Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [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 Congress had been elected in March 1990 [ see p. 37322 , where it is misleadingly referred to as the republican Supreme Soviet , this being in fact the name of the standing legislature elected from the Congress ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Some say this is in fact useful because it keeps people busy at a time when , as we have seen , it is probably too painful to have time on your hands to sit and reflect . |
| 5 | This is in fact a copy of the one stolen by the Swedes in 1648 and now gracing the gardens at Drottningholm Castle . |
| 6 | This is in fact a straightforward generalization of a theorem of Penrose ( 1965b ) ( see also Hawking and Ellis 1973 , p.263 ) . |
| 7 | ( 11.5 ) With this , the line element ( 11.4 ) can be written in the form ( 11.6 ) and the two main equations ( 6.22d , e ) can be written as the single complex equation ( 11.7 ) It may be seen that this is in fact Ernst 's equation , which can be written in the coordinate-invariant form ( 11.8 ) where is the square of the gradient of an arbitrary scalar field which , in this case , is a function of the two ( null ) coordinates only . |
| 8 | This is in fact what happens in some countries , eg the USA , Scandinavia , the Netherlands , Germany etc , though not in other countries , eg the UK . |
| 9 | You may also have to pay if you 'd locked yourself out and wanted help getting back indoors ( this is in fact the only thing the London fire brigade ever charges for , and it would cost you about £99 ) . |
| 10 | This is in fact a deliberate tactic which is frequently exercised . |
| 11 | Many practitioners use the phrase ‘ professional clearance ’ , but this is in fact a misnomer . |
| 12 | Because , as George Bush 's remark so neatly illustrates , this is in fact what tends to happen . |
| 13 | The program can suggest a list of alternative words and allow the user to choose a substitute , the user can edit the file to correct the word , or the user can confirm that this is in fact a correctly spelled word , and should be added to the program 's dictionary . |
| 14 | There is certainly accumulating circumstantial evidence to suggest that this is in fact the case . |
| 15 | Some 400 years old , this is in fact the oldest building in the bustling market area of the Via Nazionale and the decor and ambience reflect that history . |
| 16 | And to test whether this is in fact true of how scientists think , the only way to work is to observe , not oneself as a student doing discovery learning , but scientists themselves . |
| 17 | I have had my own opinion confirmed with the advice from the business convenor and the vice convenor , and that is that we determine that this is in fact a counter motion that you have spoken to because it is against the spirit of the deliverance . |
| 18 | This is in fact a correct use of the subjunctive mood , which used to be known to writers and sub-editors , and even to publishers and booksellers . |
| 19 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |
| 20 | This is in fact a version of the familiar conservative ‘ critique of mass culture ’ , strongly marked by the influence of F.R. Leavis , G.K. Chesterton and McLuhan 's own Catholicism , and by his constant search for a reborn ‘ organic wholeness ’ of spirit . |
| 21 | And un unfor , and this is in fact is why indeed , general practitioners and even specialists find it very complex ! |
| 22 | This is in fact the case for the great majority of congenital abnormalities in Hungary . |
| 23 | This theory — proposed by P.F. Strawson ( op. cit. ) — rests on the premiss that we possess the idea of a single spatio-temporal system of material things in which every such thing , at any time , is spatially related in various ways to every other similar thing , and that this is in fact the " conceptual scheme " we use and rely on in making the world intelligible to ourselves . |
| 24 | This is in fact the statutory definition under Scottish law , but the English decisions hardly go so far , for the fact that the assets on realisation would not repay the debentures in full has been held insufficient . |
| 25 | According to , depute clerk of session and secretary to the working party , ‘ there are perceptions that the process is slow but senior law officers have received no particular complaints so it will set out first to test these perceptions by asking if this is in fact the case . ’ |
| 26 | I have been led to believe that you act as Public Relations Advisor to certain landowners within Highland Region , and should value an opportunity to discuss with you , initially very informally , certain projects for the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland which which I am involved , if this is in fact the case ? |
| 27 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |
| 28 | As this is in fact used as the Parish Burial Ground and not restricted to members of St Peter 's church they feel that responsibility for its upkeep should not be left to a relatively small number of volunteers . |
| 29 | This is in fact the implicit approach of some observational methods as we shall see in Chapter 6 . |
| 30 | This is in fact more important from the company management point of view than the notion of building up funds to replace assets at a given date . |