Example sentences of "[adv] true that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gandhi explicitly rejects this claim : ‘ I , therefore , do not take as literally true that text that Jesus is the only begotten son of God . |
| 2 | Is it not true that spending pledges such as those made by Labour politicians would mean that nothing would happen ? |
| 3 | Although it appears to be generally true that erosion is concentrated on the more exposed portions of the coast , one occasionally finds examples of marked marine erosion in extremely sheltered positions . |
| 4 | Among many other factors , it is probably true that smoking may be a contributory cause of the disease . |
| 5 | It is also true that Parliament 's opinion is ascertained primarily from the words it has used . |
| 6 | It is also true that public complaining , impossible under the old regime , has grown enormously with the advent of a free press . |
| 7 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 8 | Kings wanted to build up reserves of bullion for the very practical reason that it would enable them to recruit armies , and it was also true that gold and silver had a great power to dazzle men 's minds . |
| 9 | It is also true that section 2(8) does not provide complete protection , since information obtained in answer to questions ( such as , for example , the location of funds in a foreign bank account ) can lead to the disclosure of damaging facts which once known can be proved by other means , even if the answers themselves can not be put in evidence . |
| 10 | It manifestly is n't true that variation disappears as the generations go by . |
| 11 | It may also be equally true that disincentive effects operate for the very low and the low income-earners where any increase in earnings is counter-balanced — sometimes more than counter-balanced — by a corresponding loss of benefits . |
| 12 | It is , however , equally true that Parliament can not stop Frenchmen smoking on the streets of Paris ( or , for that matter , Englishmen smoking on the streets of London ) and that it can make it a crime for a man not to turn into a woman . |
| 13 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 14 | It is equally true that Opposition Members seem obsessed with pursuing the business community with prosecutions and they frequently question me about that across a wide range of Government policies — something which I regret , but with which I have become rather familiar . |
| 15 | Although ‘ the growing relevance of social work research to daily practice ’ may be one of the ‘ most significant of the changes to face social workers and agencies in recent years ’ ( David Jones , General Secretary , British Association of Social Workers ) it is still regrettably true that knowledge and use of research findings in policy and practice are relatively uncommon , and rarely a regular part of routine thinking and planning . |
| 16 | Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is . |
| 17 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 18 | Nigel Newton explains this figure as a reflection of the ‘ very strong final quarter which Bloomsbury had that year , and in particular the strong December ’ ; and it is indeed true that trade publishers , whose sales are usually loaded towards the last quarter , generally have high debtors at year end . |
| 19 | And Alderson B. , in the same case , says , ‘ It is undoubtedly true that payment of a portion of a liquidated demand , in the same manner as the whole liquidated demand which ought to be paid , is payment only in part , because it is not one bargain , but two : viz. , payment of part , and an agreement without consideration to give up the residue . |
| 20 | It is undoubtedly true that consumption wealth has become much more widespread as a result of general economic growth . |
| 21 | For it is sadly true that misuse of a desktop publishing system can actually reduce the impact of your material rather than enhance it . |
| 22 | ‘ So it was not altogether true that Cuchulain did not kill messengers , ’ a monk dutifully recorded . |
| 23 | Whilst it is certainly true that behaviour is no substitute for knowledge , the way you behave is the biggest single factor in making an impact on the way other people respond to you . |
| 24 | And while it might be said that his version of pochvennost comes from this same source , and while it is certainly true that pochvennost deserves a longer footnote than the Petrine reforms , a footnote is all it should be . |
| 25 | It is certainly true that employment opportunities for older men have declined sharply over the last eighty years , but it is far from clear that this has been solely due to a contraction of demand for them . |
| 26 | Such anthropomorphism would appear to be unjustified , but it is certainly true that association is most definitely a mental process , whether we are dealing with insects , crocodiles , birds , beasts or humans . |