Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] fact be [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It must in fact be fit and safe … |
| 2 | With this in mind , what methods should in fact be familiar to you ? |
| 3 | He 's sort of saying , he 's justifying it in , in a very Marxist way , he said this is our duty , what we 're doing is , is , is natural , it 's a process of , of his history you know that there 's nothing we can do avoid this and we should in fact be pleased to see th th this actually taking place , it 's er it 's not a question at all of , of the parents going , peasants going too far , it 's not er a reign of terror at all , erm in fact more than that it , it 's a sort of erm it , it 's not even retribution i it 's a , it 's a course of history . |
| 4 | Yes that might in fact be practical in |
| 5 | Donnellan ( 1966 ) began by noting a distinction between two usages of definite descriptions ( inter alia , noun phrases in English with the determiner the ) : ( 18 ) The man drinking champagne is Lord Godolphin ( 19 ) The man who can lift this stone is stronger than an ox The first would most naturally have a referential use , where the description might in fact be wrong ( e.g. the man is actually drinking lemonade ) but the reference succeed in any case ; the second would most naturally have an attributive use where the speaker would not have any particular individual in mind ( we could paraphrase ( 19 ) as " whoever can lift this stone is stronger than an ox " ) . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's the one characteristic about you that might in fact be positive . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of the fears about large-scale immigration could in fact be self-fulfilling , since an antipathetic attitude towards incomers could create the conditions of dissatisfaction and unhappiness amongst immigrants that will cause both a high turnover and disharmony between Shetlanders and immigrants … ’ |
| 8 | Of course , the fact that a price may be constant over a given interval of time may not itself mean that it is inflexible ; the price could be equal to its equilibrium value and the latter could in fact be constant as well . |
| 9 | He suggests that the ‘ unfamiliar ’ release sites of pigeons may in fact be familiar , and the pigeons home using remembered landmarks and home cues ( whether visual , auditory , olfactory , or magnetic ) . |
| 10 | Arguments such as these for the functional necessity of a category of ‘ crime ’ are quite different from arguments that particular activities defined as criminal may in fact be beneficial to society . |
| 11 | Stress reflected in a staff shortage may in fact be due to a shortage of space . |
| 12 | The SROs may in fact be subject to ‘ regulatory capture ’ , where an initially independent body set up to police a particular form of business is ‘ captured ’ by the very institutions it is trying to regulate , and becomes a lobby or mouthpiece working on behalf of the industry . |
| 13 | ( 1981 ) ) and to note the possibility ( to be taken up shortly ) that the mechanisms responsible for the DOE may in fact be responsible for the effects that have been observed in orthodox studies of acquired distinctiveness . |
| 14 | There may in fact be little street credibility for the intentions and claims of the school , for example it 's no good boasting of an open door policy if people feel intimidated and never come across the playground . |
| 15 | erm If you further make things difficult from the point of view of actually banning imports of timber from Uganda you may in fact be able . |
| 16 | When I suggest to Hopkins that many abductees could in fact be drawing on repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse and , as a result of bad hypnosis , end up believing mistakenly that they were messed around with by aliens instead , he agrees it 's a possibility , but then argues that some cases of childhood sexual abuse may in fact be alien abductions . |
| 17 | More than 70 British beaches have been omitted from the latest edition of the Marine Conservation Society 's authoritative Good Beach Guide after new research suggests that waters previously considered safe may in fact be hazardous to health The research , carried out by the Departments of Health and Environment , reveals that previous UK standards were too lax . |
| 18 | The abolition of one or other of the energy standing charges has been a popular mission for many people for many years , but abolition would undoubtedly lead to a higher unit cost and as many of the most vulnerable people use the most electricity or the most fuel generally , they would in fact be net losers and not net beneficiaries . |
| 19 | For the purposes of analysing intonation , a unit generally greater in size than the syllable is needed , and this unit is called the tone-unit ; in its smallest form the tone-unit may consist of only one syllable , so it would in fact be wrong to say that it is always composed of more than one syllable . |
| 20 | We would also like to point out that minority interest programmes will in fact be available on the BBC Home Video label if there seems likely to be enough demand . |
| 21 | But further concessions from these states to Soviet military requirements will in fact be difficult to justify while Soviet officials routinely castigate other developing states for their military concessions to the West . |
| 22 | There is now evidence that misting the flowers with water , formerly thought to help setting , can in fact be counter-productive . |