Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [prep] fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifthly , to introduce something not so far mentioned , the objection may include the idea that if our causal thought did rest on the given conception of a causal circumstance , we should be able to do well at prediction better than in fact we do . |
| 2 | But the Secretary of State was not prepared to wait until research demonstrated , if it could , that common schools were better than a divided system ; such divisions were , in his view , matters of value rather than of fact and related to a vision of the nature of a social democracy . |
| 3 | Wordsworth 's earliest reading is remarkably similar to that of Charles Dickens ; it consisted of folk-stories and eighteenth-century novelists , works of imagination rather than of fact . |
| 4 | It is no defence that he acted reasonably if in fact the goods are not reasonably fit for their purpose . |
| 5 | There is a question as to whether public life , she 'd be treated differently erm and also whether in fact journalist by not being able to do things that other people can do if they 're not writing a newspaper . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 7 | Now whether in fact the church meeting would come to a different conclusion from us I 've no means of knowing but probably not because most of you know something about the church that you 're working with . |
| 8 | This , a particularly wide and extraordinarily far-reaching implication , obviously lurks within the interstices of the decision in Corbett Ormrod J. was no doubt acutely aware of what a decision in favour of Miss Ashley could be construed as meaning , even if in fact it were limited , it can be on the arguments advanced above , to its particular and very u usual facts . |
| 9 | If either one of us wanted to sleep with other people then that should be OK and it was a question of something we could work out and that would not necessarily break the relationship even if in fact it actually did . |
| 10 | An instructive example of this approach is to be found in German law , in which we find a general right of recovery which is subject to the principle that an administrative act is , even if in fact unlawful , treated as legally effective unless and until it is cancelled , either by the authority itself or by an administrative court . |
| 11 | Its opening is the key which must unlock the door to rapid decisions on ending 45 years of East-West confrontation , formally as well as in fact . |
| 12 | One thing at least is clear : shares are recognised in law , as well as in fact , as objects of property which are bought , sold , mortgaged and bequeathed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To keep things relatively simple , I 'm going to stick to true beliefs that we could get by observation , like beliefs about the presence or absence of honey , even though in fact we get most of them by communication : by being told things . |
| 15 | Compared with the quiet control ( Group K ) , there was an increased c-jun expression in both the ‘ behaving ’ groups M and N , but the increase was much more marked in the learning group ( M ) than in the group which is merely repeating an already learned behaviour ( N ) , even though in fact the chicks of Group N are eating the food grains even more avidly that those of Group M. |
| 16 | For example , an employer who , without any attempt at an individual medical assessment , inaccurately pre-judges epileptic applicants for positions as being unable to perform the job , will have treated those applicants as disabled , even though in fact their impairments might not limit their major life activities at all or only to the extent that others react adversely to them . |
| 17 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 18 | Because the communities are so stable in relation to a centre which is largely in their imagination , it matters little whether in fact the real centre is itself actually in turmoil . |
| 19 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |