Example sentences of "[adv] in fact [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they have begun to wonder whether many kinds of referring expressions are not in fact covertly indexical in at least some usages . |
| 2 | This particular demand of political morality is not in fact well described in the catch phrase that we must treat like cases alike . |
| 3 | Now I would imagine that the aim is for the English retrainer of the French teacher of English , say to be fully bilingual ( however defined ) and qualified to do the job , though my guess is that this will not in fact always be possible . |
| 4 | First , those who have a political interest to pursue will not in fact always do so , for example consumers , who are numerous but widely distributed , generally have never organized themselves as effectively or as efficiently as producers , who are much fewer in number but already have a business organization able to be adapted for political purposes . |
| 5 | Although many people have been known to claim that they have a poor visual imagination , this is not in fact so . |
| 6 | Analysis of contractor 's cash flow projections and their discounting back to current prices may reveal that what appears to be the cheapest tender is not in fact so , or that it would exceed the client 's budget at certain times . |
| 7 | I 'm interested in the romantic novel , and erm in the way in which certain kinds of English fiction affect American models in this period , which continues in a way my interest in popular fiction , because the American fiction really takes as its model in the late eighteenth century , the early nineteenth century , not in fact so much the mainstream British fiction of the eighteenth century , we think of Defoe or Fielding or Richardson or Smollett , these do n't provide very suitable models for American writers during that period because they 're all models based on the assumption of a fixed kind of society . |
| 8 | The argument that in English one can theoretically address others without revealing status , on which some of Lyons ' claims for the ‘ objectivity ’ of the language rest , is not in fact readily subscribed to by linguists . |
| 9 | Because of those changes , I do not in fact any longer agree with Jenkins and Kramarae that white middle-class speakers are taken as the norm in sociolinguistics . |
| 10 | Is it not in fact much more extraordinary that our minister appears to find such a statement positively generous and reassuring and has no sense of its presumption ? |
| 11 | There is no logical distinction between the use of ministerial statements introducing subordinate legislation ( to which recourse was had in the Pickstone case [ 1989 ] A.C. 66 ) and such statements made in relation to other statutory provisions which are not in fact subsequently amended . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Montagu 's notion of ‘ self-government ’ was not in fact as radical as it might appear . |
| 14 | The Munich version was finished first and the second ‘ Venus ’ , destined for Florence , was deliberately improved on by Canova , which makes this a key point of comparison for scholars who have debated whether later versions of the marble compositions were not in fact merely copies . |
| 15 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 16 | Gibson ( 1969 ) expands on these notions at some length but is not in fact very forthcoming about the mechanisms involved . |
| 17 | Since the female workers were not in fact very much worse qualified or less experienced on average than the males , there was not much of the gap explained on these counts . |
| 18 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 19 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 20 | The fi just in fact just exactly four hundred thousand . |
| 21 | The event turned out in fact as successful as last year 's but there had not been any advantage in the February timing , . |
| 22 | The child ( 14 ) : Ishmael was by now in fact about 16 . |
| 23 | Full skirts — goodness knows how many petticoats made walking very hard , so all this almost enforced leisure upon them , and this was again part of the duty of the woman to show that she did n't need to work , she did n't in fact even have to lift a finger because the man or her servants would do all this for her . |
| 24 | If class is the English obsession , then in fact surprisingly little systematic attention has been paid to the terms in which workers and others have perceived the social order in which they lived . |
| 25 | There in fact originally were different ways suggested . |
| 26 | This is the attraction , and also the danger , of irony : the way it permits a writer to be seemingly absent from his work , yet in fact hintingly present . |
| 27 | The court 's decision to deny the preliminary injunction was based in part on the notion that thousands of copies of 32V were disseminated and freely available back in the late 1970s , when in fact only about 250 copies were circulated , and those said to have been on tight contractual terms . |