Example sentences of "it [verb] not [prep] fact " in BNC.

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1 The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be .
2 Shorts register civilian Tucano G-BULU below which would logically have meant an appearance at the SBAC show , but it did not in fact appear .
3 Such a record might appear to be an occasion for delight in consumers and pride in the industry , but it did not in fact arise from efficiency increases ( indeed physical indices of efficiency showed a decline because of inadequate investment in new plant ) .
4 Although the reform was thought to have eliminated the possibility of tax rates in excess of 100% , it did not in fact prevent the situation depicted in Table 16.7 with rates of more than 100% over quite long ranges at low levels of income .
5 As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway !
6 As water contains oxygen , it does not in fact prevent the paint from drying anyway !
7 Although it does not in fact provide a justification , we are much less inclined to say that it does not .
8 It is equally absurd , however , to claim ( as the industry does ) that advertising does not expand ( or slow the contraction of ) the market and that it does not in fact recruit new smokers .
9 This is almost to concede , if it does not in fact do so , that a board deriving its authority from two opposed sources can not constitute a corporate body such as decision-taking requires .
10 I extract significance from melodrama , a significance which it does not in fact contain ; but occasionally , from out of this matter , there escapes a thin beam of light that , seen at the right angle , can crack the shell of mortality .
11 It does not in fact follow that a total whiteout will occur at longer exposures , because of non-uniformity in the sensitivity of the optical RAM .
12 However , despite the initial expressions of fear that this practice could cause problems , it does not in fact seem to have become widespread .
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