Example sentences of "true that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is true that verbal questions primarily engage the left hemisphere while spatial questions tap the functions of the right hemisphere , it might be predicted that responses to such questions will be optimal when the appropriate hemisphere is activated rather than if the opposite hemisphere is aroused . |
| 2 | However , it is generally true that mainstream teachers do not have access to specialist knowledge beyond very generic special needs training . |
| 3 | Not only that , it also seems to be true that certain herbs are good company for other plants , discouraging pests and diseases ; for instance , chives and garlic have some ability to prevent roses being infected with black spot , and chamomile is said to improve the health of young plants if they are weak and slow to grow . |
| 4 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 5 | While it is true that certain designs are closely associated , even synonymous , with specific localities or weaving groups , centuries of trade , migration , intermarriage and inspired plagiarism have resulted in a gradual spreading of compositional traditions . |
| 6 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 7 | Is it really true that nucleic acids are the only carriers of genetic information ? |
| 8 | It is true that other countries managed this , but the situation in Britain was different in two important ways : productivity per man hour was lower in Britain than in other industrial countries and the shift to non-industrial employment was greatest in Britain . |
| 9 | It is true that other investigators found further dimensions which they considered important ( such as emotional involvement-calm detachment ) , yet by and large the above two were confirmed by most . |
| 10 | It is true that new crops — turnips , parsnips , swedes , mangelwurzels — diversified the landscape and the food supply , especially by keeping herds alive over winter . |
| 11 | While it is true that the speculation is an essential part of science , and true that new ideas may have a hard time gaining acceptance , it does not follow that untested science belongs in court . |
| 12 | It is true that individual plantations lose these species rapidly once the thicket stage is reached , but other species move in and large areas of plantation often exhibit a variety of growth stages from clear fell to mature trees , which further increases the diversity of birds present . |
| 13 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it can also be true that previously-held prejudices can be reinforced . |
| 15 | It is true that capitalist enterprises will invest only if they expect an ‘ adequate ’ rate of return on capital . |
| 16 | A distinction may be made between full indicators , which retain the whole of their normal constituent meaning , like black — and — bird in blackbird ( it is true that female blackbirds are brown , but black — here still relates to ‘ black ’ , which is a salient characteristic of the species ) , and partial indicators , like — house in greenhouse ( a greenhouse is not a house ; but , like a house , it is a building ) . |
| 17 | Although it is certainly true that papal levies were one spur to clerical refusals of the king , the clergy conducted a vigilant campaign to defend their rights and immunities with regard to taxation . |
| 18 | It is true that deconstructive approaches have emerged in American law schools as well as in literature departments . |
| 19 | It is , however , true that Roman aristocrats were usually wary of divine origins . |
| 20 | It is true that young rabbits are great migrants and capable of journeying for miles , but they do not take to it readily . |
| 21 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 22 | It is sad but true that existing houses are often poorly located with respect to current jobs and services . |
| 23 | It is true that extensive reviews of research in the United States ( Lipton et al. , 1975 ) and in Britain ( Brody , 1976 ) found it to be generally the case that different penal measures had similarly unimpressive outcomes in terms of re-offending , but they also found examples of reformative programmes which seemed to work to some extent with certain groups of offenders ( see Palmer , 1975 ) . |
| 24 | Is it true that liberal democracies ‘ do n't go to war with one another ’ ? |
| 25 | It is true that Soviet-controlled airfields at Bagram , Kabul , Kandahar and Shindand have runways long enough for long-range strategic aircraft . |
| 26 | It is true that human beings share some things in common with other species , such as sexual reproduction , but they are distinct in some major ways , above all in their capacity for symbolic communication , as distinct from a sign system of communication used by some other species . |
| 27 | Even so , it was equally true that huge sums had been lost in the courts and he called to mind a case from the text books , when a million dollar had been forfeited because of the misplaced comma . |
| 28 | First , although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them , they may nevertheless be explanatory . |
| 29 | It is true that enlightened officials and liberal members of the intelligentsia were pressing for change . |
| 30 | It is true that ethical values are to an extent also transmitted through markets , with the effect that a company committed to profit maximisation can not afford to ignore the impact of its activities on others . |