Example sentences of "but in fact there " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in fact there appears to be little a company chairman can do other than try to ride out the fashion of the moment . |
| 2 | But in fact there are two , for , as Hobbes says , ‘ we are the matter and the artificer ’ of the state . |
| 3 | But in fact there are several provisions which , as Poulter puts it , offer ‘ plenty of scope for maintaining the pattern of multi-faith assemblies which schools have followed in recent years ’ . |
| 4 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |
| 5 | But in fact there are two major and important deficiencies with them . |
| 6 | In terms of hard cash the 1964 pie would have cost £250,000 but in fact there was never more than £1,000 in the bank , the sponsorship being in the form of services and goods rather than money . |
| 7 | It involved quick learning of the part , for she would have to appear at the matinée ; but in fact there were few lines to say , and most of the acting involved being laid on a sofa by a young man and proposed to , after various adventures which were mostly physical . |
| 8 | Gaskell made a distinction between intercourse before marriage in agricultural areas , when marriage is tacitly understood as coming later , and the promiscuity of the town , which he condemned , but in fact there was probably little difference , as we shall see . |
| 9 | This may , to some , seem novel , but in fact there are extensive symmetries with shareholders . |
| 10 | I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly . |
| 11 | The things you describe could be classed as fraud and harassment maybe , but in fact there is a murder involved . ’ |
| 12 | There are rules of interpretation which judges are said to follow and which prevent arbitrariness in the process , but in fact there are so many conflicting rules that judges are effectively free to choose which to follow . |
| 13 | But in fact there was very little apart from discussion at the end , that was actually relevant to voluntary services , it was about local government reorganization which was very interesting , for me as a parish councillor . |
| 14 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 15 | ‘ But in fact there 's nothing naïve about what Nicky is doing , as she knows the nature of our relationship perfectly well . |
| 16 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 17 | So the company had supplied ear defenders , they wanted their work force to use those ear defenders erm but in fact there was very little use of them . |
| 18 | The implication has been all along that they 're using the same United States manufacturing source but in fact there are one or two discrepancies here , erm , because the value is so high , I 'm actually sort of going through and looking at everything pretty closely , and they 've changed the basis so wow , . |
| 19 | I should think there 'll be more to do next year , because , you know , four thousand trees sounds like a lot , but in fact there 's thousands upon thousands . |