Example sentences of "[prep] fact [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in fact something called Mad Meg 's Cairn and nobody knows what the hell it 's doing there . |
| 2 | In fact they had unpaid bills amounting to £256,000 on which they were only able to pay 2s 9d in the pound ; their London agents , Hurst & Robinson , only managed 1s 3d on a debt of £300,000 . |
| 3 | Folivores ( leaf-eaters ) may satisfy their sodium requirement only by consuming soil or water plants , while animals like litter-feeding cockroaches in Amazonia would need to consume 30–40 times their energy requirement of litter to satisfy their phosphorus needs : in fact they eat dead animals as well . |
| 4 | The cautioning guidelines were intended to ensure consistency among police forces , but in fact they gave chief constables wide discretion . |
| 5 | In fact they have discretionary powers on all empty houses . |
| 6 | The service which is provided by those people is in fact questionable , and indeed we ourselves would be interested in how in fact they obtain that information . |
| 7 | The machines do not play good chess : in fact they play terrible chess . |
| 8 | They were n't all scientists , in fact we had little use for most of them . |
| 9 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 10 | In fact we have some documentary evidence |
| 11 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 12 | In fact it becomes two articles — one for punchcard machines still called ‘ Simply Silver ’ and one for electronics featured separately as ‘ Silver Scene ’ . |
| 13 | In fact it requires special sensors that are difficult to obtain , and quite expensive . |
| 14 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |
| 15 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 16 | The P G C is a difficult course to fill , really , for the people who are organising it , because although it 's called a one-year course , in fact it lasts eight months in practice , and there are so many aspects that have to be fitted in something has to go . |
| 17 | In fact he had few qualifications for great office . |
| 18 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 19 | In fact he admits that art seems to take over his life at times . |
| 20 | In fact he took neither course ; in his own account — in The Prelude — he gives the impression of a drifter , ‘ detached from academic cares ’ , and he tells us that he ‘ did not love … our scholastic studies ’ . |
| 21 | However , he does not as Tarrow seems to argue , ignore class contradictions within the territorially based proletarian community ; in fact he pays particular attention to the complex class structure of the depressed areas , identifying as crucial within them the role of the rural intelligentsia , the commercial intermediaries and the local clergy . |
| 22 | That in fact you exaggerate that space a little bit , you add a little bit more space to help out that line and that 's why if you have a headline you put a little extra space . |
| 23 | In the absence of special factors , the base is likely to be the place where you ordinarily work , even though in fact you spend more time away from your base than you do there . |
| 24 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 25 | You do not enter into any details respecting the Voyage , where you are resident etc. in fact I gleaned more information on these points from one of Gilbert 's Letters to a friend of his than from all 3 of yours — We are , however , delighted to find your expedition progressing so satisfactorily and anxiously hope it may continue to do so . ’ |
| 26 | I could continue considerably longer on this fascinating subject , in fact I have several pages of notes here if anybody wishes to come and ask me any questions . |
| 27 | In fact she wanted more children , she wanted more than two children |