Example sentences of "it is true [that] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that things have happened above the ground at the Tate , but the Government 's responsibilities for its fabric — the wiring , the structure , the roofs and so on — have been appallingly neglected . |
| 2 | If it is true that Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role , Germany is a country with an identity crisis par excellence . |
| 3 | It is true that Moscow has failed to gain access to military facilities in Iraq , despite some ambiguity over the Soviet status in the port of Umm Qasr . |
| 4 | It is true that geomorphologists have tended to neglect large-scale continental problems but this arises because they have not been prepared to contribute to tectonics and geophysics , which must surely be a prerequisite for an effective and accepted research contribution at the world level . |
| 5 | The Whig ministers lost the General Election of 1698 , although it is true that William had not thrown his support wholeheartedly behind them . |
| 6 | It is true that Merson has been handicapped by an ankle complaint , which has restricted his pre-season training . |
| 7 | It is true that baroque had long been adopted as the style for state capitols in the United States , but the Beaux-Arts style in all its overblown pomposity was to reflect this new sense of greatness . |
| 8 | It is true that people had loyalties to the old counties , many of which were abolished by the Conservatives in 1974 , but people do have regional identities . |
| 9 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 10 | LAST September Paddy Ashdown dismissively described David Alton the Liberal Democrat MP for Mossley Hill thus : ‘ It is true that David has not played a large national part in the Liberal Democrats since our reform in 1988 . ’ |
| 11 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |