Example sentences of "is in fact " in BNC.

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1 It is in fact advisable to name more than one Executor in case one of them dies before you .
2 An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes .
3 The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’
4 ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh .
5 Or could it be that , by the merest possible chance , Steffi is in fact
6 The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches .
7 It is in fact a table , with hinging top , of about 36in diameter .
8 The galaxy , known as IRAS F10214+4724 , is in fact the most luminous object ever found in the universe .
9 Dressed in white tie , his delivery is conversational and informal , but , to sustain the illusion that he is making it all up as he goes along ( it is in fact directed by Peter Barkworth ) , he launches into too many rambling sidetracks .
10 Belief in its importance is in fact a consequence of the recognition that people , including priests , are fallible , so that the right to challenge their views is a necessary condition of arriving at valid opinions .
11 ALONG the north Antrim coastal path , you can admire the work of a giant , see the place where a witch turned a king 's daughters into swans and sample the local delicacy , dulce , which resembles burnt tagliatelle but is in fact dried seaweed .
12 While this might seem rash or unreal to some , it is in fact already an accepted idea , supported by such prophetic figures as John Muir , Fraser Darling and Percy Unna .
13 The subject ‘ Should we have an incomes policy ’ is in fact yours rather than mine .
14 It is in fact the privilege of dramatic poetry to be able to show us several planes of reality at once . ’
15 In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women .
16 This view was the product of the rhetorical use of anthropology masquerading as history , and is in fact wrong .
17 In a sense this ‘ freedom ’ is in fact total dependence and subordination to those who do control the means of production .
18 Though this idea was ultimately caused by economic and technical developments , and is in fact a misrepresentation of social relations , the idea is real enough to the people concerned .
19 It is in fact only rarely openly acknowledged by other anthropologists , though the blanket rejection of evolution which is to be found in the work of many seems to imply .
20 A problem with this point of view is that there is in fact no evidence of descent groups having ever existed without these two levels and it seems difficult to treat all documented cases as transitions from a stage for which there is no evidence .
21 There is in fact no doubt that specialization does lead to greater exchange , but anthropologists have become aware of the importance of a different type of material exchange , which is in no way related to technology or specialization .
22 In another there is in fact no seat as such , rather like a monk 's misericord , a chair that is not a chair ( Fig. 7 ) .
23 It is in fact Callinicos ' later claim that , rather than occupying a qualitatively distinct position , ‘ late capitalist culture represents a continuation of trends operative throughout this century ’ ( p. 53 ) .
24 The rear-wheel-drive XR4i , which preceded the XR4x4 , is now a minor classic in the making and is in fact a far superior performer to the 4x4 .
25 But she is in fact in grave theological and spiritual error .
26 He sees exuberant , and perhaps sensual , pleasure in the natural world , of the kind which he once described so lyrically in letters to Arthur Greeves ( there is in fact a letter about bathing in the rain at Parson 's Pleasure ) ; now such stuff seems to him ‘ Nazi ’ .
27 In acting terms , the production is in fact a strange mixture of precision and coarseness .
28 And for all his stubbornness he is in fact hinting at his readiness for a deal .
29 By the Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn station there is something which looks like a very large public information notice , which in one sense it is , but which is in fact a memorial .
30 Although castellated and towered at the front , the Castle is in fact a perfectly ordinary farmhouse behind the façade , and its rear elevation is plain and workmanlike .
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