Example sentences of "that [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wanting to dare is his opposite number to the underground man 's wanting to want , because whereas wanting to want holds fast to the earlier novel 's metaphysical spareness and abstraction , wanting to dare opens up the whole huge circumstance of the murder itself , the thing that in fact gets done . |
| 2 | How much of the great-sinner project remained unachieved and how much dissolved itself into the books that in fact got written , can be debated endlessly . |
| 3 | Most tellingly , in his Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) he coerces Propertius into avowing anti-Virgilian sentiments that in fact Propertius did not profess . |
| 4 | He ‘ hoped that the strategic assumption that it was vital to us to keep open the Mediterranean and that in fact we could , should be re-examined . |
| 5 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 6 | He would prefer us to be in the position of the person who learns to trust that a friend has posted a letter , and who does not go out to be certain that the letter has found its destination , a search that in fact would portray not faith , but a lack of faith . |
| 7 | Yet I think that in fact they can make life easier for mother and baby . |
| 8 | However , in less formal talks with conductors and lecturers , and in a discussion led by Dr Maria Hari , it became apparent that in fact there are some concessions . |
| 9 | This flux depresses narrative reflection ( ‘ … it was almost impossible to come to a conclusion about one 's own flow and that in fact this was a contradiction in terms since one was precisely one 's own flow … ’ |
| 10 | Yes indeed , I mean many argue that in fact a law was n't required , and that the common law , as it 's developed and grown and , for example , in the Quinlan case , says that the withdrawal of treatment , the withholding of consent to treatment , is entirely lawful ; and some might argue that , by giving a law like this , which is rather narrowly drawn , you 've taken away a lot ; in other words , a doctor will feel , this I can do , but the other I ca n't do . |
| 11 | Nevertheless a close inspection of entries in — for instance — BNB , shows that in fact a good deal of information is contained there . |
| 12 | Was the Falklands element in that committee and its back-up staff so peripheral , so much of a backburner issue , that in fact it gives a false impression of it ? |
| 13 | It is possible that in fact the true Shetland breed disappeared by the 1950s but the type persists . |
| 14 | There was a growing feeling that the second minister on the Circuit should be free to concentrate his energies on the Edenderry district and that in fact the No 2 Manse should be at should be at this end of the town . |
| 15 | This is supported by Dodson 's ( 1973 ) work , although he concluded that so little water movement was needed to transport small animal bone that in fact transported assemblages are little use for palaeoecological reconstruction . |
| 16 | The irony , however , is that in fact the new system is more likely to increase central control over , and funding of , local spending , instead of allowing for local variation , accountability and choice . |
| 17 | It is not possible or necessary to consider this question fully here , but a consideration of the texts of Scaevola shows that in fact he too took account of the scientia of buyers when considering the availability of missio . |
| 18 | Studies have shown that in fact the over-heating did take place in the top of the pot . |
| 19 | I think experience shows that in fact the opposite situation is much more prevalent . |
| 20 | A leading fashion editor suggests that in fact we have too many , rather than too few , clothes . |
| 21 | Yet a brief perusal of the central details of Wand 's career to date confirms that in fact his commitment to new music was paramount from the time he began to rebuild musical life in Cologne in the early post-war years . |
| 22 | I thought that I had finished third , but when I studied the television slow-motion replay on the stadium scoreboard I could see that in fact Ray had won the bronze medal . |
| 23 | He said that in fact the gulden was very healthy , that no cunning ploy against Polish business had been intended , and that everything would be well again within two months . |
| 24 | But evidence collected in a University survey suggests that many couples not only regret parting but wish that in fact breaking up was somewhat harder . |
| 25 | Mr Kray spoke up in reply from his fortified Nottingham retreat to say that in fact Mr McVitie 's remains are to be found in Whitstable Bay , Kent . |
| 26 | It could even be argued that in the special circumstances of colonialism the judicial system was biased against mainstream groups in order to increase the state 's control over them , and that in fact the poor and marginal , as in all societies , committed most crime . |
| 27 | ( There are reports that in fact No. 17 was substituted for No. 5 and became 349 , because it had cushion seats . |
| 28 | In the United States , however , it is precisely because churches are so full , and wealthy , that it is not easy to see that in fact secularisation in the form of ‘ laicisation ’ has gripped the church by the throat . |
| 29 | The point about his vulnerability over his son was not mentioned specifically ; but they learned that in fact that youth was not the only hostage , for Edward had subsequently demanded that a selection of the citizenry be yielded up also , including some mere children . |
| 30 | Could it be that our assumption that matter and energy are returned to the Universe in discrete regions is wrong , that in fact they are returned piecemeal all over the Universe ? |