Example sentences of "fact the " in BNC.

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1 It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books .
2 In fact the props of the speech are important and not too difficult to use to help your presentation .
3 In fact the dream that we all had about Great Britain acknowledging it 's theatre and funding it properly has suffered a lot of setbacks since the ‘ sixties ’ .
4 The most important thing in fact the clear glass .
5 In fact the leisure facility is a minefield of safety , legal , and operational problems that , unless addressed in a professional manner , can cause catastrophic consequences .
6 In fact the service would be nearly over , if Cameron and Menzies had timed it right .
7 In fact The Crack is a much more interesting climb than the name would suggest .
8 In fact the street names and the rest belong with the extremely important disjunctive flotsam of the book : paintpots , old rope , the odd sock , boots that once belonged to the Secretary at the English Embassy , twists of paper , egg-shells , fish-guts , frayed blood-soaked strips torn from trouserbottoms and coat-pockets , an axe-sling in ribbons ( ‘ Little bits of tom linen can not possibly arouse suspicion ! , ’ ) half-eaten meals , small change , miscellaneous pawned objects , candle-ends , trousseau-stuff ( ‘ fancy boxes , dressing-cases , ornaments , dress material , and all that sort of junk from Knopf 's and the English Shop ’ ) broken crocks ( cherepki ) , and skulls ( cherepi ) .
9 On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot .
10 And I answer , breaking the bank of all banks , busting Plato 's very Idea of a bank ; and also being cleaned out absolutely — but absolutely : body , mind , immortal soul : in fact the Dostoevsky apocalypse where all shall be revealed , where crisis is clarity .
11 In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ .
12 The galaxy , known as IRAS F10214+4724 , is in fact the most luminous object ever found in the universe .
13 However , he has never stated that this was in fact the case .
14 In fact the Aubeterre that Pound means is Aubeterre-sur-Dronne not in Poitou at all but southward , in Perigord .
15 In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest .
16 But in fact the metaphor ‘ step ’ , implying tread , implies also volition and direction .
17 In fact the Senate is important , but for quite different reasons .
18 In fact the Cheese Shot Skit — my all-time favourite — owes its life to him .
19 In fact the second piece , Remembrance , maintains its ritualistic continuity more through the long-held lines in the background than in the sombre broken utterances of the solo trombone .
20 In fact the Central Statistical Office 's view is that the published deficit overstates the real level by no more than £2bn or £3bn .
21 The French are attracted by the fact the Magic Kingdom and the proposed second theme park are to be located at Marne-la-Valee near Paris , the heavy involvement of the French government and the existence of theme parks such as the Asterix near Paris .
22 In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left .
23 The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population .
24 In fact the whole financial framework of NEP was shaky , and much of it was brought in piecemeal on ad hoc lines , as was the case with the vital currency reforms .
25 In fact the leather is softer than in many boots on the market and so the rest of the breaking in was painless .
26 In fact the ‘ decision ’ is not a decision at all , but an acceptance of things as they are .
27 In fact the principal political significance of incomes policy is as a device for transferring responsibility from the Government to others , something which politicians are expert at doing — which indeed is necessary for their survival .
28 It is in fact the privilege of dramatic poetry to be able to show us several planes of reality at once . ’
29 In fact the only parts that worked were the radio and the sound on the television .
30 That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , '
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