Example sentences of "but in fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | More , probably , has been written about this great hall-like chapel than any other building in the world ; but in fact no description , picture or photograph conveys the impact which it makes . |
| 2 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |
| 3 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 4 | The slope eased , and I came over what had seemed from below like a ridge , but in fact was merely the folding of ice from a long saddle that ran like a narrow valley between west and east summits . |
| 5 | At the start of this test we thought that we were reviewing an all-purpose saw , but in fact we discovered that the Bosch All Purpose saw , model PFZ 550 PE , is a lot more ‘ all purpose ’ than we thought . |
| 6 | This distinction should be preserved ( even though the Russian verb is not quite square with the English ) , since it belongs to the novel 's overall life-against-logic argument : in theory the student would kill her , but in fact he wo n't . |
| 7 | But in fact the metaphor ‘ step ’ , implying tread , implies also volition and direction . |
| 8 | Prokofiev , in the final piece of the evening , showed what to do with that kind of thing : his Overture on Hebrew themes , written in 1919 for a group pretending to raise funds for a conservatory in Jerusalem but in fact trying to feed themselves , just sets the tunes in a concise sonata form , and preserves all their humour and charm with hardly a suspicion of the composer intruding . |
| 9 | But in fact it rested on more pragmatic considerations of Anglo-French trade common to both Mrs Thatcher and President Mitterrand , along with the need to boost employment in south-east England and along the Pas de Calais . |
| 10 | One reason might be that androgyny typically envisages a unity ostensibly beyond sexual difference , but in fact inseparable from it ; androgyny especially has too often been a genderless transcendent which leaves sexual difference in place . |
| 11 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 12 | I had n't asked to do it , but in fact found it very interesting and that took me as a result into trade union negotiations and finally into becoming personnel director . |
| 13 | But in fact there appears to be little a company chairman can do other than try to ride out the fashion of the moment . |
| 14 | In an attempt to try to contain the pressure for such changes donors adopted in the 1970s a strategy of establishing semi-autonomous project units , which were nominally attached to national ministries , but in fact were more or less independent of them . |
| 15 | Indeed it is difficult to imagine such a state of affairs , but in fact Marx , especially in Formen makes it quite clear that this is not what he meant at all ; it is only under the influence of Morgan in The Origin that Engels might possible by construed to have implied something so unlikely . |
| 16 | It sounds important but in fact is an impenetrable statement . |
| 17 | Police injuries , 243 in August 1977 ( according to Merlyn Rees , Home Secretary ) , continually made headlines but in fact about three times as many pickets were injured . |
| 18 | These laws , with their impersonal jargon , may seem disconnected from reality , but in fact they are a far more destructive attack on black people than any activities of the National Front . |
| 19 | It is the story of a philologist ( said to be loosely based on Tolkien , but in fact fairly unlike him : Tolkien recognized some of his own opinions and ideas Lewisified in the character ) who , by a series of mishaps on a walking tour , comes to a house where two sinister scientists , Weston and Devine , are planning a visit to outer space . |
| 20 | But in fact his skills were deployed as a manipulator and producer . |
| 21 | But in fact , they 're as much about power over yourself and self-belief as they are about domination of others . |
| 22 | ‘ If that happens it will be trumped up as the end of the NBA , but in fact it will only be a breach if Mr Maher discounts without the permission of the publisher , ’ Mr Taylor added . |
| 23 | It looked as though Spurs had regained their self-respect a few seconds later when the England striker appeared to net a Samways cross , but in fact Tranmere 's full-back Higgins had put the ball past his goalkeeper . |
| 24 | But in fact the worse may not yet be over . |
| 25 | It claimed it would ensure that money in the health service ‘ followed the patient ’ , which Labour was not opposed to , but in fact the bill meant the patient would have to follow the money and the contracts . |
| 26 | It claimed patients would have more choice over which hospital they went to , but in fact they would have less because they would have to go to the hospital with which their district health authority had placed a contract , he said . |
| 27 | But in fact the show is rather jolly . |
| 28 | If the choice facing us were legal , clean , decently performed abortion or none at all , no doubt many of us would be hard put to it to vote for the former ; but in fact the choice is between the legal , clean sort and backstreet self-induced efforts of the Ottey 's Pills variety . |
| 29 | But in fact there are two , for , as Hobbes says , ‘ we are the matter and the artificer ’ of the state . |
| 30 | I expected to hate it , but in fact I enjoyed my lectures on English language history and became an enthusiastic advocate of exercises in parsing , syntax and dictation — the very best test of listening comprehension . |