Example sentences of "it is true " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that some local authorities will not say whether you are eligible or not until a place has been put on offer to you , but it 's still very much worth your while to find out all you can from your local education authority . |
| 2 | It is true that the constitution was explicit in recognizing important personal rights in Article 40 : equality before the law , the non-recognition of nobility privileges , defence of person and property , liberty , no detention without trial , freedom of speech and assembly . |
| 3 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 4 | However , it is true that government policies ( or lack of policies in some areas ) have contributed significantly to our problems and some of the changes that are now in the pipeline will almost certainly make matters worse . |
| 5 | It is true that we can not observe or measure directly mental processes taking place in the brain in the way that we can measure , say , blood flow via a brain scanner . |
| 6 | Many companies manufacture expansion cards featuring DSP chips ( for example Burr Brown , SMIS and Loughborough Sound Images ) and it is true to say that every major DSP chip is available on an expansion card . |
| 7 | It is true that deconstructive approaches have emerged in American law schools as well as in literature departments . |
| 8 | It is true that in such discussions the judgemental element does not exist in isolation , since it is interwoven with description , technical assessment of moves in play , and so forth , in ways suggested in Wittgenstein 's lectures on aesthetics . |
| 9 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |
| 10 | It is true that Arnold Bennett , for one , refused to conform to that stereotype ; and doubtless one could find other exceptions . |
| 11 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 12 | It is true to this day in England that , if one has learning , one must wear it so lightly that it is unnoticeable . |
| 13 | ( Lawrence , it is true , envisaged the England he was relinquishing very largely in the image of Garsington Manor ; but then , Lawrence 's origins are so impeccably proletarian that the aberration can be overlooked ! ) |
| 14 | And it is true that whereas on the whole Pound managed his amorous career with more decorum than Shelley , still the pattern was , so far as we can discern , not very different . |
| 15 | It is true his poems seem the products of a constricted emotional experience and that he appears to have drawn rather heavily on books for the heat he could not derive from life . |
| 16 | And it is true that Williams was aware of creative work in American photography and painting , as Pound in his self-exile could not be . |
| 17 | It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems . |
| 18 | There was , it is true , still a funny , tubby chap in a bow-tie — in 1983 , Frank and Selina had Russell Grant filling this position of studio poodle — but , where Grant was an astrologer , Paul Callan reviews the newspapers . |
| 19 | It is true that no figures are mentioned in such summings-up , but they can certainly point towards the minimal or astronomical . |
| 20 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 21 | In the former , the emotional trefoil — disdain , envy , indignation — might have been more decisively distinguished , though , it is true , the melodies themselves were not so clearly differentiated . |
| 22 | It is true that this outstanding product of Polish football might have chosen to celebrate his freedom in Italy or West Germany , but instead he left Legia Warsaw for Celtic . |
| 23 | It is not the image which people like you want to know about , but it is true . |
| 24 | It is true that productivity in manufacturing ( though not in the economy as a whole ) grew rapidly , though no faster than in the six-year periods ending 1969 or 1973 . |
| 25 | For most listeners today , it is true , concerts are attended , records purchased , orchestras identified by the name of the conductor . |
| 26 | It is true that such equipment has a limited intelligence application , but the knowledge that Joe Bloggs uses McDonald 's twice a week is indeed of little value . |
| 27 | If the Saatchi Collection were to be dispersed , it is true to say that a whole era of international art would be effectively lost to the nation . |
| 28 | If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better . |
| 29 | It is true that high-level Bolshevik theorists in Moscow and Petrograd tended to select , filter , and interpret evidence from the localities in the light of their prevailing general beliefs , so that their conclusions had little foundation in hard evidence . |
| 30 | It is true that the Smolensk archives dropped uncensored into German hands in the Second World War , and that Yakovlev is remarkably self-critical of his own party ; but only Makarenko stands outside the Bolshevik view of things . |