Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] true [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not so obviously true where the intervention takes the form essentially of a decision to initiate a single direct action such as closing a particular valve or starting up a stand-by pump . |
| 2 | This was so nearly true that she had the grace to feel slightly ashamed of herself . |
| 3 | This is perhaps particularly true when depreciation charges are based on current values . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the inspector 's belief that I would never be punished proved only too true when I returned to London and the inquest was held . |
| 5 | ‘ So it was not altogether true that Cuchulain did not kill messengers , ’ a monk dutifully recorded . |
| 6 | There are minorities in almost every republic — that is not wholly true but it is almost true . |
| 7 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 8 | Finally , it is not entirely true that the wave is the independent variable and the beach the dependent one , because the form of the wave , at least when it nears the coast , is to some extent dictated by the form of the beach and the immediate offshore bottom . |
| 9 | No it 's not entirely true cos we did have a budget for overtime |
| 10 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 11 | Even if real output per capita rises , it is not necessarily true that actual economic welfare will have improved . |
| 12 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 13 | To say I forcibly removed him in a headlock because he was ‘ In five short minutes , playing himself back into the job of Athletico manager ’ , is not only true but also likely to get this fanzine banned within a fifteen-mile radius of ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 14 | If we also assume that my neighbour assumed that I knew these facts about the world , and that I interpreted her words according to the co-operative principle , then we can also see why the way she actually phrased her request is not only true and relevant , but also brief and clear . |
| 15 | Well , that last statement is not exactly true as I agree with the sentiments of those who have argued that the Exile clubs should not be in the Courage Leagues , which are meant to be for English players . |
| 16 | Hence it is not always true that the natural way of classifying a set of objects is hierarchical ; nor was it immediately obvious that this is the best way of classifying living things . |
| 17 | It is not always true that combining two substances into one releases energy . |
| 18 | To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed . |
| 19 | It is not always true that either the London agencies or the " big boys " of the business are the places where you 'll learn a more professional approach . |
| 20 | It is not always true that deficiencies in service are to blame . |
| 21 | This was not strictly true but she was not going to give Matthew Preston the satisfaction of knowing that Jenny still yearned after him . |
| 22 | Lower than a thousand units er there 's no immediate affect and one 's tempted to think that erm the er er it 's , that radiation 's therefore safe below that level and that 's not strictly true because there is the possibility of a long term affect it can actually cause cancer in the long term but with very low er ra- er levels of risk cos you can see down at the levels where people actually get radiation doses er like erm members of the public or erm from the actual background of people who work in nuclear power stations , you 're talking about very low levels but the levels , those sort of levels I mean one in three hundred thousand , one in three million , that sort of thing you ca n't actually measure in real er populations because there er any effects that there are can be swamped by other ways of getting er of getting cancer . |
| 23 | This is not quite true but it is roughly so . |
| 24 | It was not quite true that this was the only connecting link . |
| 25 | In any case , it is not quite true that the subject can be perceived , so to speak , only in recollection . |
| 26 | It is not quite true that the currents of migration and urbanisation were the same . |
| 27 | Joanne sensed that this was not quite true as she was aware that there were children within her classes who had not learned what she thought she had taught them . |
| 28 | Like Weber 's ‘ ideal types ’ , definitions in the sociology of religion are not either true or false , but more or less useful . |
| 29 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 30 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |