Example sentences of "[prep] fact [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyeler has in fact made a distinction , broadly historical , between painter-sculptors and those artists , mainly those of Minimalist and Conceptualist tendencies , who have sought to blur the two idioms in their installations and in performance and video art . |
| 2 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 3 | In an analysis of the 1987 accounts of 470 banks the Commission had found that the three major banks had used such reserves to cover up losses , and that 46 out of 65 banks , which in fact made a loss in 1987 , had reported profits . |
| 4 | In Merkur Island Shipping Corporation v. Laughton the defendants were in fact given a copy of the charter of the trapped vessel before the application for an injunction , but the House of Lords held that they had the requisite knowledge independently of this . |
| 5 | Trivers 's theory has in fact received a convincing demonstration in Packer 's observations on the baboon Papio anubis living at Gombe in Tanzania ( see p. 76 ) as well as in numerous less-quantified examples cited in Trivers 's paper . |
| 6 | But as agents of formal caring systems , they do in fact hold a great deal of power which can be exercised as much by withholding as by giving . |
| 7 | And it was suggested by the er two officers that were present , that that could , that money that 's already there , could in fact get a third of the scheme done , the third which was the bisecting little path , the main trees across the front , and the bit of the paving that takes you over to the North Road . |
| 8 | I think I do in fact get a certain … well , yes , pleasure out of our conversations … |
| 9 | They did in fact get a horse erm and er they had a small carriage , er and er a horse made the odd er visit up the line , from time to time . |
| 10 | It is , however , the case that the man who approaches the whore as a client , on her terms that is , is usually mocked in the fabliau : see , for example , Le Prestre et Alison , described in Chapter 1 , or La vieille Truande , " The old beggarwoman " , in which an old woman manipulates an attractive young squire into either " embracing " her or carrying her across a river — an act which in fact becomes a physical embrace — to " " la grans risee " " , " the great laughter " , of the witnesses . |
| 11 | However , utterances of ( 38 ) -(40) and the like can in fact convey a great deal : ( 38 ) War is war ( 39 ) Either John will come or he wo n't ( 40 ) If he does it , he does it Note that these , by virtue of their logical forms ( respectively : x ( W(x) — W(x) ) ; p V p ; p — p ) are necessarily true ; ergo they share the same truth conditions , and the differences we feel to lie between them , as well as their communicative import , must be almost entirely due to their pragmatic implications . |
| 12 | V. P. Singh made no immediate comment on Chauthala 's reappointment , prompting speculation that he had in fact struck a " deal " with Devi Lal . |
| 13 | Even those who have entered a deeply religious life where it may appear that they are hiding themselves away from close contact with others have in fact formed a deep and spiritual relationship with their god . |
| 14 | Fans of the Good Morning programme who saw a holiday report on Amsterdam , presented by on May 5 , may be surprised to know they were in fact watching a colleague . |
| 15 | If the seller is able to sell the goods elsewhere for more than the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will in fact make a profit ( i.e. will be better off than if the buyer had fully paid the seller before going into liquidation ) . |
| 16 | In the event of dealing with leasehold property , the seller should be asked to complete an " additional property information " form , which does in fact contain a series of questions peculiar to leasehold premises such as management accounts , service charges , etc , and you should ask the seller both for evidence that the rent has been paid up to date and for evidence of current insurance cover . |
| 17 | Michael Locke pointed out that criticism sometimes levelled at the CNAA in fact constituted a critique of ‘ the lack of a polytechnic policy ’ . |
| 18 | Each of these three features is essential to the narrow sense of ‘ elite ’ , and Meisel 's schema , deceptively simple in appearance , in fact constitutes a problem for elitist theory . |
| 19 | Intended to reach the parts of the population museums do not easily reach , this show in fact attracted a derisory 9000 or so paying visitors in the two months that it was open from 16 November last , despite more coverage on TV than most exhibitions . |
| 20 | Registration of the vessel in a particular member state did not necessarily guarantee that the vessel in fact had a real economic link with the fishing community of that member state . |
| 21 | The car delivered to him had in fact done a considerable mileage . |
| 22 | No , we have in fact done a great deal to conserve our resources here , er and as I say we have treated er something like 500 patients by the end of this year , addition to what we treated in er the previous year , and that can only be as a result of good management , both nursing and medical . |
| 23 | There is now some questioning as to whether the stress on working-class adult education may in fact present a narrow version of the possibilities for social change which excludes other social movements and oppressed groups in society . |
| 24 | I have in fact finished a manuscript . |
| 25 | Well that 's right , yes , and the other thing as well , I should n't really be telling you this , , because it 's bad news for us but , if you in fact write a long , rambling press release , what you will find is that the journalist will almost , almost certainly go three-quarters of the way down it to find the real story which is hidden in there , and occasionally that real story is purposely hidden down in there , and you know you look at any council minutes , and the real story is always , inevitably hidden down there , because it 's the bit that somebody does n't want people to know about , and so journalists are naturally trained to go down the bit to find out what 's it about . |
| 26 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 27 | Lear pretends to be offering a gift , but is in fact extorting a bribe . |
| 28 | He has in fact got a job , now his father mentions it , and an astonishingly good one , too , for someone in his first year down from university . |
| 29 | Chandos , as narrator , describes the two who have agreed to remain loving friends with the luscious approval that ‘ suddenly faced with life in the midst of death , two natures so alike and so peerless should have comforted each other ’ ; they have in fact exchanged a kiss . |
| 30 | One could in fact make a nearly completely correct prediction . |