logic dictated that they should have pretty much dominated the market and given sleepless nights to the established order.

In fact, it looks downright odd to use with the Pen because the display does not articulate very far.