Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English were in fact trying to claim the authentic characteristics of a nation irrespective of how it was defined , including an attempt to cover English claims over Scotland and Ireland , despite the absence of any ‘ habit of unity ’ in the former case or of a shared language in the latter . |
| 2 | The French were in fact asking for 270 billion francs and it was hard to see how the distinction could be made between helping to improve the French position in Europe and the position in Vietnam . |
| 3 | However , he has never stated that this was in fact the case . |
| 4 | I never did find out if this was in fact some relation of Boy 's , his Grandfather perhaps , or whether the resemblance between the now-dead soldier and Boy was merely a coincidence . |
| 5 | This was in fact a propaganda exercise to bring home to the men in the street the looming realities of total war : cast iron was not of any use in manufacturing guns or tanks . |
| 6 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 7 | This was in fact done circa 1830 by Robiquet and Boutron-Charland and the cancericidal effect reported in 1845 . |
| 8 | That month saw a new invasion alarm , as a French fleet cruised up and down the Channel under Admiral D'Orvilliers and a large French army under Marshal de Broglie was assembled at Vaussieux in Normandy , though this was in fact only a routine ‘ camp of exercise ’ . |
| 9 | Whether this was in fact the first is not really known , nor is it known how or why the tradition started , but Mr Hector Buckley ( in whose barn the 1964 pie was made and which had to be partially demolished to get the pie out ) has a theory about this . |
| 10 | If this was in fact the case , it makes Rolle 's aversion to church music more understandable . |
| 11 | This was in fact the original explanation proposed by Linsky and Haisch . |
| 12 | This was in fact contested not only by Edward I , but by Roger-Bernard III of Foix , acting as Constance of Marsan 's proctor , in October 1292 . |
| 13 | This was in fact found to be the case with all four methods discussed here . |
| 14 | For the literate group of women who might be expected to read magazines , this was in fact a transitional period : freed to a greater extent than ever before from the shadow of death , this was not yet the time of the educated lay interest in infant psychology which was soon to be aroused by Montessori , Froebel , Susan Isaacs and the Freudians generally ; nor had the hygienist movement yet got under way . |
| 15 | Ironically , while many rescue workers and feminists saw domestic service as a solution for unattached young girls , this was in fact one of the main sources of prostitution . |
| 16 | In the early twelfth century this was in fact the cathedral town of the Ross diocese , superseded in the following century by Fortrose . |
| 17 | Erm , this was in fact something you know , coming from , I think the feminist movement and very much a a it was quite new for middle class women to go out and work , and you know they are now aghast that they 're you know , having to juggle all these things but these were traditions that had in fact , been handed down . |
| 18 | Of the many exercises we took part in during the course , this was in fact one which members of the group remembered most clearly . |
| 19 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |
| 20 | They replied ( 10 June , ie BEFORE we started work ) that this was in fact correct , since the work would be covered under Class III a of the Class Consent Order 1981 . |
| 21 | This was in fact , the state in which he thought er animals er existed , and it was the condition to which he believed humans beings would be reduced , were it not for the mechanisms that maintain social order . |
| 22 | Yet this was in fact a pseudo-problem because Catholics do not worship Mary , but honour her as mother of the Christ whom they do worship . |
| 23 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 24 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | But then he went on to say that this was in fact a sin , because if I wanted to give my all to God then the things that I did n't like doing or showing , I had to do . |
| 26 | The year 1439 was in fact one of the worst periods of famine in the fifteenth century ; it had followed a harvest failure , brought about by heavy rains over the whole country throughout the summer of 1438 . |
| 27 | The situation which had developed in 1747 was in fact identical with that of 1726 , with one friend in opposition to another , and the politician being asked to choose between them . |
| 28 | Because of the cleverness of the script , they assumed that these were in fact proper news broadcasts . |
| 29 | These were in fact the old single deck Subway cars rebodied . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , if men such as these were in fact the local recruiting agents , not all were equipped for the job ; Nicholas Hill of Oakham , though servant to no less a figure than the king , possessed neither arms nor armour . |