Example sentences of "fact a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact a moderate policy continued after the war but there was increasing cases of the landlords manipulating peasants in order to evade rent reductions . |
| 2 | However , Moon have also added a third rotary which is in fact a five-way switch . |
| 3 | In fact a recent readers ’ survey commissioned by the relatively diminutive Sunday Telegraph found that the average Telegraph reader spends 61 minutes skimming its 48 pages while the Sunday Times reader spends on average just 10 minutes more wading through its vast encyclopaedic bulk . |
| 4 | It was rather disappointing to grow up and find out that the sun did n't give a monkey 's testicle whether it came out or not , but was in fact a non-sentient mass of gases radiating heat and light to earth , except in Scotland . |
| 5 | Looking like the sort of accessories children may use in their doctors and nurses games , these rubbers with a white cross on the side are in fact a serious attempt from Switzerland to promote safer sex . |
| 6 | Moreover , the pre-arranged trade is reported and perhaps published as a competitively-determined transaction , when it is not in fact a genuine product of the competitive forces of supply and demand on the exchange . |
| 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 | Easy-going and seemingly indolent , he was in fact a prodigious worker with an obsession for his job . |
| 9 | It would be all very well if the Book Trade were not in fact a vast collection of individual trading interests . |
| 10 | Of course , in many cases this rigidity is perfectly justified — the notion that the Moon is in fact a vast spaceship placed in Earth-orbit millions of years ago by visiting extraterrestrials has , shall we say , little in its favour . |
| 11 | In fact a Greek-American agreement was concluded in 1983 governing the status of the United States bases in Greece until December 1988 . |
| 12 | First there were the stories that Kylie was in fact a complete fabrication . |
| 13 | It has in fact a complete absence of energy . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
| 15 | This is in fact a correct use of the subjunctive mood , which used to be known to writers and sub-editors , and even to publishers and booksellers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The powerplant was in fact a coupled pair of liquid-cooled Aichi Atsuta 30s that developed 3,400hp . |
| 18 | In acting terms , the production is in fact a strange mixture of precision and coarseness . |
| 19 | And I mean it was a difficult start , and I was in fact a junior detective for five and a half years before any alteration was made in the staff , there was no promotions or leaving so that as junior detective for five and a half years , I got all jobs that nobody else wanted |
| 20 | Here it becomes clear that this route from Morar is in fact a simple passage to a valley draining east to less harsh landscapes ahead . |
| 21 | erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was . |
| 22 | The Arterial Roads Conference for Greater London in 1913 was in fact a regional plan , but the link between transport , city planning and civic design remained imperfect both in principle and practice . |
| 23 | Lord Weir told McCormack : ‘ It is only due to the fact a young boy saw what you did and , with some little risk to himself , removed the trolleys that an accident which might or might not have been serious , was avoided . ’ |
| 24 | It is in fact a general feature of colliding electromagnetic plane waves that gravitational waves are always generated by the collision . |
| 25 | There is in fact a general danger that ‘ good ’ records will turn out to look remarkably similar to one another , ‘ bad ’ records made up only for non-conformists , individualists , or those who are in some way social or school ‘ loners ’ . |
| 26 | It is fortunate for the further success of the breed that the liaison between these two animals did not produce fruit , except on one occasion , since the bitch was in fact a long coat , and thus unable to be registered with the ADRK . |
| 27 | It was in fact a long time before all the rabbits had come back to the hollow in the middle of the field . |
| 28 | So , although the watch seems to supply a constant and exact reading of time , it is in fact a discontinuous display . |
| 29 | If a circumstance cc was in fact a causal circumstance for an event e , then one of the following criteria was satisfied . |
| 30 | Erm in fact a similar effect happens , I 'll be mentioning this in the lecture but let me just mention it now . |