Example sentences of "in fact [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There were in fact periods of awkwardness throughout their association — " What on earth can we do ? " |
| 2 | It may seem ridiculous to suggest that a suicide does not believe in death , but there is a certain amount of evidence to suggest that some forms of suicide ( usually referred to as ‘ schizoid ’ ) are in fact attempts at rebirth . |
| 3 | Blake was not in fact English by birth nor was Blake his original name . ’ |
| 4 | And er they listened very carefully to us , in fact council of Kivanagh actually brought up a sample of the dinner they issued to old people and I , I did notice as soon as they put this sample on the table the opposition the c Conservatives and they still are , their heads bowed . |
| 5 | Before acquisition they became aware that far from being the prosperous enterprise the business had appeared to be , it was in fact insolvent by reason of having incurred a number of bad debts . |
| 6 | It seems that he speaks no English although he has lived in this country for some time ; he is in fact Italian by birth . |
| 7 | In Young 's time most of the cattle in Norfolk were in fact Scottish by origin , brought from their native regions to fatten in East Anglia , but the Norfolk Red was an old local middle-horned breed not unlike the Devon in colour and horn growth , and described as ‘ as loose and ill-made as bad Suffolks ’ . |
| 8 | The inexorable logic was in fact sleight of hand . |
| 9 | These are in fact forms of protein , which are not digested by the baby 's stomach ( this would deactivate them ) but pass unchanged through the lining of the gut directly into the blood stream . |
| 10 | Which of these headings are in fact categories of discourse type ? |