Example sentences of "fact [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in fact rather a nice day and my spirits were starting to rise . |
| 2 | Indeed the overall triumph of art in this case is that the novel walks out into our fact rather than ourselves entering its fiction : a very primitive and absolute form of consumer capitulation . |
| 3 | ‘ Suspicion will be laid to rest by fact rather than hearsay and rumour . ’ |
| 4 | Since the party was dominated by trade unions accepting it meant accepting an intricate network of loyalties rather than accepting socialism : Idealism was in fact rather less necessary , or sustaining , than loyalty within a trade-union dominated Labour Party . |
| 5 | The emotional help that we can offer most directly to bereaved people is to explain that such behaviour is not an indication that they have gone mad , but in fact rather the opposite . |
| 6 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 7 | It is clear from the surviving works by Pasiteles ' pupils that , though they were famed as copyists , their copies of famous works were in fact rather free adaptations . |
| 8 | We gradually got to know some of the members of our Pathfinder Squadron , and to realise that they were in fact rather special . |
| 9 | If you were looking for a physico-chemical reason for this fact rather than the , more usual , historical one you could do worse than suggest a capacity to make helical molecules . |
| 10 | Their credit ‘ defence ’ against inflation is in fact rather more like an inflationary ‘ fifth column ’ . |
| 11 | On the level of fact rather than speculation , many schools have experienced or are experiencing the stresses of amalgamations of various sorts , both whole school and for instance in the creation of sixth form consortia . |
| 12 | In fact , black holes can now be said to be really matters of science fact rather than science fiction . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact rather the contrary . ’ |
| 14 | On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one . |
| 15 | At that time the Particular Baptists were meeting in a private house and it may have been that fact rather than family disagreements on doctrinal issues which led to her being baptized at Netherfield Independent chapel on 6 August 1817 . |
| 16 | It 's a matter of fact rather than rather than rather than a matter what is shown on the one inch map . |
| 17 | Erm in fact incredibly so erm Very nice place to work actually erm so I 'll do a bit of friendly chasing . |
| 18 | So how good to say that this new Chopin disc reveals a more composed and mature Gavrilov , someone able to storm high heaven , if necessary , without loss of refinement , someone in fact acutely aware that Polish passion in Chopin was counterbalanced with Gallic finesse . |
| 19 | The realisation of this fact slowly dawned on Sun and its chip partner Texas Instruments Inc sometime in September causing them to redesign Viking 's metal masks . |
| 20 | Class antagonism is in fact rarely expressed openly in the caustic comments of such journals as the Scottish Typographical Circular . |
| 21 | Nor am I suggesting that these strategies are in fact used by professional translators in any significant way ; one has to acknowledge that , in spite of being available in theory , they are in fact rarely used in practice . |
| 22 | Doctors persisted in this view , despite increasing evidence that opiates caused addiction , a fact widely publicised as a result of the literary success of de Quincey 's study of the subject . |
| 23 | The earliest forms resembling man , the hominoids , were in fact widely distributed in Africa and Asia between 15 and 10 million years ago . |
| 24 | One person on his own could not constitute a procession , but if a person were to march on his own , having publicised the fact widely in advance , it would seem that he might be said to be organising a procession if , Pied Piper like , he were to draw a crowd of supporters and followers . |
| 25 | Nor was it too friendly , a fact duly noted by the flag-waving touch judge . |
| 26 | With this fact duly logged , Brad Doshan boarded the coach confidently but was slightly surprised at the size of the win , which was signed , sealed and delivered before half an hour had been played . |
| 27 | In all these areas , librarianship has developed a considerable body of constantly re-examined knowledge , a fact duly recognized by ( for example ) the Council for Educational Technology , which turned to it naturally and appropriately as issues developed within its purview . |
| 28 | By comparison with music , the visual arts barely touched him ( a fact presumably connected with the poor eyesight he had from birth ) , but he possessed a strong feeling for poetry , especially Romantic poetry . |
| 29 | He had made that fact clear enough . |
| 30 | ‘ It looked at practices over waste disposal , housekeeping , in the kitchen , the laundry , the offices — in fact right across the company and asked very detailed and specific questions . |