Example sentences of "be in fact [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 2 | Some of the words listed by Hewitt are in fact just special uses of existing British English words , which are given new meaning within the youth culture : e.g. hard , soff ( soft ) , dread , star , sweet . |
| 3 | Japanese producers of cars and many other products are in fact already behaving as if Fortress Europe is a reality — that is to say they are setting up full-scale manufacturing plants in Europe . |
| 4 | These two panels are in fact yet another achievement of Federico Joni 's . |
| 5 | Nor am I suggesting that these strategies are in fact used by professional translators in any significant way ; one has to acknowledge that , in spite of being available in theory , they are in fact rarely used in practice . |
| 6 | There are in fact over 180 kms of marked walks , some of which are fairly strenuous . |
| 7 | We are in fact closer to one of the world 's largest market places — USA — than other European countries . |
| 8 | The 24 texts which comprise her first work , Tropismes ( 1939 ) , are in fact closer to prose poems than traditional narrative . |
| 9 | We will quickly consider these , before exploring in more depth the development of those policies that are in fact locally generated . |
| 10 | In terms of the land which is lost and will it be counted , er I would agree with David Allenby , in so in so far as where small sites are lost , they are in fact largely taken up in past land-take trends , but when a major site is lost , that at the moment forms part of the ninety one base of employment , and it it is something that we would n't have anticipated , therefore I think in terms of when we look at land availability figures and availability of supply erm we would have to look very carefully at land which is lost or significant land which is lost , or a significant number of jobs , it would n't necessary be added onto the structure plan requirement , but it could be deducted from the land availa land availability figures as land lost . |
| 11 | Whiskers have nothing to do with human hair and are in fact long thin needle crystals which can be grown from most substances by accident or by care . |
| 12 | The words of marriage ceremonies are in fact usually spoken in just such a low-key but deliberate manner . |
| 13 | Such statements are in fact usually false , either because the combination of a and b is not a necessary condition of p , so that even if X had not done b , p might still have occurred , or because , even if X had n't done b , some other agent would have done it instead , thereby bringing about p . |
| 14 | Such books are in fact mainly concerned with systems of cosmological belief . |
| 15 | The protection referred to is the protection afforded by registration of a Notice , etc ( see above ) ; minor interests are in fact mainly what would be described as equitable interests in unregistered conveyancing . |
| 16 | The average requirements are in fact considerably less and the details are set out below . |
| 17 | They are in fact almost one and the same and they use er one and the same justification . |
| 18 | Anti-discrimination measures are , of course , reflective of liberal values , many of which are in fact currently under attack . |
| 19 | This should not be suspected of being a new , strange phenomenon ; it is no more than an adjectival version of a syntactic process that is actually very common in more extended phrases , such as : ( 4 ) oddly familiar faces sadly indifferent spectators slightly old-fashioned courtesy Here , one property-word is qualified by another , which therefore does not apply directly to the noun ( or the entity behind it ) ; the faces are in fact definitely not odd , nor are the spectators sad , and there is no reason to suppose that the courtesy in the third case is slight . |
| 20 | A good feature of Market Hyde 's book , in comparison with other highly popular treatments of such matters , is its reiteration that certain problems which may appear to be fairly simple are in fact extremely difficult . |
| 21 | But you 've always got to remember that they are in fact extremely barbaric creatures . |
| 22 | His skill in exploiting the idea of mistaken identity ensures that there is no slackening of interest in two novels which are in fact extremely simple in structure , combining lateral movement ( on foot , on horseback and , rarely , by train ) from the city of Strelsau to the castle and hunting lodge of Zenda and back again and with dialogue through which the motives of these movements are explored and explained . |
| 23 | The wider range is erm , what might be termed more speculative investments , but there are many shares available within the wider range which are in fact extremely sound and safe investments , and the sort which we as trustees would wish to invest in . |
| 24 | Examples of pay-as-you-go include the National Health Service , the Armed Forces , the Civil Service and teachers , although it is somewhat of an anomaly that the pension schemes of Nationalised Industries , e.g. British Coal , British Rail , are in fact externally funded , when there is no clear rationale as to why they should be . |
| 25 | Can I just mention that the reason why some of the older properties in this village has steeper pitched roofs is not because they 're pantiled now , because originally they were erm , thatched , and the thatch needs a very steep pitch and particularly when there 's a erm a gable end higher than the pantiles , it 's where there was a thatched roof originally , but most of the older properties in this village are only one room wide , so you ca n't get a very big roof on , no matter how steep it is , the proposed houses here are in fact virtually sort of two rooms wide are n't they , so that means they are wide at the eves , I I would personally have thought that erm they could have been pitched a bit less . |
| 26 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 27 | The differences of standpoint and content are in fact so marked that they serve to highlight the divine inspiration of Genesis rather than undermine it . |
| 28 | It must be said , though , that in Schopenhauerian eyes the Greeks are in fact less compelling instructors than Shakespeare ; and that tragedy as a whole is not much more than one of several " quietives of the will " which it is the function of art in general to provide . |
| 29 | Investment trusts are mis-named in that they are not trusts as properly defined , but are in fact actually limited companies quoted on the stock exchange . |
| 30 | Minor buffering phases such as phlogopite and carbonates , which may play a role in low-degree partial melting of the mantle , have been invoked as an explanation for high U/Pb in areas of old continental lithosphere , but there is no obvious phase that will buffer K and Pb to produce the effect observed in Fig. 3 b , without also affecting Ba or Ti ; Ba/Ce ratios of central Atlantic OIB are in fact relatively uniform . |