Example sentences of "but [art] fact [is] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may regard me as an amateur but the fact is that , due to physical difficulties , I can not pull and twist in a horizontal mode and so I invoked gravity to assist . |
| 2 | But the fact is that the golf writers have , in the recent past , been thoroughly spoiled for choice . |
| 3 | But the fact is that organic cheese is fine , but unpasteurised organic cheese , with all the flavour not purged by pasteurisation , is far finer . |
| 4 | Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] . |
| 5 | But the fact is that most traditional streets are indeed largely a collection of facades . |
| 6 | But the fact is that , unless the present lack of respect for the universities of the country can be remedied , education as a whole will not be respected ; and if it is not respected , then it will not improve . |
| 7 | But the fact is that there might be persons eager to oppose the operation of the trust , and vested interests in declaring that no legal intention could be seen in the words used by the testator . |
| 8 | But the fact is that such tests are done on single chemicals , never on mixtures . |
| 9 | It is hard for some owners to accept that this noise means ‘ I am inoffensive ’ rather than ‘ I am content ’ , but the fact is that inoffensiveness is the only condition to explain all the different contexts in which the purr occurs . |
| 10 | Comparisons at this level of guitar-building are difficult ; you 're welcome to argue the relative merits of Lowden , Martin , Santa Cruz , Taylor , old Fyldes and so on until you 're blue in the face , but the fact is that they 're all different guitars which excel in different areas . |
| 11 | In a perfect world , perhaps that would be the case , but the fact is that Japan is at present responsible for some of the finest guitars available , and the Fuji Gen factory , from which the Starfield Japanese range comes , is home to the best of the best . |
| 12 | But the fact is that the very lack of evidence seems to fan the flames of suspicion . |
| 13 | All the money I have earned over the years has gone — in some cases I do n't why or where — but the fact is that at the age of 40 , I have no savings . |
| 14 | But the fact is that a Hunt victory was not on the Ferrari books if they had ceded — after a re-start which looked as though it favoured Hunt — they would have been lynched in Italy , where only a Ferrari is allowed to win . |
| 15 | James denied it categorically , but the fact is that after a small part of another season in Walter Wolf 's car , Master James gave up the sport with relief . |
| 16 | According to the apprentice chef , the Royal Oak is a good place to learn one 's trade — ‘ Chef knows what he 's doing and is prepared to help you , but he does n't push you too hard ’ — though the commis chef criticizes Tom for not being adventurous enough — ‘ He reckons all he has to do is to keep on producing good plain food and the customers 'll keep coming , but the fact is that it 's dull . ’ |
| 17 | But the fact is that Courtney 's dealing the hand of an unborn baby as well as her own . |
| 18 | These experiences , which Rigoberta relates in her autobiography , I Rigoberta Menchu , make grim and compulsive reading , but the fact is that her story is by no means unusual . |
| 19 | But the fact is that all the other instances of union are just as swiftly broken up , disunited . |
| 20 | But the fact is that Lazar Berman 's Liszt Transcendental Studies , one of the great piano recordings ( EMI , 2/76 ) still awaiting transfer to CD , together with the rarity of his appearances outside Russia in the 1960s and early 1970s , made the label almost unavoidable . |
| 21 | But the fact is that , like most people , he reserved a special kind of behaviour or language for whomever he was with ; in his correspondence with Ezra Pound in the same period , far example , he became an egregious Yankee addressing another . |
| 22 | Other fetishes — such as rubber , sweaty socks or amputations may seem outlandish but the fact is that a fetish may be practically anything . |
| 23 | But the fact is that gradually from the heyday of the detective story in the 1920s , " 30s and " 40s new tendencies crept in . |
| 24 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 25 | But the fact is that the government is looking for a huge expansion in student numbers nationally and we at Birmingham are keen to play our part , not least because we know that there are many more people who can benefit from a university education ( as you have done ) than are able to at present . |
| 26 | Personally , I do not support that concept , but the fact is that it has given rise to a large number of settlements on the west bank and even in the Gaza strip . |
| 27 | The motor car is now the big demon of the left because , supposedly , it pollutes our atmosphere , but the fact is that it is the most treasured possession of many people — including working people — because it allows them to get around independently . |
| 28 | At the beginning of his speech the hon. Member for Dagenham said that no one disagrees with the Government 's wish to introduce simplicity into local government , but the fact is that the Labour party profoundly disagrees with that wish . |
| 29 | But the fact is that spent most of his life , and most of his writings on an enormous work , even longer than the Golden Bough , er called the Welker Psychologie or Folk Psychology , and this enormous work , it 's in twenty three volumes or something , er , of , of , the Welker Psychologie is just like James Frazer 's writing and indeed Totem and Taboo . |
| 30 | This is an , a product of evolution , admittedly Freud uses a Lamarckian scenario to explain how it got there , but the fact is that Freud insisted on it . |