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fact and singular
However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").
For example, in " Anyone who thinks they have been affected should contact their doctor ", they and their are within the scope of the universal, distributive quantifier anyone, and can be interpreted as referring to an unspecified individual or to people in general ( notwithstanding the fact that " anyone " is strictly grammatically singular ).
The measure δ is not absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure — in fact, it is a singular measure.
Notice again that this is probably not a fact about mass-count syntax, but about prototypical examples, since many singular count nouns have referents whose proper parts can be described by the same term.
It is a singular fact that until within a few years this fish was never seen in America.
In fact, recent initiatives such as the pilota championships, literary competitions and other events show a culturally vibrant city that yet relies on its ancient traditions to express its singular identity, even those as seemingly frivolous as the Falles festival.
The basic form is a series of questions formulated as tests of logic and fact intended to help a person or group discover their beliefs about some topic, exploring the definitions or logoi ( singular logos ), seeking to characterize the general characteristics shared by various particular instances.
The fact is singular.
In fact " any are making the argument that the time has come to state the inevitable or to admit that which already has occurred: There is no longer a cohesive, singular Modern Orthodoxy.
Pierre Varignon responded by pointing out that Rolle had misrepresented the curve, and that the alleged local minima are in fact singular points with a vertical tangent.
It is not known whether the Generalized Suslin Hypothesis is consistent with the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis ; however, since the combination implies the negation of the square principle at a singular strong limit cardinal — in fact, at all singular cardinals and all regular successor cardinals — it implies that the axiom of determinacy holds in L ( R ) and is believed to imply the existence of an inner model with a superstrong cardinal.
As Eddie Brock explained, the Carnage symbiote was born with abilities even more singular than those of its progenitor — due to the fact that it gestated in an environment alien to it — Earth.
The fact that property seemed to be no more sacred to him than life aggravated in a singular degree the resentment of commercial people.
Proving the existence of singular cardinals requires the axiom of replacement, and in fact the inability to prove the existence of in Zermelo set theory is what led Fraenkel to postulate this axiom.
For example, Weil envisioned a cohomology theory for varieties over finite fields with similar power as the usual singular cohomology of topological spaces, but in fact, any constant sheaf on an irreducible variety has trivial cohomology ( all higher cohomology groups vanish ).
This phenomenon of Galois representations is related to the fact that the fundamental group of a topological space acts on the singular cohomology groups, because Grothendieck showed that the Galois group can be regarded as a sort of fundamental group.
The first constraint comes from the fact that Neumann N and Hankel H functions are singular at the origin.
Another aspect of the logic as Boolos defines it, crucial to this bypassing of Russell's paradox, is the fact that sentences of the form are not well-formed: predicate names can only combine with singular variable symbols, not plural variable symbols.
The projection matrix in fact contains rows selected from the weighted left eigenvectors of the singular value decomposition of the following matrix ( generally asymmetric )
However, the picture is complicated by the fact that the absolutive third person singular is expressed by a different suffix depending on whether the ergative subject is in the first or third person.
After Emil Sick died in 1964, and various members of his family shared ownership, the name of the park was changed to reflect that fact, from the singular possessive form " Sick's Stadium " to the plural possessive form " Sicks ' Stadium ".
But then it derives a collateral value from the fact that it is always given either to people of singular distinction, or else to men whose social position is sufficient to make them formidable to the Minister of the day.

fact and forms
In The Law Of Civilization And Decay Brooks Adams traced this evolution, always pointing to the fact that although the forms became more rational, the substance remained unchanged.
Among Christian groups, the Mennonites have commonly been aware more than others of the fact that the nature of divine charity raises decisively the question of the Christian use of all forms of pressure.
This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).
This fact forms the basis for some apoptotic pathways.
During the Cenozoic, mammals proliferated from a few small, simple, generalized forms into a diverse collection of terrestrial, marine, and flying animals, giving this period its other name, the Age of Mammals, despite the fact that birds still outnumbered mammals two to one.
They come in various forms, such as the one pictured, and are often used in science museums to illustrate " radiation pressure " – a scientific principle that they do not in fact demonstrate.
* This is the deepest, most subtle level of dukkha ; it includes " a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all existence, all forms of life, due to the fact that all forms of life are changing, impermanent and without any inner core or substance.
The fact that cognates exist ( such as the German elbinne ) could suggest a West Germanic * alb ( i ) innjo, but this is uncertain, as the examples may be simply a transference to the weak declension common in Southern and Western forms of Middle English.
Instead, a popular theory suggests linguistic updating, which is when " late forms may not in fact have been original to the book but may reflect the updating of vocabulary and grammar by later scribes so their contemporaries could understand the book better.
Giving sincere advice is not, as some may argue, meddling in someone else's business, but is in fact a valuable favor and one of the best forms of charity.
Dukkha suggests a basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all forms of life, due to the fact that all forms of life are impermanent and constantly changing.
There are critics such as Keith Stanovich who do not dispute the stability of IQ test scores or the fact that they predict certain forms of achievement rather effectively.
The origin of the name " linear " comes from the fact that the set of solutions of such an equation forms a straight line in the plane.
Opposition to the use of violence has not prohibited anarcho-pacifists from accepting the principle of resistance or even revolutionary action ( see: non-violent revolution ) provided it does not result in violence ; it was in fact their approval of such forms of opposition to power that lead many anarcho-pacifists to endorse the anarcho-syndicalist concept of the general strike as the great revolutionary weapon.
The changes that took place at the beginning of the 20th-century are emphasized by the fact that many modern disciplines, including sciences such as physics, mathematics, neuroscience and economics, and arts such as ballet and architecture, call their pre-20th century forms classical.
The use of Chinese characters to represent Japanese syllables was in fact the genesis of the modern syllabic kana writing systems, being simplified forms ( hiragana ) or fragments ( katakana ) of the man ' yōgana.
Catholicism is the most highlighted amongst all these forms, having been introduced to the native population and accepted rather easily, despite the fact that Palauans were ardent followers of their traditional faith.
There are many manifestations of these archaic forms in the texts of Plautus ’ plays, in fact too many to completely include them in this article.
Similar to other alkali metals, rubidium metal reacts violently with water, forms amalgams with mercury and alloys with gold, iron, caesium, sodium, and potassium, but not lithium ( despite the fact that rubidium and lithium are in the same group ).
Due to the chemical similarity of the elements, the stable forms of strontium might not pose a significant health threat — in fact, the levels found naturally may actually be beneficial ( see below )-but the radioactive < sup > 90 </ sup > Sr can lead to various bone disorders and diseases, including bone cancer.
Roving bands of hunter-gatherers and even fairly sizable and complex tribal societies based on herding or agriculture have existed without any full-time specialized state organization, and these " stateless " forms of political organization have in fact prevailed for all of the prehistory and much of the history of the human species and civilization.

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