Example sentences of "were [prep] fact the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using her clearance codes , Reynard skipped nimbly into the data terraces he visualised as a vast graveyard , but which were in fact the accumulated records of all known people in Arcady , all employees , current and late , of Tech-Green , all public workers in the country , all suspect characters and a host of other subsections of humanity . |
| 2 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 3 | These were in fact the old single deck Subway cars rebodied . |
| 4 | The shoddy tower-blocks and monotonous housing estates into which the ex-peasants were already being herded twenty-five years ago were in fact the first stage of systematically transforming life in the country . |
| 5 | They were in fact the first of the so-called Friendly Islands to be seen by Europeans : the Dutch navigators Willem Corneliszoon Schouten and Jacob LeMaire spotted them in April 1616 . |
| 6 | The document states that Richard Walter Jenkins shall ‘ absolutely renounce and abandon the use of the surname of the parent and shall bear the surname of the adopter and shall be held out to the world and in all respects treated as if he were in fact the child of the adopter ’ . |
| 7 | It is difficult to escape the suspicion , on reading the detailed notes of this affair , that the complainants were in fact the master and matron themselves . |
| 8 | Acts of seemingly disinterested friendship , reinforced by regular social contacts , were in fact the only sound approach to building a powerful county interest . |
| 9 | Important or insignificant , customs appointments were , however , obtainable only by those who could expect a political favour , and many of the officers were in fact the nominees of a member of parliament and often the active partisans of that politician . |
| 10 | If the other Devon districts were in fact the chief suppliers of patients and users of the big hospital facilities then it would make sense for management and costs to be handed over to them . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , if men such as these were in fact the local recruiting agents , not all were equipped for the job ; Nicholas Hill of Oakham , though servant to no less a figure than the king , possessed neither arms nor armour . |
| 12 | If our " helping hands " were in fact the embrace of a leper , " what hope have we of saving ourselves ? " |
| 13 | They were in fact the blow-ups of the print taken from Paula Wilson 's thigh . |
| 14 | The Making of Europe ( 1932 ) discussed a specific case of this , showing that the ‘ dark ages ’ were in fact the most creative period in the culture of the western world . |
| 15 | Clearchus of Soli , another pupil of Aristotle , who must have read his Megasthenes , went a step further and suggested that the Jews were in fact the descendants of the philosophers of India , whom he called Kalanoi . |
| 16 | The greatest masses of material were in fact the published fictional works of Walter Machin : the yellowing typescripts of The Factory Whistle and Cotton Town , retrieved from their original publishers , and a collection of miscellaneous stories and articles from newspapers which eventually would be published in book form . |