Example sentences of "it [is] true that [det] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's true that more people are hanging on to their cars and strangel ; y not paying for their servicing . |
| 2 | It is true that many people cling to office , or are permitted to do so , and it is often that barnacle-like permanence which gives committees and boards a sense of dull sameness and an unwillingness to reform . |
| 3 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 4 | It is true that many people who are hourly-paid avoid work on a Saturday morning because they feel it costs them money — the total tax for the week exceeding the Saturday pay . |
| 5 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |