Example sentences of "[prep] fact [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact their total experience of Spanish had been a two-and-a-half-month deep immersion course , which they had both undergone only three months before my visit . |
| 2 | In fact their own interests — in terms of improving both their domestic position and their leverage with Moscow — coincided with Castro 's in pushing for a fully socialist revolution . |
| 3 | If the three volumes had a thematic heart ( in fact their whole method defies centralisation ) one might like to see it in the dialogue of Legolas and Gimli , walking through Minas Tirith at III , 149 , and looking at the masonry . |
| 4 | In fact her only fault was her unrelenting interest in him , and like before he was helpless , devoid of the steely self-denial needed to walk away from her . |
| 5 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |
| 6 | In fact what young children demand of us is not that we dilute the work , but that we make it more exciting , more tightly focused . |
| 7 | Of parish-pump politics in his old suburban nesting place , Sevenoaks : ‘ While everyone would pretend that a solution was what was wanted when there was a problem , in fact what most people wanted was trouble … |
| 8 | In fact its main function seems to be based on intemperance . |
| 9 | I taught at the London School of Economics , I was head of the department at the University of Essex in which you were an undergraduate , and was in fact your personal tutor . |
| 10 | The tundra flowers must be very exciting & in fact your whole trip sounds wonderful . |
| 11 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 12 | In fact my honourable friend , the parliamentary under secretary of state for the department of trade and industry who 's responsible for deregulation is also the sponsoring minister for one of these orders , namely the one on the insurance companies , and secondly our intention is that the cost here should be negligible , or nil er in that they do n't go beyond er what is already required or or possible by way of a right to report , here we 're imposing a duty to report . |
| 13 | In fact my real belief is that in the troubles ahead of us connected with labour we are moving very fast in the direction of revolution ; and though you will consider my hope a baseless one I still entertain it — that it is by Tariff Reform that we might , so to speak , get the train at least shifted on to other lines . |
| 14 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 15 | In fact my own club stand-offs . |
| 16 | In fact my own club stand-off , Jonathan Newton , keeps my on my toes because he moves around a lot , in fact all over the place , and I just have to find him wherever he is ! |
| 17 | It 's meaningful and you may not , as I say , come out with any single and simple answer , in fact my own view really is that there 's large area over which it does n't matter very much . |
| 18 | I could not like him , in fact my whole body trembled with disgust when he touched me , but I had to protect him . |
| 19 | In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours . |
| 20 | In fact our subjective judgement is probably wrong by an even greater margin . |
| 21 | And in fact our famous nest at Loch Garton , the young there actually er , both unfortunately died ; one killed by a fox , and the other was too weak really from lack of food to survive properly . |
| 22 | Well we 're the study seminars can take place either at Sussex or overseas , and in fact our present policy is to try and increase the number that actually take place in the Third World , because we feel that that has a number of advantages . |
| 23 | In fact our whole family is divided on this one . |
| 24 | He is little known as a teacher , or as a local preacher , but in fact his first choice of occupation upon leaving school , in Holland , was — to use his own words — ‘ School-mastering and the Church ’ , which occupations he thought were the only professions worthy of consideration . |
| 25 | And you could say that Boy 's life in The Bar and in fact his mere presence there began somehow to be for us our revenge on that poor boy in that terrible , bitter , unhappy scene in that famous film . |
| 26 | In fact his persistent signalling that he was absorbed in his own ‘ playing ’ was one of the factors holding the rest of the class back . |
| 27 | That annoyed her — in fact his whole attitude annoyed her . |