Example sentences of "[not/n't] in fact [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Continuing down the and P and L account the erm tax charge , you 've seen a note in the erm preliminary results present erm handout is not in fact up as a percentage if you look at the operating er if you look at it in operating terms , there was a tax credit in in extraordinaries last year this therefore had reduced the nineteen ninety one tax charge comparatively , strip it out and tax chargee share was around twenty nine percent . |
| 2 | Now they have begun to wonder whether many kinds of referring expressions are not in fact covertly indexical in at least some usages . |
| 3 | This particular demand of political morality is not in fact well described in the catch phrase that we must treat like cases alike . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although many people have been known to claim that they have a poor visual imagination , this is not in fact so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Montagu 's notion of ‘ self-government ’ was not in fact as radical as it might appear . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 17 | Gibson ( 1969 ) expands on these notions at some length but is not in fact very forthcoming about the mechanisms involved . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |