Example sentences of "it was true " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true that the water might rise and swamp you . |
| 2 | It was true he was footloose , and unmarried . |
| 3 | It was true self-education , and accounts for the enjoyment he still shares in the works of poets now regarded as passé . |
| 4 | If we 'd seen loads and loads of Soviet bodies , we would have felt it was true . |
| 5 | I came back and saw it was true : there is nothing in the shops . ’ |
| 6 | Moore refused to confirm or deny whether it was true . |
| 7 | It was true that there were now ‘ whole chanceries ’ of paperwork in the offices of village-Soviet secretaries , but most of the secretaries had worked for the volost' in the Tsarist regime and were somewhat suspect . |
| 8 | It was true that there were other Anglo-Catholics in Cambridge : Ramsey 's helpers Milner-White and Edward Wynn , for example . |
| 9 | And it was true — progressivism was followed closely in his heart by the decadent enigmas of forgetfulness and oblivion' ( Pasolini , 263 , 265 ) . |
| 10 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 11 | Phoebe , like her mother , did not believe a word of it , but part of her knew it was true . |
| 12 | It was true , she knew , that dragons were huge and fierce and wild and mysterious ; but it was also true , as she also knew , that not everything that was huge and fierce and wild and mysterious was necessarily evil , necessarily wanted to kill you . |
| 13 | But although she said it she could not be certain that it was true . |
| 14 | This curse resulted in guilt , because in a way you see it was true . |
| 15 | The Barley Mow tends to be an instant poll of opinion on matters motor racing , and before the Spanish Grand Prix when a Mansell comeback was mooted , one regular announced that he hoped it was true because Nigel was the most exciting British driver anyone could remember . |
| 16 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 17 | And the scene of the burning of the books , seen on film by her many times , was as vivid as an actual memory : Hitler 's jack-booted thugs in their brown shirts , swastikas on their arms , heaving the books from the Library and heaping the heritage of the world on to a pyre , dancing and gloating as the flames consumed book after book , volume after volume : Heine , Schiller , Brecht , Thomas Mann , Einstein , Freud , Marx : history , poetry , novels , science , the works of philosophers , psychologists — men and women who had dedicated their lives for the betterment of the brutes who burned their books ; brutes living in utter ignorance , leading lives as dull and limited as the beasts of the fields , inspired only by resentment , vile prejudice , and blind hatred of what they could not understand , and , it was true , victims themselves of poverty and ignorance seeking victims in their turn — and finding them . |
| 18 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 19 | It was true that the turnout was a meagre 37 per cent of the electorate , by far the lowest in Europe , where the average was 59 per cent , but it was still two million people . |
| 20 | But equally it was true that the circumstances of my review were very different from those of Lord Beveridge . |
| 21 | It was true what she said ; the house was n't dead . |
| 22 | It was true ; his headache had come back again but it was n't that bad , not as bad as he got them in term-time . |
| 23 | It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention . |
| 24 | She was always in a terrible temper , it was true , but she never said anything directly about them . |
| 25 | She was too old for him , it was true , but at least she was there . |
| 26 | Because she saw that it Was true . |
| 27 | And , out of the corner of her eye , Jinny saw that it was true . |
| 28 | I wanted to see if it was true . |
| 29 | And it was true that Simon had the self-possession of somebody much older : he seemed to have everything worked out . |
| 30 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |