Example sentences of "fact a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 2 | It was in fact a butterfly , tawny orange like a tiger with a purple and black lace frill to its wings . |
| 3 | Scott was in fact a poet of considerable skill himself a founding father , no less , of Canada 's emerging poetry movement , and the doyen of poetry in Montreal , which has produced so many excellent poets . |
| 4 | He 's half and half , in fact a little bit more English if you weigh it up . ’ |
| 5 | It is in fact a table , with hinging top , of about 36in diameter . |
| 6 | During the early part of the day in Prague , East Germans waited quietly , apparently believing that the crowd outside the embassy was in fact a queue . |
| 7 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 8 | Belief in its importance is in fact a consequence of the recognition that people , including priests , are fallible , so that the right to challenge their views is a necessary condition of arriving at valid opinions . |
| 9 | In fact a statement of human rights is either a description of a society or a critique of a society . |
| 10 | Although ostensibly a welfare organisation Gema was in fact a political party within KANU with Kiambu as its nerve centre , but with political retainers throughout the Republic among every tribe . |
| 11 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 12 | Though this idea was ultimately caused by economic and technical developments , and is in fact a misrepresentation of social relations , the idea is real enough to the people concerned . |
| 13 | The problem raised by this theoretical paradox was of significance not only for these particular instances , however important they were in themselves ; it was in fact a challenge to the whole theoretical edifice which Marx and Engels were constructing . |
| 14 | The rear-wheel-drive XR4i , which preceded the XR4x4 , is now a minor classic in the making and is in fact a far superior performer to the 4x4 . |
| 15 | The ‘ benefit ’ was in fact a deferred payment , which both tied a player to a single club and was of no value to those who through loss of form or injury were not able to serve the county for a long enough period . |
| 16 | He sees exuberant , and perhaps sensual , pleasure in the natural world , of the kind which he once described so lyrically in letters to Arthur Greeves ( there is in fact a letter about bathing in the rain at Parson 's Pleasure ) ; now such stuff seems to him ‘ Nazi ’ . |
| 17 | In acting terms , the production is in fact a strange mixture of precision and coarseness . |
| 18 | By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial . |
| 19 | Was Time magazine 's recent dissection of feminism in fact a postmortem ? |
| 20 | Although castellated and towered at the front , the Castle is in fact a perfectly ordinary farmhouse behind the façade , and its rear elevation is plain and workmanlike . |
| 21 | According to the Klaus camp , the Liberal Club is in fact a group of left-wingers bent on slowing the pace of reform . |
| 22 | And most bankers have come to understand that their trade is in fact a collection of diverse lines of business , each with its own and quite different economies of scale . |
| 23 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 24 | Although the authors call them letters they are in fact a form of communication we call prayer . |
| 25 | Mosley was in fact a highly gifted playboy . |
| 26 | In fact a series of public opinion polls , conducted between February 1938 and January 1939 revealed that between 57 and 78 per cent of those who expressed an opinion favoured sympathy for the Republican government , and even a willingness to take action against Franco 's fascists . |
| 27 | In fact a thread of coarseness runs through the powertrain , making itself felt particularly during clutch engagement and when the motor 's spinning hard . |
| 28 | In fact a purely bark-based compost should be available soon . |
| 29 | What they will say , and probably are already saying , is that no matter what else may be dissimilar there is in fact a shared experience , a shared guilt , a similar anguish or torment , an identity of sin and shame and former behaviour between Miller and myself . |
| 30 | First there were the stories that Kylie was in fact a complete fabrication . |