Example sentences of "when [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the point of bathing together in the beaches when in fact we can not sit together to make the laws of our country ? |
| 2 | First , that he allowed Framework Management Ltd to go into liquidation admitting it owed £21,000 to Higgins ( who claimed he was owed £51,000 ) ; and , second , that he had caused to be issued in 1988 ‘ a press release regarding a tournament to be held in Peking stating , and telling Mr Higgins in order to induce him to take part in the tournament , that the first prize was £35,000 when in fact it was not ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me . |
| 4 | Midland Montagu , the bank 's investment-banking arm , has mismatched its books , betting on a fall in British interest rates when in fact they rose . |
| 5 | She made Frankie smile because she believed the bird could say all sorts of real words , when in fact it did nothing but whistle and chirrup and squawk . |
| 6 | For example , a horse that will not do something we may call ‘ stubborn ’ or ‘ pig-headed ’ , when in fact it does not know what we want . |
| 7 | Or another horse may be described as ‘ too intelligent for its own good ! ’ when in fact the horse is actually demonstrating an unwilling aspect of its temperament when it evades what is being asked of it . |
| 8 | Anorexia , where self-image and reality can be so at odds that a girl can look in the mirror and see someone hugely fat when in fact she is skeletal , is growing amongst teenage girls , and beginning to affect more Black and Asian girls living in Britain . |
| 9 | Organisers are frequently met with what appears to be rigid rules — ‘ We always have a five foot aisle , sir , it 's all we need ’ — when in fact the reality should be far more flexible , better suited to your particular needs and safer too . |
| 10 | I do n't think this point has been properly understood by many people who have been given the impression that the films are a kind of expensive toy , when in fact you are the first conductor in history to use film as an integral extension of your work as an interpretative artist . |
| 11 | In Britain , with our complex bid to offer system , investors often think that the standard 5 p.c. or 6 p.c. initial charge is all they must pay , when in fact the spread between a unit trust 's offer and bid prices can be much greater . |
| 12 | It is all too easy to think in terms of ‘ theist versus atheist ’ , when in fact the argument is one of ‘ theist versus theist ’ . |
| 13 | Er … forgot who this is … so let's just give him the popular name ‘ Local ’ , when in fact he probably is n't . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that the ventilator may be turned off when in fact , the patient is already dead . |
| 15 | That is how I saw them — and indeed how they were presented to me — when in fact , of course , they were just as vulnerable , just as sane and insane , just as full of gloss and blemishes as anyone else . |
| 16 | Indeed , two of the most popular reference books contain errors in their tables of regnal years , their compilers having made the grievous mistake of assuming the method is a straightforward one , when in fact it is not . |
| 17 | A young research social scientist could well go into a factory and tell the people she worked with that she was a student on a placement for , say , three months , learning about the realities of factory work , when in fact she was a graduate research worker carrying out a carefully planned study of labour-management relationships . |
| 18 | Under these conditions it is possible to reproduce the sight of going down a helter-skelter , and the audience feels it is falling , when in fact there is no movement at all . |
| 19 | It is all too easy to attribute changes in mood to drug therapy when in fact they have been the result of removing the patient from a stressful environment and providing him with support . |
| 20 | The visitor from beyond the planets would obtain the impression that the Earth is a very peaceable place , when in fact three-quarters of all satellites launched have been controlled by military planners and virtually every country 's space programme was originated by the desire of war chiefs to develop rockets that would carry high explosives or nuclear bombs . |
| 21 | Horizon made the usual mistake of talking about computers that can ‘ correct spelling errors ’ , when in fact all they can do is flag words that are not in a dictionary . |
| 22 | For the adherents of the new theory are faced with the prospect of having to abandon a theory that they feel to be right in the face of evidence which , at that stage , they are unable to reconcile with the new theory — when in fact in a decade or two they might well be able to do so . |
| 23 | Conversely , some parents may find lively , childish behaviour disruptive and label it as ‘ hyperactive ’ when in fact it is perfectly normal . |
| 24 | From a distance it is easy to believe that a child is counting when in fact he is only reciting a number sequence and touching or moving objects at random . |
| 25 | One frequent error is to assume the polls are predictive when in fact they 're snapshots of a situation at one particular moment . ’ |
| 26 | They thought he was reaching for an ornamental knife when in fact he was just picking up a pair of socks . |
| 27 | Friedman points out that in this economy , workers are suffering from money illusion : they believe that real wages are rising when in fact both money wages and prices are rising , leaving real wages unchanged . |
| 28 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 29 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 30 | For example , if I assume a man is honest when in fact he is a rogue , he may cheat me when I trust him . |