Example sentences of "fact [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emotional help that we can offer most directly to bereaved people is to explain that such behaviour is not an indication that they have gone mad , but in fact rather the opposite . |
| 2 | ‘ In fact rather the contrary . ’ |
| 3 | The church is in fact only the north aisle of what was intended to be a mini-cathedral . |
| 4 | Birth records have been obtained for the 42 children with cancer diagnosed up to the age of 4 years throughout Cumbria during 1984–90 in order to investigate the possibility that some of these children had been born in Seascale and then moved , but in fact only the child resident in Seascale at diagnosis was also domiciled there at birth . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact exactly the opposite occurred , ’ Tribe explains . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact exactly the whip the jockeys use , but it is there to stop our horses running out or refusing . |
| 7 | One little discussed possibility is that the Star of Bethlehem was in fact simply the setting Sun , which the Magi followed westwards . |
| 8 | Rune had never pretended an emotional attachment to her — in fact quite the opposite ! |
| 9 | Much that appears as rejection of the legitimacy of the state is in fact quite the reverse . |
| 10 | They are not going to gain anything , in fact quite the reverse , it will probably mean more of them will go sooner ! |
| 11 | If it is a simple misunderstanding as to fact then the expert will usually be willing to change the report . |
| 12 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 13 | Archaeology confirms the picture : the so-called ‘ pyramid tomb ’ at Sardis is in fact certainly the monument of a Persian ; ‘ pyramidal stamp seals ’ of Persian type have been found in Asia Minor ( Iran , 1970 , pp. 19ff. ) ; at Sardis excavations have uncovered a relief depicting both Cybele and Artemis/Anahita ( G. Hanfmann and N. Ramage , Sculpture from Sardis , 1978 , no. 20 ) ; and Greco-Iranian stelai ( funerary pillars ) from the satrapal capital of Daskyleion in north-west Anatolia are sometimes carved in Aramaic , indicating the Persian nationality of the customers for whom they were executed ( Rev. Arch . , |