Example sentences of "[verb] in fact [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that the money that was threatened for housing associations which was an important element in structure , the government has in fact included it in the forthcoming budget , so that is encouraging , that aspect of it . |
| 2 | The effect would be similar to something like and they did in fact publicize it in English , except that the verb in Arabic would be in theme position ( literally : qad publicize-they-it in fact ) . |
| 3 | A further small point : we may have been taught at school to avoid ending written sentences with a preposition , but the above sentence , apart from replacing ‘ commence ’ by ‘ begin ’ , sounds more natural if we do in fact end it with the preposition . |
| 4 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 5 | He had in fact conducted it with a somewhat surprising degree of determination . |
| 6 | He realised that the cuts forced on the production had in fact helped it . |
| 7 | Today , we have not only halted the upward trend but have in fact reversed it , so that our costs are declining in real terms . |
| 8 | The determination of the effect of the rules made by regulatory bodies operating in the public law sphere on common law and equitable rights and duties depends on two factors : ( 1 ) whether the regulatory bodies have been given authority to make rules altering private law rights ; and ( 2 ) if there is such authority , whether they have in fact exercised it when making their rules . |