Example sentences of "[is] [adv] true that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As regards the market within the firm , it is obviously true that managers are frequently competitive by nature and hence will exert themselves in their quest for personal advancement within the organisational hierarchy . |
| 2 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 3 | Efforts made by communist states to reduce inequalities vary , but it is generally true that bureaucrats are better off than those they rule . |
| 4 | It is generally true that PageMaker users find out about some 80–90% of the program 's capabilities just by playing around . |
| 5 | It is generally true that people are in the greatest difficulties when the external world confirms their worst fears about themselves , and are at their happiest when it confirms their best fantasies . |
| 6 | While Uvarov 's periodization is obviously too clear cut , it is nevertheless true that Speranskii 's reform of the territory 's administration — including the operation of the exile system and the regularization of relations with the Siberian natives — created , in theory , if not always in practice , a more rational and equitable framework for the government and management of the Siberian lands which remained more or less in situ until the upheavals of 1917 . |
| 7 | It is moreover true that names are often deliberately chosen for their descriptive content . |
| 8 | In the 1980s , it is still true that males have higher mortality rates than females at all ages ( except possibly after reaching the age of 100 years : OPCS 1987 : 5 ) ; but the number of deaths in childhood and early adult life is now so small that it is not until individuals reach their late forties , that women actually outnumber men of the same birth cohort . |
| 9 | So while the practice of resignation has been re-established , it is still true that ministers are not expected to suffer for the shortcomings of their staff . |
| 10 | It is easy to understand Bilbo 's pity but it is still true that Gollum deserved death for all the wrong he did , but Frodo must remember that it would be unfair to Gollum as there are others who also deserve death . |
| 11 | Among many other factors , it is probably true that smoking may be a contributory cause of the disease . |
| 12 | It is also true that public complaining , impossible under the old regime , has grown enormously with the advent of a free press . |
| 13 | Genuine cannibalism has certainly been a characteristic of human culture in many different parts of the world at many different periods of history ; but it is also true that explorers , missionaries , and respected anthropologists have all , very frequently , given credence to stories about cannibalism which have no basis in any kind of evidence . |
| 14 | It is also true that responses are a function of enormous differences between and within individuals . |
| 15 | It is also true that Parliament 's opinion is ascertained primarily from the words it has used . |
| 16 | It is also true that studies of this kind tend only to highlight differences without revealing the qualitative nature of the differences . |
| 17 | It is also true that section 2(8) does not provide complete protection , since information obtained in answer to questions ( such as , for example , the location of funds in a foreign bank account ) can lead to the disclosure of damaging facts which once known can be proved by other means , even if the answers themselves can not be put in evidence . |
| 18 | It is true , for instance , that God is good ; and it is also true that Julius Caesar invaded Britain . |
| 19 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 20 | It is also true that Mr Brown , despite his political prowess , has never run in a statewide race . |
| 21 | It is also true that Kilvert had no gift for self-analysis , and further that the diary was impoverished by his widow 's removal from it of the volumes which apparently described not only their courtship and marriage , but the two most profound of Kilvert 's previous affairs of the heart ; though she left the frequent passages describing Kilvert 's passionate attachments to young girls , whose fundamentally erotic nature it is clear that neither she nor Kilvert himself recognized . |
| 22 | It is also true that speakers in all classes use more standard variants in formal than in casual speech ( this is known to sociolinguists as styleshift ) . |
| 23 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 24 | But it is also true that Rolle was in the habit of reworking old material with variations in different works and that the manuscript ascriptions to him suggest that there was no discomfort in seeing the Meditations as part of the Rolle canon in the late medieval period . |
| 25 | It is perfectly true that Blake did have a battery-operated radio in his cell which worked on medium and long waves only . |
| 26 | It 's been said before , but it 's perfectly true that Scorpio is the most enigmatic and least understood of all the zodiac signs . |
| 27 | It is equally true that Lord Diplock has stated that the normal presumption is that Parliament intends questions of law to be decided by the courts , but his Lordship did not state that this was an irrebuttable presumption . |
| 28 | It is equally true that firms and households are less likely to operate efficiently in a period of inflation , for a number of reasons . |
| 29 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 30 | It is equally true that Opposition Members seem obsessed with pursuing the business community with prosecutions and they frequently question me about that across a wide range of Government policies — something which I regret , but with which I have become rather familiar . |