Example sentences of "[prep] fact [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were reasonable , quite re , er as a matter of fact we could afford to go on ho my father could afford to take us on a holiday every year . |
| 2 | His people kept him monstrously short — ’ I ca n't wait till they discover the debts I 've made ; though as a matter of fact I can wait , it would be wiser too . ’ |
| 3 | Attlee commented at the 1943 party conference , ‘ As a matter of fact you can see the votes at byelections going up and down in accordance with the progress of our armies in Africa ’ . |
| 4 | It claimed patients would have more choice over which hospital they went to , but in fact they would have less because they would have to go to the hospital with which their district health authority had placed a contract , he said . |
| 5 | Hereford ’ s MP says the city 's traffic problems wo n't go away … in fact they 'll get worse . |
| 6 | In fact they may bear an added burden of guilt . |
| 7 | In fact they may recommend they have people see him . |
| 8 | The RSPCA says that cases like these often bring just token fines from magistrates , when in fact they could impose fines of up to £2,000 and or 6 months imprisonment . |
| 9 | Yet I think that in fact they can make life easier for mother and baby . |
| 10 | It can be confusing when you 're first trying to identify this plant because some books insist that the flowers have five petals , whereas in fact they can have four . |
| 11 | But Milton Keynes council insists the plant wo n't require a subsidy from council tax payers , in fact they can help make it a success . |
| 12 | They could n't have been so very far behind them — in fact they should have passed them unless — unless Silas had decided to turn along the road that would take them to the bush walk . |
| 13 | If we wanted now to bring our congregations together on Sunday morning it would be completely impossible in the original building ; in fact we would fill it twice over . |
| 14 | There 's the call it 's coming in I knew it would work in fact we 'll talk straight away now just come straight through to me O nine O four six four one six four one and there 's another one there so just pick up the phone and hear as we sit and talk and chew the fat and stuff like that hello ? |
| 15 | In fact we 'll move on quickly now to have a look at , we 've looked at why it 's so important . |
| 16 | And in fact we 'll come back to look at this and Bob will also be looking at er with you environmental analysis as well . |
| 17 | He said in fact we 'll come down and he said , cos the er it 's cracked round the outside . |
| 18 | In fact we 'll come back that a bit later this afternoon . |
| 19 | In fact we 'll have to . |
| 20 | In fact we may take it from the wording of Section 2 of the Definition Order that , during the conference questions were asked about the liability of individuals to repatriation , or Section 2 might not have been included at all . |
| 21 | But she admits there was room for rationalization in other areas ; ‘ at first clothes were never costed properly ; in fact we may have been underpricing ’ , she explained , ‘ but for Laura the most important thing was that everyone was working happily together ’ . |
| 22 | In fact we can go from C to any of the above keys without even modulating first , as long as the return is well made . |
| 23 | because their programmes can be planned , and because in fact we can check them if we desire to ( Bevan , cited in Donnison and Ungerson , 1982 , p. 142 ) |
| 24 | In fact we can tie up this lending for house purchase with the personal sector 's purchase of ‘ real ’ capital goods in column 8/line 3 . |
| 25 | In fact we can say that we never need to have our own feelings if we can be sure that our nearest and dearest will express them for us . |
| 26 | But in fact we can see in process in the nineteenth century a quite clear creation of a series of beliefs about male sexuality , beliefs which were inextricably linked to concepts of male self-expression and power . |
| 27 | I told them that at one we 'd be going away on another job cos we 'd got another job booked in , but in fact I reorganized everything so that in fact we could do it for them . |
| 28 | erm Now , possibly I could go on as to whether in fact we could do anything about preserving the tropical forest in this country . |
| 29 | yes , the schools group , yes , I mean , that , that could operate more , in fact we could have , instead of having just talking about the , about the India one , er instead of having one person at it , it could be a group of , of three perhaps , er . |
| 30 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |