Example sentences of "it is true [that] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that the non-human world of living things is packed with symmetries and topological transformations of smooth forms but the simplest shapes of all — regular straight lines , rectangles , triangles , circles , ellipses — hardly ever turn up except as the result of human intervention . |
| 2 | It is true that the first of the pair begins like the piece on p.88 , with a figured Trommelbass accompaniment , but this soon gives way to a rising broken triad in semiquaver triplets which dominates from then on . |
| 3 | It is true that the other problems also occurred during the day . |
| 4 | It is true that the increasing scale of certain enterprises in post war Britain can be traced to speculative financial considerations ( primarily among those which Channon identifies as ‘ acquisitive diversifiers ’ ) , and that many such enterprises have failed to exploit economies of scale and have shown a poor record even in terms of profitability . |
| 5 | It is true that the Irish have not genuinely embraced the fitness revolution and the real impact of the fitness factor is witnessed in the unpleasant sight of what fit teams are doing to Ireland . |
| 6 | The IS curve shows combinations of the level of real income and the level of the nominal interest rate , i , for which it is true that the aggregate demand for output equals the actual quantity of output . |
| 7 | Use as high a magnification as possible , though it is true that the real complexity of the nebula can not be properly seen without a telescope . |
| 8 | If people get the impression that the education system is in a thoroughly depressed state , erm I would want to argue against that in general , but I think it is true that the short-term cutbacks have made everybody erm thoroughly anxious and miserable , anxious about their jobs , miserable about not being able to produce resources for education . |
| 9 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 10 | While it is true that the standard expected of particular directors may be increased in accordance with their individual attributes , it is clear that there is also an objective base-line standard , though admittedly a low one . |
| 11 | If you write " the second novel Dickens produced was called Oliver Twist " , then you are explicitly asserting that it is true that the second novel Dickens produced was called Oliver Twist . |
| 12 | If it is true that the Japanese have pardoned the politicians implicated in the Recruit affair , Mr Takeshita may indeed feel that the time is ripe for his return . |
| 13 | It is true that the present nature of the threat can be seen to come from the left . |
| 14 | It is true that the Anglo-Norman aristocracy spoke French among themselves and wrote to each other in that language , long after they came to regard themselves as Englishmen . |
| 15 | It is true that the two eldest sons , William 19 or 20 , and Thomas 16 or 17 , might have been working in the mine as subsidiary members of a gang and are unrecorded in accounts . |
| 16 | It is true that the former incorporated such normative policies as progressive taxation and the maintenance of high employment , and underlying both approaches was the belief in the desirability of more centralised economic policy-making than had operated before the war . |
| 17 | It is true that the corrective measures that can be taken do not usually have an immediate response , and that in many cases they appear to be quite small actions , relative to the size of the problem with which you are grappling . |
| 18 | Although it is true that the legal provisions are mostly protective minimum standards which can be improved upon via collective bargaining , the fact remains that collective bargaining itself does not have the same range as might be the case if legal provisions were fewer ( Blanpain , 1982a ) . |
| 19 | Moreover , whilst it is true that the great popularity of the environmental improvements in the centres has turned attention towards restraining traffic in other areas , it is also clear that as car ownership and use rises , there is no political consensus for banning cars in the rest of the city . |
| 20 | It is true that the great width is only to be found in the first part of the new route but that is enough . |
| 21 | It is true that the new pathway was oversubscribed in both pilot years . |
| 22 | It is true that the new type 23s , because of their greater capability and efficiency , will operate with smaller crews . |
| 23 | It is true that the capitalist system of production with its inherent conflicts between workers and management makes for inefficiency but it is not necessarily true , as they claim , that collectivism is a more powerful force for productivity than individualism . |
| 24 | Although it is true that the general law would in most cases not permit assignment by a buyer to a less creditworthy assignee ( since creditworthiness would be an important factor relating to the identity of the contracting party ) many sellers would prefer to insert a non-assignment clause and avoid the argument . |
| 25 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 26 | It is true that the greater mathematical physicist Maxwell referred to them when making use ( separately ) of the " scalar " and " vector " parts of a quaternion , but the vector calculus of Gibbs and Heaviside ( in the 1880s ) seemed to suit the physicists better . |
| 27 | Although it may be unfair to draw hard and fast conclusions based upon such divergences , it is true that the reasonable man and rational man paradigms play an important role in each discipline . |
| 28 | It is true that the market-leading software packages have perhaps displayed greater longevity , but whilst the base product apparently remains the same version numbers change rapidly with incompatibilities being introduced with each new version . |
| 29 | It is true that the early coastal attacks may have been difficult to counter because of uncertainty about where they would occur , and that interception at sea depended on the availability of reliable intelligence . |
| 30 | It is true that the National Deaf Club attracted a few members from the provinces , but by and large , its membership has been confined mostly to London and its environs . |