Example sentences of "fact [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeals from decisions of magistrates ' courts on less serious cases go either , if only a question of law is disputed , to the Divisional Court of the Queen 's Bench Division or , where the appeal is on questions of fact and/or law , to the Crown Court . |
| 2 | I am certain of my facts & calculations ; so there are but two alternatives : either you have spent , not extravagantly , since you are not extravagant , but sillily & thoughtlessly , which really is far worse . |
| 3 | In fact where it has been adopted results suggest that most employees are extremely realistic about their own performance and can indeed make a reasonably accurate assessment . |
| 4 | In fact where toxic substances are odorous , the odour can have a positive effect on health , effectively warning us of their presence . |
| 5 | Some of his soft-ground plates of plants — tree roots and details of vegetation and rocks could have been drawn on the spot , in fact where the reversal of the image was not of importance or obvious . |
| 6 | In fact where there is a great deal of evidence of use , this could be a substitute for poor employment practice which has failed to take account of matching manpower/patient needs . |
| 7 | In fact where r represents the learning rate . |
| 8 | And the novel which got written breathes life into this sentence 's very unpromising warrant for the ‘ truth ’ of what is being told , namely that there are hard facts or perhaps it is just being made up . |
| 9 | As with large tracts of The Possessed this is in effect third-person narrative , recalling the notebook assurance that whether ‘ my ’ story is based on hard facts or has simply been made up , it is all ‘ true ’ . |
| 10 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 11 | Or , again , A has a purely legal claim against B ; but in order to prove his case he wants to make B disclose facts or documents which support A's claims . |
| 12 | When the facts or events I mentioned above are put together in sequence , and when they are set into the background of recent developments , then a different and far more worrying interpretation begins to appear . |
| 13 | Brown 's message is turning into a zealot 's redemption-seeking rant , with scant regard for facts or figures , for his own past record ( ’ I Lobbied : It Was Bad ’ mocked one headline ) , for the need for compromise to make laws , least of all for financial contraints . |
| 14 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 15 | The significance of many particular facts or operations could be perceived only with some background knowledge , which the uninitiated would have little wish or reason to acquire . |
| 16 | We too need to read the Bible in our hearts , rather than simply to discover facts or satisfy our curiosity . |
| 17 | complex facts or ideas must be communicated simply and there is a risk that the written word will fail in this |
| 18 | A distinction may be observed between ‘ style ’ in books of imaginative literature , and ‘ style ’ in works where the main purpose is the efficient communication of facts or ideas . |
| 19 | Equally , the content of one book may be superseded by another entirely different work containing new facts or a more modern approach . |
| 20 | I would also like to point out that antivivisection organisations , do not hatch up their facts or repeat facts out of the air ; they come from individuals as knowledgeable as any vivisectionist . |
| 21 | How much better it is when any facts or pieces of information come from you yourself . |
| 22 | A document , as distinct from a manuscript , implies something official or designed to set out facts or points of view . |
| 23 | 9.1.3 undertakes that it will promptly disclose to the other Parties and to the Secretary of State any facts or circumstances which come to its attention indicating or suggesting any infringement or material risk of infringement of any patent or other Intellectual Property Right of any other person not being a Party to this Agreement through the expected mode of use or exploitation of its own results or background provided always that this undertaking shall not be deemed to impose or imply any specific obligation to undertake any patent searches of intellectual property rights or make any enquiries . |
| 24 | Lakoff had labelled as ‘ illegitimate ’ those tags — allegedly very common in women 's speech — that call for confirmation of facts or opinions for which the speaker is the only real authority . |
| 25 | The learning process consists of the acquisition of adaptive knowledge in the form of new facts or new strategies . |
| 26 | As Hildyard and Olson put it : ‘ the authority of rhetorical conditions are collapsed onto the truth conditions so that if a statement is true to the facts or to the text itself , that is sufficient condition for its being interpersonally appropriate ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) . |
| 27 | Dewey then identified the characteristics of practical judgments in terms of their tentative and hypothetical character and suggested that we may often misjudge what is to be done either because we have overlooked relevant facts or misinterpreted them or because we have misjudged the best course of action to be followed . |
| 28 | It has been in the initial stage in which wishing prevails over thinking , generalisation over observation , and in which little attempt is made at a critical analysis of existing facts or available means . |
| 29 | In that case , Lipsey 's diagram includes a further moment of choice , in the box in Figure 3.1 where ‘ the theory appears to be either inconsistent with the facts or consistent with the facts ’ . |
| 30 | That is not to say that we shall take dispositional mental facts or what is called the unconscious or the subconscious to be " another realm of consciousness " that we shall suppose there is consciousness and then inaccessible consciousness and then the brain , the latter involving dispositional mental facts . |