Example sentences of "in fact [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further sophistication , though in fact historically a return to basics , is rotoscoping . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the absence is in fact only a dissimulation , for etymologically the word ‘ between ’ is a fusion of ‘ be ’ and ‘ two ’ . |
| 11 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | Moreover while electronics is seen as a growth industry , it is in fact nationally a sector of ‘ jobless growth ’ . |