Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [be] true [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 2 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 3 | It may also be true that ‘ ease of use ’ can influence the quality of work done and the effectiveness of a GIS as a decision support system . |
| 4 | That is , it will be true , if there is no other causal circumstance for b on hand , and no alternative for a , that If B & C , even if X , still A. To speak informally , in terms of the example , the hot coffee together with other things guaranteed dissolved sugar , but it may also be true that the dissolved sugar , together with ( different ) other things , guaranteed the hot coffee . |
| 5 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 6 | It may also be true that social and market changes may " filter down " from the higher social classes ( such as the AB 's in the UK ) who are often first to perceive the need or desirability for a particular change . |
| 7 | It may well be true that there is little evidence of a widespread parochial anti-clericalism in the early sixteenth century , if by that we mean an endemic lay hostility towards the local priesthood . |
| 8 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 9 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 10 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 11 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 12 | It may perhaps be true that 79 per cent of trees cut down are cleared by people needing to plant food or gather fuel , and that , if there were fewer people , there would be less need . |
| 13 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 14 | At the very least , it must surely be true that it is better to have NAB then no body at all ? |
| 15 | It might also be true that an arrangement in which supplementary grants were made in the light of positive evaluation would be an effective incentive for schools to maintain momentum and involve themselves fully in inservice activities . |
| 16 | I think so , but er , it also says erm it might not be true but there 's a quote in here that says erm where is it ? |
| 17 | It could not be true that nervous strain made you lose weight . |
| 18 | It could n't be true that her father 's leather business was failing , could it , and yet had n't he urged caution on several occasions lately ? |
| 19 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 20 | It ca n't be true cos |
| 21 | I hear that the Ancient Teutons get twice that but it ca n't be true because they lost . |
| 22 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 23 | This is not to say that if the situation had been different then it would still be true that if all of either had not existed , then if the other had not , the effect would not have occurred . |
| 24 | It will NOT be true if an attempt has been made to read from an empty area of a sparse random access file . |
| 25 | Some satisfaction , let it be conceded ; and it will certainly be true that most voters will find that a candidate for whom they have expressed some preference will have been elected . |
| 26 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |
| 27 | Whether they arise as Turing proposed , or by some other physico-chemical process , it will always be true that they can be altered by changes in genes . |
| 28 | Whatever the true origins of grammatical gender , it can not be true that it has nothing to do with sex . |
| 29 | In fact people will often say that it can not be true because they would undoubtedly have known if it was going to happen . |
| 30 | When a sentence expresses an attitude or a wish it can not be true or false in this sense , for wishes and attitudes can not be true or false as beliefs can . |