by that very fact
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Fellow travelers are by that very fact acquaintances in the States.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Still, it was a message, and it was in writing, forbidden by that very fact, and it hadn’t yet been discovered.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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In the case of Americans coming to England the fundamental traits are all resemblances and therefore escape notice, while only the differences—which by that very fact stand proclaimed as non-essentials—attract attention.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Robinson, Harry Perry
If the unknowable reality projects into our perceptive faculty a "sensuous manifold" capable of fitting into it exactly, is it not, by that very fact, in part known?
From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur
Every person of experience knows that you cannot codify a large mass of floating customs and divergent laws without, by that very fact, introducing changes.
From Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly' by Murray, Gilbert