Example sentences of "not [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable . |
| 2 | As in books on the philosophy of art , or aesthetics , many do not in fact contain any art criticism , in the sense of description , interpretation and judgement of individual works . |
| 3 | After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back . |
| 4 | Added to that was the desire to eradicate all vehicles with asbestos insulation by 1988 , a target not in fact achieved . |
| 5 | The majority cited was not in fact the Belorussian Communists , since Russians predominated : the reference was to the Belorussian ethnic majority in the republic 's population . |
| 6 | It was achieved in a mood of almost stunned boredom amongst English opinion , confident that the dismantling of the United Kingdom as it had endured since 1707 or 1536 would not in fact take place . |
| 7 | It was not in fact published during Marx 's or Engels 's lifetime . |
| 8 | He did not in fact inherit the title until 1705 , but a love of hunting he certainly did . |
| 9 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
| 10 | When 4 years later the US fleet was ordered to stop making sets on dolphins once they had exceeded the annual kill quota , catch rates of tuna were not in fact noticeably affected . |
| 11 | Remissions for crime , given as part of the justice of the feud when the victims of the crime or their kin had been satisfied , were not in fact a sign of weakness on the part of the crown , forced to acquiesce with an aristocracy resistant to justice , as the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ had suggested ; they were the crown 's part in a highly effective means of controlling crime , dispute and disorder . |
| 12 | The short answer is that we can not , and that structures of this kind do not in fact evolve . |
| 13 | Although by the terms of their appointment the Justices of the Forest were required to render an annual account at the Exchequer , they did not in fact do so . |
| 14 | It was hoped to use the Crown allotment in Exmoor Forest for this purpose , but after partition the Commissioners decided that it would not in fact be suitable , and in 1818 it was sold for £50,000 to a Mr Knight , who enclosed it . |
| 15 | CFCs are not in fact short-lived in the atmosphere , as methane is , for example . |
| 16 | Blake was not in fact English by birth nor was Blake his original name . ’ |
| 17 | An authoritarian bureaucratic approach may not in fact solve the problem but just add to those that the family already have . |
| 18 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 19 | Although unfortunate for the view that latent inhibition can be equated with conditioned inhibition , these results do not in fact constitute a death blow . |
| 20 | Gibson ( 1969 ) expands on these notions at some length but is not in fact very forthcoming about the mechanisms involved . |
| 21 | Those who say that they believe in God and yet neither love nor fear him , do not in fact believe in him but in those who have taught them that God exists . |
| 22 | It was with some surprise that Mr Popple , smoking a cigarette in the hospital reception , received the news that his wife did not in fact have an ulcer . |
| 23 | This is not the same situation as in those areas of the law where there are medical concepts which are not in fact accepted without further refinement by courts ; the notion of what constitutes therapy is such an issue , as are , for example , the concepts of insanity and paternity . |
| 24 | Only thus can there be confirmation that the patient can not in fact sustain his own vital functions . |
| 25 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 26 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 27 | Even less is known about the usefulness of books which are located and borrowed , and it is quite likely that many of the titles thought to have answered a subject enquiry are not in fact found by the reader to be very useful at all . |
| 28 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 29 | Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle . |
| 30 | As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered . |