Example sentences of "was in fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sothebys were unfortunate enough to misattribute a French eighteenth-century picture , which was in fact by Fragonard . |
| 2 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 3 | It was in fact rather a nice day and my spirits were starting to rise . |
| 4 | It was in fact a butterfly , tawny orange like a tiger with a purple and black lace frill to its wings . |
| 5 | Scott was in fact a poet of considerable skill himself a founding father , no less , of Canada 's emerging poetry movement , and the doyen of poetry in Montreal , which has produced so many excellent poets . |
| 6 | So it produces an odd sensation to learn , again from Anna , that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky 's . |
| 7 | However , he has never stated that this was in fact the case . |
| 8 | This is certainly not the language that one uses of a resident sage or recognized ‘ master ’ ; and it seems that in Paris at that time there was in fact no one who esteemed Pound in either of those ways . |
| 9 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 10 | The friend was a newspaper reporter and the money was in fact paid to her by The Mail on Sunday , Gavin Lightman QC , representing the magazine in an appeal for a new trial , said . |
| 11 | During the early part of the day in Prague , East Germans waited quietly , apparently believing that the crowd outside the embassy was in fact a queue . |
| 12 | Berger sets this story up by saying : ‘ Sometimes to refute a single sentence it is necessary to tell a life story ’ : one villager mistakenly claims that ‘ Boris died like one of his own sheep , neglected and starving ’ , whereas the admittedly ill-tended flock was in fact killed by lightning . |
| 13 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 14 | CORRECTION The statement attributed to Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , saying that Chancellor of the Exchequer should have let the pound drop lower , was in fact made by Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail . |
| 15 | A statement on page two of The Independent yesterday , attributed to Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , saying that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should have let the pound drop lower , was in fact made by Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail . |
| 16 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 17 | Confused data on peasant landownership and family size made it virtually impossible to make accurate assessments , so that for many provinces only half of the taxable land per head was in fact recorded in the tax lists . |
| 18 | The incidence of the Famine was in fact worse for those peasants who wandered into the nearby Volga cities or travelled much further afield . |
| 19 | An influential report by Professor Jurg Niehans in February 1981 argued that monetary policy was in fact excessively tight because the high interest rates were attracting foreign money to London and maintaining a high pound . |
| 20 | The MTFS in 1980 planned for a reduction in public spending of 5 per cent over the next four years ; there was in fact an 8 per cent growth in real terms . |
| 21 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 22 | But there was in fact no need for public works , since cheap money would have the same effect by increasing private investment . |
| 23 | Now , dazzled , she realised that Amy was in fact praising Phoebe 's commitments , on her side rather than on the side of the pompous arrogant ex-professor . |
| 24 | It was in fact my experience of working with the banks and institutions for the recapitalisation and reconstruction of John Brown which led me to think that the City is much maligned over its attitudes to industry and the accusation of short-termism is not justified . |
| 25 | Although ostensibly a welfare organisation Gema was in fact a political party within KANU with Kiambu as its nerve centre , but with political retainers throughout the Republic among every tribe . |
| 26 | Although the transition from Kenyatta to Moi was nominally smooth , it was in fact the culmination of a battle for power which had lasted for 12 years . |
| 27 | In this way , because the despot has taken onto himself the attributes of the community , work — which was in fact done for him — appeared as work by him , and he appeared as the creator of wealth for the community . |
| 28 | The problem raised by this theoretical paradox was of significance not only for these particular instances , however important they were in themselves ; it was in fact a challenge to the whole theoretical edifice which Marx and Engels were constructing . |
| 29 | She was in fact not only a housewife but a homeworker , sewing blouses at 35p a piece . |
| 30 | The workforce was in fact exceptionally fragmented . |