Example sentences of "fact be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This document revealed that ever since her father 's death , Miss Honey had in fact been the rightful owner of a property on the edge of the village known as The Red House , which until recently had been occupied by a Miss Agatha Trunchbull . |
| 2 | Financial : Paying for the consequences of the addictive disease of the primary sufferer can be exceedingly expensive and families may even be much more willing to pay Court fines than to pay towards the costs of treatment — The disgrace and deprivation of prison are commonly felt to be consequences that are best avoided whereas they may in fact be the crucial turning point that bring the primary sufferer and the family member into full realisation of the seriousness of addictive disease and the need to seek recovery . |
| 3 | The eventual cause of the serious symptoms of persistent infections may in fact be the immune system , confused by the unusual situation and attacking its own healthy tissues in an auto-immune response . |
| 4 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |
| 5 | Ireland in fact were the top nation of the home countries with Scotland taking 8th place , England 9th and Wales 10th . |
| 6 | In the contortion of such reasoning , it is easy to lose sight of who has done what to whom and who in fact is the guilty party . |
| 7 | He seemed to live his life throughout the summer on two levels : with Gwili and in his own writing and deeper probes into Pater 's works he was moving towards the standpoint of his article ‘ The Frontiers of English Prose ’ ( in Literature , September 1899 ) , that a ‘ most noticeable fact is the apparent destruction of the boundaries between poetry and prose , and between verse and prose … . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry , but the fact is the average backbench MP does n't know anything , unlike the average civil servant who really does know about his or her particular area . |
| 9 | This mundane fact is the very crux of the social world . |
| 10 | That in fact is the Chinese National Anthem . |
| 11 | This in fact was the main tack in the bishops ' attitude to the forum . |