Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] true that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chairman Michael started off on a nice tripartisan note which er I think we on this side er did appreciate and it 's true that this panel er has agreed a great deal , covered a lot of ground and er I think er avoided the sort of er , er controversy etc. , etc. , was which we 're now caring now we are arranging in practical groups does mean the Labour groups has introduced a sound note er Brian started off by saying that the Conservatives er were not interested in an economic development strategy , er I must point out that and this activity derives from the local government managing act nineteen eighty nine , and by the present Government . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is true that such rewriting in unexpected registers has been used by literary writers , particularly in the twentieth century ( James Joyce 's novel Ulysses is a famous example of this ) ; but such experimentation is not a convention of essay-writing in literary studies . |
| 4 | Although it is true that European video runs at 25 , US video at 30 and movies worldwide at 24 frames per second , these frame rates are not essential to flicker-free motion . |
| 5 | It is true that additional therapy may be necessary to achieve this end , but that therapy alone , without the preliminary understanding afforded by experiences during regression , would be an uphill task and might never work at all . |
| 6 | Although he was ready to accept the shortcomings of the Soviet state in its current phase of historical development — " it is true that Soviet society is harsh and that many of its citizens are not philanthropists " — the harshness of Soviet society , however , can in no sense invalidate in Nizan 's eyes the justice of its struggle against the remaining vestiges of the capitalist mentality in the consciousness of the Soviet people . |
| 7 | While it is true that working class politics is highly individualistic and subject to the so-called free rider problem , there are many fewer problems for capital . |
| 8 | It is true that Freudian theory questions any notion of the original unity of the self . |
| 9 | It is true that one brachiopod — Lingula — is one of the most famous ‘ living fossils ’ . |
| 10 | It is true that personal ownership of some kinds of wealth is declining — but our focus is on assets under the control of individuals so that we can understand the effects of wealth on class position . |
| 11 | It is true that medical advice may be little more than an educated guess that proves wrong and that close supervision in a therapeutic trial may benefit the patient . |
| 12 | It is true that contractual accountability may be viewed as an alternative to political accountability , but much of what the voluntary sector does is not capable of precise measurement for inclusion in a contract . |
| 13 | It is true that electronic document management is here . |
| 14 | It is true that English Heritage has carried out frequent monitoring . |
| 15 | It is true that British Aerospace has a good total record — especially if one includes the OTS , ECS and Maritime satellites . |
| 16 | It is true that this word is mentioned in the Bible , but it was rightly applied then , for these unhappy creatures mentioned were not in a position to make themselves understood . |
| 17 | Although it is true that this philosophy was dominant only in the relatively short period from the turn of the century until World War I , it subsequently left its imprint upon the labour movement and its appeal has not entirely been extinguished . |
| 18 | I believe that one firm is at present training one male monotype operator , who is being taught by a woman , It is true that this evidence comes from the opposing side so to speak , but nowhere is a counter-assertion put forward by the union that men had applied to learn and been turned away . |
| 19 | It is true that this year we have a public sector borrowing requirement of about £10 billion or £10.5 billion , but with the strength of sterling and of previous national sector repayments , borrowing , and debt , that is something we can meet . |
| 20 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 21 | It is true that this procedure can force a minister to answer for what his department intends to do but the Commons are denied any real measure of control . |
| 22 | It is true that this formulation of treating a person as an equal is consistent with the traditional liberal conception of equality , amounting to the familiar idea of equality of opportunity , and even this restricted concept of equality appears capable of generating a competing individual right which is strong enough to defeat the welfare-tax protester 's claim to be allowed to divert some of his tax into non-welfare spending schemes . |
| 23 | It is true that this conclusion may appear anomalous in that the right conferred on a borrowing member by section 83(1) is confined to cases where the basic valuation is produced by an employee of the society . |
| 24 | It is true that this model does not purport to describe accurately the way in which the market economy actually functions . |
| 25 | It is true that some attention is normally indicated and this may involve a certain amount of expense , though not necessarily a king 's ransom . |
| 26 | While it is true that different assessment procedures usually focus on one or other of these different aspects of language , this is a reflection on the recent history of psycholinguistic research and ought not be taken to imply that assessment is best carried out by focusing on discrete areas . |
| 27 | It is true that Franciscan spirituality put new stress on the necessity for integrating action and contemplation . |