Example sentences of "[adv] true to say [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While political organization among lesbians and gays may be taking a low profile , it is not true to say that the clocks have been turned back . |
| 2 | The Government 's response was : ’ it is not true to say that the reserves are lost forever if pits currently accessing them are closed . ’ |
| 3 | A spokeswoman for the liquidator of Continental , Cork Gully , said : ‘ It 's not true to say that the club wo n't get any money but at the moment we do n't know how much any pay-out will be . ’ |
| 4 | Allowing for exaggeration , it is nevertheless true to say that the Emperor lived up to the Idea in so far as the re-ordering of Paris was concerned . |
| 5 | It is still true to say that the law of sale of goods today is basically the common law , i.e. the law as stated over the years by judges in the process of deciding cases before them . |
| 6 | It is probably true to say that the first few solo flights are the safest that a student pilot ever makes . |
| 7 | It is probably true to say that the likely arrangements for assessment and recording of pupils ' achievement have provoked more concern among the teaching profession than almost any other area of the National Curriculum . |
| 8 | Even now it is probably true to say that the recommendations in the report guide and influence BLR&DD thinking and action on user education funding policy . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is probably true to say that the House of Commons relies upon the House of Lords to do this job , up to a point . |
| 10 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |
| 11 | It is also true to say that the minister ( man or woman ) is central in ensuring that the funeral service is a memorable event for the family by helping them to begin to understand their grief in the context of the church 's care for them . |
| 12 | On the other hand , it is also true to say that the benefits of scale may be lost ( especially for a natural monopoly ) and also that oligopolistic pricing may not always produce-a desirable outcome . |
| 13 | Even a writer such as Elizabeth Roberts , who has a very strong view of women 's sense of responsibility towards their relatives during this period , acknowledges that old people living with relatives but unable to contribute any longer to the household economy might well be ‘ neglected ’ or ‘ pushed into a corner ’ through force of circumstances : ‘ Although the duty to care for relatives was a paramount one , rarely ignored , it is also true to say that the quality of care varied from the dreadful to the superb ’ ( Roberts , 1984 , p. 179 ) . |
| 14 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |
| 15 | It is equally true to say that the advent of the impending change has caused the behaviour in just the same way as an itch causes a scratch . |
| 16 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 17 | Even at the time when Dalby was taken to represent the law , it was not quite true to say that the act had to be directed at the victim , since the doctrine of transferred malice applies . |