Example sentences of "it is true [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The communist party should not be banned , it is true that many members of it did support er an coup , on the other hand so many people joined the communist party for advancement and it 's not very democratic to ban a party which has had su such power and such membership . |
| 2 | It is true that many films and television programmes are about violence and murder and it does n't take long for children to copy ideas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is true that many sociologists of religion have suggested definitions of their subject matter , but there is no clear agreement and it can be argued that if we were to stick to only one definition then we would not be able to ask — let alone answer — some of the questions in which they are interested . |
| 7 | ( Nordberg 1980 : 5 ) Certainly it is true that such difficulties emerge particularly with small-scale community studies . |
| 8 | It is true that such equipment has a limited intelligence application , but the knowledge that Joe Bloggs uses McDonald 's twice a week is indeed of little value . |
| 9 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 10 | It is true that all polls showed how popular Mr Smith was with voters , and that he is the most experienced and competent man on offer . |
| 11 | It is true that all cats share many features of their behaviour , down to the tiniest detail . |
| 12 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 13 | It is true that these developments are likely to reduce the labour-capital ratios in a wide range of industries . |
| 14 | It is true that most prisoners miss sexual contact but not just to get relief . |
| 15 | While it is true that most houses in the world 's seismic zones are made from earth , and most deaths in earthquakes are attributable to the collapse of earthen structures , it is equally certain that high-tech solutions will never be disseminated . |
| 16 | Secondly , though it is true that most farmers we interviewed reserved special contempt for the MAFF scientists from Whitehall because they understood little about marginal hill farming , and worse did not appear to think they needed to know , local MAFF officials ( not scientists ) in the Carlisle Divisional Office were a completely different case . |
| 17 | It is true that most jobs have clear cut educational requirements , such that employers assume workers lacking them to be ipso facto unqualified . |
| 18 | To take the last point first , it is true that several scholars have observed that " specification " is a function of the B-line of a couplet . |
| 19 | It is true that several countries have problems with the agricultural part of the round , but those problems will have to be resolved . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | It is true that this word is mentioned in the Bible , but it was rightly applied then , for these unhappy creatures mentioned were not in a position to make themselves understood . |
| 22 | Although it is true that this philosophy was dominant only in the relatively short period from the turn of the century until World War I , it subsequently left its imprint upon the labour movement and its appeal has not entirely been extinguished . |
| 23 | I believe that one firm is at present training one male monotype operator , who is being taught by a woman , It is true that this evidence comes from the opposing side so to speak , but nowhere is a counter-assertion put forward by the union that men had applied to learn and been turned away . |
| 24 | It is true that this year we have a public sector borrowing requirement of about £10 billion or £10.5 billion , but with the strength of sterling and of previous national sector repayments , borrowing , and debt , that is something we can meet . |
| 25 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 26 | It is true that this procedure can force a minister to answer for what his department intends to do but the Commons are denied any real measure of control . |
| 27 | It is true that this formulation of treating a person as an equal is consistent with the traditional liberal conception of equality , amounting to the familiar idea of equality of opportunity , and even this restricted concept of equality appears capable of generating a competing individual right which is strong enough to defeat the welfare-tax protester 's claim to be allowed to divert some of his tax into non-welfare spending schemes . |
| 28 | It is true that this conclusion may appear anomalous in that the right conferred on a borrowing member by section 83(1) is confined to cases where the basic valuation is produced by an employee of the society . |
| 29 | It is true that this model does not purport to describe accurately the way in which the market economy actually functions . |
| 30 | It is true that some nurses who observe poor standards in ward management or patient care will resolve never to perform so badly . |