Example sentences of "[pers pn] be true that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's true that some women are not keen on erm electing women , but then some men probably are keen on electing women . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The communist party should not be banned , it is true that many members of it did support er an coup , on the other hand so many people joined the communist party for advancement and it 's not very democratic to ban a party which has had su such power and such membership . |
| 5 | It is true that many films and television programmes are about violence and murder and it does n't take long for children to copy ideas . |
| 6 | It is true that many sociologists of religion have suggested definitions of their subject matter , but there is no clear agreement and it can be argued that if we were to stick to only one definition then we would not be able to ask — let alone answer — some of the questions in which they are interested . |
| 7 | ( Nordberg 1980 : 5 ) Certainly it is true that such difficulties emerge particularly with small-scale community studies . |
| 8 | It is true that new crops — turnips , parsnips , swedes , mangelwurzels — diversified the landscape and the food supply , especially by keeping herds alive over winter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | It is true that deconstructive approaches have emerged in American law schools as well as in literature departments . |
| 14 | It is true that all polls showed how popular Mr Smith was with voters , and that he is the most experienced and competent man on offer . |
| 15 | It is true that all cats share many features of their behaviour , down to the tiniest detail . |
| 16 | As my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) said , it is true that better schemes may be available . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is true that Soviet-controlled airfields at Bagram , Kabul , Kandahar and Shindand have runways long enough for long-range strategic aircraft . |
| 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 | It is true that capitalist enterprises will invest only if they expect an ‘ adequate ’ rate of return on capital . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is true that these processes may well have a spatial expression in a specific situation , but there are others to which it is difficult to attribute any physical manifestation , or by definition which can not have a spatial expression at all . |
| 24 | It is true that these developments are likely to reduce the labour-capital ratios in a wide range of industries . |
| 25 | It is true that most prisoners miss sexual contact but not just to get relief . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is true that most jobs have clear cut educational requirements , such that employers assume workers lacking them to be ipso facto unqualified . |
| 29 | To take the last point first , it is true that several scholars have observed that " specification " is a function of the B-line of a couplet . |
| 30 | It is true that several countries have problems with the agricultural part of the round , but those problems will have to be resolved . |