Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [prep] fact [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One of these clients was in fact still at home in March 1989 .
2 It is doubly ironic that Philip 's sense of intellectual and spiritual degradation is in fact very like Eliot 's , and his life risks being as impoverished and as meaningless as Sweeney 's minimalist ‘ brass tacks ’ scenario .
3 When benefits in kind are considered , the balance of the redistribution is in fact significantly in favour of the most prosperous households that typically enjoy more take-up of education through children staying on at school and more benefits with regard to health care .
4 The organism was in fact far from being healthy .
5 But Bakker in reply says cartilage is in fact better for absorbing shocks and for building up hydrostatic pressure .
6 Casualties among some batteries were in fact often at least as high as among the infantry .
7 Thus such monarchs were in fact profoundly in touch with reality .
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