Example sentences of "[be] [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money . |
| 2 | Erm you , you 're in fact a er everybody , er every Housing Officer erm oh what was I going to say ? |
| 3 | Mhm mhm , although I take it that we 're in fact |
| 4 | So they 're in fact they 're virtually all polyester are n't they . |
| 5 | But if you look at the H and the A's , they 're in fact , feature-wise , identical but you 're able to work out that one 's er an H and one 's an E based on the context . |
| 6 | They 're in fact five hundred and one thousand , one hundred and thirteen and if Mr is erred by one thousand one hundred and thirteen pounds I would hope he 'd forgive him , the fact is that this year 's budget for those two buildings er , is that amount . |
| 7 | I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges . |
| 8 | If I now consider an event of a moment ago , my idle contemplation of the cup on my table , and attempt to subtract from my present conception only a part of it-the subject within the event of a moment ago-and to hang on to the remainder , I am in fact left with something other than the content of the event . |
| 9 | Obviously , as erm I am in fact the local member referred to in er in the reports and erm it 's quite true that erm , it 's rare with some of these erm parking proposals that you get so much positive response from the residents but this has been very evident . |
| 10 | I am in fact a self-employed business advisor , management consultant |
| 11 | I am in fact not from retail training . |
| 12 | The one that has n't been in fact to employ somebody particularly perhaps to go out the market theatre but this particular mark in time it 's been very difficult for a theatre to actually find twenty thousand this financial year in fact we had to find seventy thousand pound cuts , that was a very difficult exercise so the answer to your question is we accept that recommendation and as soon as the finance is available we intend to employ somebody to take on that task . |
| 13 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 14 | Every bill of lading in the hands of a consignee or endorsee for valuable consideration representing goods to have been shipped on board a vessel shall be conclusive evidence of such shipment as against the master or other person signing the same , notwithstanding that such goods or some part thereof may not have been so shipped , unless such holder of the bill of lading shall have had actual notice at the time of receiving the same that the goods had not been in fact laden on board : Provided , that the master or other person … may exonerate himself … by showing that it was caused without any default on his part , and wholly by the fraud of the shipper or the holder , or some person under whom the holder claims . |
| 15 | A group of sisters whose objectives and aims and struggles I support quite fully and been in fact fighting for those aims . |
| 16 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 17 | A number of higher clergy in Ulster and many of its lay intellectuals stand a long way off from protestant — loyalist politics and are in fact politically dissociated from them . |
| 18 | In fact , the striking dissociations that one can observe in neuropsychological patients show us instead that skills which seem so simple and automatic in the course of everyday life are in fact comprised of a large number of functional sub-components , any of which may be impaired by brain injury . |
| 19 | Whether they know it or not , they are in fact endorsing Henry Newbolt against Pound ! |
| 20 | It is easy to cheat when quoting from these early cantos : either by imposing a seeming self-closure on passages that are in fact open at both ends , or ( and as well ) by presenting a lyrically appealing passage as typical of the whole . |
| 21 | as if to prove that the National Hunt supermen that brought off this latest feat are in fact human , Pipe admitted that he got it badly wrong over his assessment of In-Keeping . |
| 22 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 23 | They are in fact significant elements in the story of ‘ Situationism ’ which is the subtext of the book . |
| 24 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to us that like great ships you are in fact approaching the end of the storm . ’ |
| 26 | The deals are in fact important in the way the game is to be projected in the future in this country . |
| 27 | The deals are in fact important in the way the game is to be projected in the future in this country . |
| 28 | The Labour Party insists that self-governing trusts ( hospitals which choose to opt out of health-authority control and manage their own affairs ) are in fact opting out of the NHS altogether ; and that doctors who control their own budgets are going to turn queue-jumping at hospitals into a business practice . |
| 29 | Hallucigenia 's tentacles appear to be singletons ; if they are in fact legs , they should come in pairs . |
| 30 | It may be that they are in fact onycophorans , a group of arthropods now represented by caterpillar-like velvet worms that burrow through dead wood in Australia . |