Example sentences of "[prep] fact [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact rather the contrary . ’ |
| 3 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 4 | One little discussed possibility is that the Star of Bethlehem was in fact simply the setting Sun , which the Magi followed westwards . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact exactly the opposite occurred , ’ Tribe explains . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact exactly the whip the jockeys use , but it is there to stop our horses running out or refusing . |
| 7 | A further sophistication , though in fact historically a return to basics , is rotoscoping . |
| 8 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 9 | There are in fact quite a number of exceptions to this proposition , so that in England a county court summons will normally be served by an officer of the court sending it by post and some writs in admiralty may be served by the Admiralty Marshal ; in the United States federal courts , summonses in civil actions are served by a United States Marshal ; but service by the plaintiff or his agent is nonetheless seen as the common law norm . |
| 10 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 11 | Apart from that erm the scores on the doors forty six postcards were sent out which does n't sound perhaps like very many but is in fact quite a lot of work when you 're having to find people who 's who people 's MPs are for them and so on . |
| 12 | Rune had never pretended an emotional attachment to her — in fact quite the opposite ! |
| 13 | Much that appears as rejection of the legitimacy of the state is in fact quite the reverse . |
| 14 | They are not going to gain anything , in fact quite the reverse , it will probably mean more of them will go sooner ! |
| 15 | At the inaugural session on Sept. 4 Rawlings asserted , however , that the emerging " New World Order " was in fact merely a continuation of the familiar superpower monopoly , in that the 4,000 million people in the developing countries were still being crushed and undermined by the economic interests of the developed world . |
| 16 | It has been claimed by some that the apparent warming trend was in fact only a reflection of the " urban heat island effect " , because most of the records come from cities . |
| 17 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 18 | Long afterwards , in fact only a year or so before his death , at a party after the London premiere of his ballet Poème de l'Extase , John sat up until about four in the morning , in a mood of black melancholy , talking to his friend Peter Rosenwald about the misery of a homosexual life . |
| 19 | But the absence is in fact only a dissimulation , for etymologically the word ‘ between ’ is a fusion of ‘ be ’ and ‘ two ’ . |
| 20 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 21 | That month saw a new invasion alarm , as a French fleet cruised up and down the Channel under Admiral D'Orvilliers and a large French army under Marshal de Broglie was assembled at Vaussieux in Normandy , though this was in fact only a routine ‘ camp of exercise ’ . |
| 22 | The church is in fact only the north aisle of what was intended to be a mini-cathedral . |
| 23 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 24 | Moreover while electronics is seen as a growth industry , it is in fact nationally a sector of ‘ jobless growth ’ . |
| 25 | In fact virtually every aspect of the original has been either extensively modified or replaced . |
| 26 | Archaeology confirms the picture : the so-called ‘ pyramid tomb ’ at Sardis is in fact certainly the monument of a Persian ; ‘ pyramidal stamp seals ’ of Persian type have been found in Asia Minor ( Iran , 1970 , pp. 19ff. ) ; at Sardis excavations have uncovered a relief depicting both Cybele and Artemis/Anahita ( G. Hanfmann and N. Ramage , Sculpture from Sardis , 1978 , no. 20 ) ; and Greco-Iranian stelai ( funerary pillars ) from the satrapal capital of Daskyleion in north-west Anatolia are sometimes carved in Aramaic , indicating the Persian nationality of the customers for whom they were executed ( Rev. Arch . , |
| 27 | If it is a simple misunderstanding as to fact then the expert will usually be willing to change the report . |