Example sentences of "true that most " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Secondly , though it is true that most farmers we interviewed reserved special contempt for the MAFF scientists from Whitehall because they understood little about marginal hill farming , and worse did not appear to think they needed to know , local MAFF officials ( not scientists ) in the Carlisle Divisional Office were a completely different case . |
| 2 | It is true that most of the mystics rejected life and lived far from it , for the two worlds can never be mixed . |
| 3 | While it is true that most houses in the world 's seismic zones are made from earth , and most deaths in earthquakes are attributable to the collapse of earthen structures , it is equally certain that high-tech solutions will never be disseminated . |
| 4 | It is true that most jobs have clear cut educational requirements , such that employers assume workers lacking them to be ipso facto unqualified . |
| 5 | It is also true that most people would look fairly conventional , even today , when compared with de Sade . |
| 6 | When we wrote the editorial it was true that most , but not all , of the evidence of opportunism had been reported from the United States . |
| 7 | But it is still true that most members of the professions , accountancy , the law and banking , to whom people intending to start a business might turn for advice on how to constitute or finance it , will propose a company incorporated under the Companies Acts , or perhaps a partnership . |
| 8 | Some satisfaction , let it be conceded ; and it will certainly be true that most voters will find that a candidate for whom they have expressed some preference will have been elected . |
| 9 | It is certainly true that most north-eastern white-collar workers and paraprofessionals ' family origins are in the skilled working class . |
| 10 | It is true that most prisoners miss sexual contact but not just to get relief . |
| 11 | Indeed , it may be true that most of the great floodplains of the world have been formed by aggradation provoked by the Post-glacial rise in sea level and not by the erosional method outlined in the discussion of the Davisian cycle ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 12 | It is certainly true that most futures contracts deal with commodities ( e.g. aluminium , barley , cattle , citrus , cocoa , coffee , copper , corn , cotton , crude oil , gasoline , gold , heating oil , hogs , lead , lumber , nickel , oats , palladium , palm oil , plywood , pork bellies , potatoes , propane , rapeseed , rice , rubber , rye , silver , soybeans , sugar , tin , wheat , wool and zinc ) . |
| 13 | It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system . |
| 14 | Although it is still true that most dollar eurobonds are held by non-US residents , US residents now form an important group . |
| 15 | For the time being , it remains true that most studies require some form of typing activity ( key punching ) in the preparation of data for the computer . |