Example sentences of "in fact [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this in fact oddly enough , did cause a few upsets . |
| 2 | Erm in fact incredibly so erm Very nice place to work actually erm so I 'll do a bit of friendly chasing . |
| 3 | Although it is not beyond the ingenuity of the vigneron to protect his vineyards from such isolated hazards , in fact little can be done which would be economically viable . |
| 4 | This was predictable , not only because of natural human frailty , but also because , despite Allen 's initial hopes , there was in fact little political purpose to be served by adopting the absolutist position . |
| 5 | While not intended as a dogmatic definition , it was in fact little less . |
| 6 | If one looks behind what is being said by both sides , there is in fact little that divides them . |
| 7 | but he he would never stay except , you know , it always had to be in respectable kind of a barn or something he would live in , least And in fact instead of that he would ra if it was good days he would rather lie at the dyke side . |
| 8 | Interestingly , in evidence to the Select Committee in 1968 the Senior Chief Inspector ( Scotland ) was asked ‘ Do you in fact nowadays have any formal inspections in the old sense of written reports ? ’ |
| 9 | Treaty , even if the power in question is in fact freely applied : see , in particular Openbaar Ministerie of the Netherlands v. van Tiggele ( Case 82/77 ) [ 1978 ] E.C.R. 25 and Criminal proceedings against Anton Adriaan Fietje ( Case 27/80 ) [ 1980 ] E.C.R. 3839 . |
| 10 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 11 | It was generally agreed that in any case it would be very difficult to achieve because very few areas were in fact exclusively inhabited by any one of the three communities . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These factors appear contradictory , but in fact both individualist and mechanised life-styles serve capitalism by increasing demand and facilitating the circulation of commodities produced . |
| 14 | In fact both the US State Department and the Joint Chiefs were already beginning to rank this region immediately after Europe in their list of strategic priorities . |
| 15 | In fact both Eisenhower and Dulles privately accepted the absurdity of a European war if all that was truly at stake was the status of East Germany and Berlin . |
| 16 | I was judging photographs in fact both |
| 17 | It was in fact rather a nice day and my spirits were starting to rise . |
| 18 | Since the party was dominated by trade unions accepting it meant accepting an intricate network of loyalties rather than accepting socialism : Idealism was in fact rather less necessary , or sustaining , than loyalty within a trade-union dominated Labour Party . |
| 19 | The emotional help that we can offer most directly to bereaved people is to explain that such behaviour is not an indication that they have gone mad , but in fact rather the opposite . |
| 20 | It is clear from the surviving works by Pasiteles ' pupils that , though they were famed as copyists , their copies of famous works were in fact rather free adaptations . |
| 21 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 22 | Their credit ‘ defence ’ against inflation is in fact rather more like an inflationary ‘ fifth column ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact rather the contrary . ’ |
| 24 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 25 | This belief has only been strengthened in the post-war period when indeed the division of Europe and the division of Germany were in fact physically the same thing . |
| 26 | The programme Beveridge put forward in his book was in fact fundamentally radical . |
| 27 | This week , in fact tomorrow , I 'm going to splash out an unbelievable amount of money and buy a transcription machine . |
| 28 | The father of the little boy concerned , who is now approaching six and a half years of age , seeks an order of the court in this country that the defendant ( the child 's mother ) shall return the child to the jurisdiction of the court in Ontario , which is in fact presently seized of custody applications relating to the child in the context of divorce proceedings between the father and the mother . |
| 29 | She was kept on bed-rest , and an angiogram was taken which showed that there was blood seeping into the brain from aneurysms which Rose had in fact probably been born with , but which had not caused any problems previously . |
| 30 | It must be of immense value today , in fact probably some of the work is too highly priced to be allowed out into the schools for which it was bought . |