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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Nurse Ella was above all things an extraordinarily decided character, aggressively so in immaterial issues, but good for Gwynneth by that very fact.
From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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
And as it is the leaf of life, so is it by that very fact the leaf of death; for death is only the water of life.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various