Example sentences of "[det] than the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect I think it was no more than the truth . |
| 2 | It was no more than the truth . |
| 3 | It was no more than the truth but showed , surely that her sister was not forgetting the fact . |
| 4 | So far Marian had spoken no more than the truth but the sort of truth children speak and understand for what it is — the letter of truth but not the spirit . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's perfect , ’ the woman had said ; and for once a shop assistant had said no more than the truth . |
| 6 | I think Cowslip 's told us no more than the truth . |
| 7 | But it was no more than the truth . |
| 8 | ‘ When I said that this was necessary to allow us to cross the Great Sea , ’ Alexei said , ‘ I spoke no more than the truth . |
| 9 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 10 | Dunbar had said no more than the truth , the archers could do it all . |
| 11 | No more than the truth . ’ |
| 12 | India supports the Kabul government , much to the annoyance of Pakistan and most western countries ; but while allowing for the mischievous nature of Mr Gandhi 's remark , they suspect that it is no more than the truth . |
| 13 | Then her innate honesty forced her to realise he was probably speaking no more than the truth , and she gave a single reluctant nod . |
| 14 | It 's difficult to escape the conclusion that a great many of those questioned spoke less than the truth in their answers . |
| 15 | There was no virtue , therefore , in telling Anthea Darnell anything less than the truth at this stage . |
| 16 | So Nicky Fairbairn , Jo Beltrami and Paddy Meehan travelled to Edinburgh , and to the court where Oscar Slater had been wrongly convicted nearly fifty years before , all of them knowing that when the charge was read and Meehan formally pleaded Not Guilty , he was speaking no less than the truth . |
| 17 | He had been speaking nothing less than the truth when he put it well down the list of those he had seen . |
| 18 | This was no more or less than the truth . |
| 19 | But as well as her being uncomfortable with lying , her eyes had been trapped by the intensity of his gaze and telling him anything less than the truth , the whole truth , had seemed impossible . |