Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] true that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " . |
| 2 | If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department . |
| 3 | Or , from Viz 's phoney letters column , a reader from Dagenham writes : ‘ It 's true that money ca n't buy you happiness . |
| 4 | It 's true that recycling of plastics has n't yet reached the scale of paper or glass , but the label of environmental enemy is undeserved . |
| 5 | It 's true that quality can still be a little uneven , and for consumers attuned to standardised , blemish-free produce , organic food is something of a cultural challenge . |
| 6 | Now it is true that Tit for Tat can not be invaded by any nasty strategy , but another nice strategy is a different matter . |
| 7 | It is true that manuscript collections of madrigals had reached England earlier and that a minor conservative and non-dramatic madrigalist , Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder , had been in Elizabeth I 's service during the years 1562 to 1578 . |
| 8 | If it is true that humankind is fallen , that we are separated from the presence of God by our failure and helplessness and are in need of God 's forgiveness , Abelard 's views do not reflect sufficiently well the seriousness of our predicament . |
| 9 | It is true that history records frequent occasions when this has been forgotten and prejudice has shown itself in religious , racial and class distinctions . |
| 10 | It is true that marriage is , or may be , a detriment to the plaintiff ; but detriment to the plaintiff is not enough , unless it either be a benefit to the testator , or be treated by the testator as such , by having been suffered at his request . |
| 11 | It is true that knowledge of the probable origins of the meditations in a series of Anglo-Norman prayers points to the possibility that they have been freely adapted by various compilers who may or may not have included Rolle . |
| 12 | It is true that liberalism could not back a jacquerie and that it preferred to paternalism the teaching of political economy in schools . |
| 13 | It is true that water and watery substances can not be absorbed into the bloodstream through the skin , although the upper layers will temporarily hold a little water . |
| 14 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 15 | It is true that relief from the parish might be obtained in case of distress , but there would always be those whose pride would forbear them from applying for the pittance — at least they would avoid the humiliating and rigorous means test . |
| 16 | It is true that cortico steroid s will promote infection by Candida in susceptible individuals , because they have a general depressive effect on the immune system ( see p 318 ) . |
| 17 | It is true that literacy seems to generate a sense of rigidly structured social order and a consciousness of historical change which is qualitatively different from the loose structural metaphors and the " mythological " view of the past which anthropologists usually encounter in " wild " ( sauvage ) societies . |
| 18 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 19 | While it is true that village women in India have little power or status in society as a whole , Janet misunderstands what lies behind the caring and ‘ fussing ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | While it is true that self-evaluation was officially a requirement of participating schools , and that at least one school undertook some evaluation which it broadened to a development of its original project proposal into a statement of library policy for the school as a whole , specific requirements for precise and quantitative monitoring were absent . |
| 22 | It is true that ruach is used of man 's spirit in a number of ways . |
| 23 | Objectively , it is true that Okapi nearly always retrieves as much as or more than LIBERTAS , but LIBERTAS sometimes outputs records in a more sensible order , keeping editions of the same work together and taking word adjacency into account in the weighting procedure ( so that records containing the actual search statement come out first ) . |
| 24 | Of course it is true that construction , distribution and services are often very labour intensive sectors even in the West , but in Japan not only are these three sectors more labour intensive , so also is manufacturing industry . |
| 25 | Together they illustrate that , even if it is true that Conservatism harbours ‘ a distrust of the purely intellectual approach in politics ’ , this in itself is an ideological position with important implications in terms of both the theory and practice of Conservatism , and Honderich concludes that ‘ the commodious proposition that Conservatives only have and only favour factual beliefs which have passed the test of time , are empirical and so on , and hence are untheoretical in various senses … needs to be delivered , if necessary by private contractors , to the rubbish heap of history ’ . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is possible to show that there was a marked increase in the number of married children living with parents during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century in cotton towns — quite the reverse of what one would expect if it is true that industrialization broke up the extended family . |
| 27 | ‘ Although it is not made of gold , it is true that gold is a very common metal there . |
| 28 | It is true that rule-breaking is a national pastime in a country like Italy ; but that is a problem which is no doubt capable of being resolved by a European government with sufficient teeth . |
| 29 | But if it is true that change is not always linear , then surely even the average candidate must know this , if he is to understand the concept of change . |
| 30 | That having been said , it is true that attack is predicted by other postures only about half as well as escape . |