Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor am I suggesting that these strategies are in fact used by professional translators in any significant way ; one has to acknowledge that , in spite of being available in theory , they are in fact rarely used in practice . |
| 2 | We shall need to extend these to more general statements in what follows , but the above definitions are in fact what are used when actual measurements are made on real materials . |
| 3 | Both reactivities are in fact uncommon in autoimmune chronic hepatitis . |
| 4 | Such contracts are in fact very similar to self-employed pension plans , with the same choice of vehicles : unit linked , deposit administration , with profits and non-profit . |
| 5 | Japanese producers of cars and many other products are in fact already behaving as if Fortress Europe is a reality — that is to say they are setting up full-scale manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 6 | Relatively few government securities are held , and although overseas securities grew in the 1980's , European equities are in fact a relatively small proportion of the total . |
| 7 | The problem , even for these simple situations , is to validate the proposed hierarchies in the sense of confirming ( or not ) that lower steps are in fact prerequisites for higher ones and in what sense they are prerequisites . |
| 8 | Indeed this emphasis has persisted into a period where , in the new media , large-scale organizations are in fact available for analysis . |
| 9 | It is a refreshing change when cars are in fact parked in a separate , but linked area allowing the front garden to be developed along slightly different lines . |
| 10 | These performances are in fact infused with fascinating experimental effects , possibly doubtful historically and successful in different degrees . |
| 11 | ‘ Words are for facts . |
| 12 | His harshest words are in fact directed at the Serbian Army . |
| 13 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 14 | This stereotype need not be wholly linguistic , indeed , according to Bell ( 1984 : 168 ) " Speakers are in fact able to respond to personal characteristics alone , when speech differs from a speaker 's expectations of a given addressee . " |
| 15 | Experiments show that when words or letters are presented very briefly , subjects are in fact sometimes able to report what letter or word they have seen but not whether it was upper or lowercase ( Coltheart and Freeman , 1974 ; McClelland , 1976 ; Adams , 1979 ; Friedman , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | In conclusion , one has to wonder whether the borders are in fact open . |
| 17 | The Meteor Crater and Revelstoke bolides are in fact known from recovered material to have had these identities . |
| 18 | I take it that the honourable gentlemen are in fact cheering the government , thank you very much . |
| 19 | Such books are in fact mainly concerned with systems of cosmological belief . |
| 20 | Although Mr Tribe and Mrs Gordon are on hand to supervise , the weekend sessions are in fact the responsibility of the senior Rangers aged between 17 and early 20s , together with junior instructors . |
| 21 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 22 | Leaseholders long since obtained remedies for the specific recovery of their land : and those remedies were in fact far superior to the old real actions . |
| 23 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 24 | Clearchus of Soli , another pupil of Aristotle , who must have read his Megasthenes , went a step further and suggested that the Jews were in fact the descendants of the philosophers of India , whom he called Kalanoi . |
| 25 | The book raised a storm of controversy , and two of the authors were in fact tried for heresy ( though finally acquitted ) . |
| 26 | But such a procedure would simply have led to the conclusion that the investigator had failed to elicit environments where the variable could be studied , and would miss the point that speakers were in fact making use of an entirely different range of choices to express stylistic differences . |
| 27 | Edward pushed forward the bounds of secular authority usually in reaction to some clerical move or in defence of the needs and customs of royal government ; but as much as by the king this boundary was advanced by his subjects , whether suing for their individual rights and interests through the king 's courts or acting as royal justices , and not a few of these aggressive subjects were in fact clergy themselves . |
| 28 | ( In fact Boy had n't been hit in the face by O. As I said , that white skin marked easily , and Boy 's eyes were in fact just bruised with fatigue , with six sleepless nights in a row . |
| 29 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 30 | If Tory supporters were in fact more likely to vote than those of other parties , a more refined analysis might have picked it up . |