Example sentences of "[verb] in fact [conj] [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember in fact if there was a Transport official there . |
| 2 | and sought advice , and we were told in fact that we were unlikely to get this because the headmaster of the particular school which he attended |
| 3 | It mean in fact that they were thinking of abstractions in quite a different way from the way we think of them . |
| 4 | They are saying in fact that there is no truth outside or beyond the concrete historical events in which men are involved as agents [ and ] there is therefore no knowledge except in action itself , in the process of transforming the world through participating in history . |
| 5 | I believe in fact that we are experiencing a ‘ renationalisation ’ of art history . |
| 6 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 7 | It seems in fact that she is immortal — for how would the bishop manage without her kindly meant tyranny ? — but no ! she dies , and with her , for me , the most interesting character . |
| 8 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |