Example sentences of "[adv] it is true [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is true that ‘ life begins at 40 ’ ( or 50 ) for those who recognize the opportunities available to them after parenting ceases , and are prepared to take advantage of them . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is true that everything points back to one 's youth : as a teenager Winters began a bottle collection after discovering a drugstore basement full of abandoned glass containers . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is true that the foreign trade organisation 's tortoise-like negotiations outpace the snail-like progress of Soviet machine building , but it can not be a thrilling race . |
| 5 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 6 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 7 | Now it is true that all these examples of Christian virtue had other things to offer than a rigorous asceticism and a rather overt and physical way of acting this out . |
| 8 | Now it is true that Weismann was mistaken in thinking that different cells receive different genes , but his reasons for thinking so are illuminating . |
| 9 | Now it is true that Tit for Tat can not be invaded by any nasty strategy , but another nice strategy is a different matter . |
| 10 | Now it is true that if any government tried to lay down exactly what should be taught in universities and polytechnics there would be a great outcry , quite properly . |
| 11 | Now it is true that , as we have seen , the GCSE is intended to test what a candidate can do as well as what he knows and understands ; it is intended , therefore , that the oral part of the examination in languages , including English , shall have a more central importance . |
| 12 | Now it is true that all very wide questions have a philosophical aspect . |
| 13 | Now it is true that the remedy for breach will sound in damages only , but the primary obligation is the same , namely that that which is covenanted to be done will be done . |
| 14 | For surely it is true that whosoever will understand British politics before all things it is necessary that he comprehend the events of 1931 . ' |
| 15 | Maybe it is true that it will take something more than a 44-points thrashing by France to force the IRFU into serious action . |
| 16 | Maybe it is true that the differences between women and men are genetically determined as suggested by Arnold Jago ( Letters NI 191 ) — and it does seem to be men who cause all the wars , poverty , oppression and are now causing the destruction of the planet — so perhaps Mr Jago would agree that there is no hope but to get rid of the lot of them . |
| 17 | Certainly , if one compares living standards today with those experienced in this country one hundred years ago or , to make an even more stark comparison , with those experienced in many Less Developed Countries ( LDCs ) today , then it is true that poverty in the UK in the 1980s is relatively insignificant . |
| 18 | Yet it is true that unless a star has a marked colour , there is nothing to single it out . |
| 19 | Yet it is true that , although Foucault 's " counter-sciences " , by repeatedly demonstrating the apparently endless variety of what is humanly possible , have constantly served to enlarge the scope of " us " at the expense of " other " , they have , at the same time , ended up by making the generality man so imprecise as to be almost meaningless . |
| 20 | Certainly it is true that we can not expect that writers in Palestine thousands of years ago would have talked about sicknesses in the jargon of medical aetiology . |
| 21 | Certainly it is true that No 506 failed and did not operate on the Saturday . |
| 22 | ( Nordberg 1980 : 5 ) Certainly it is true that such difficulties emerge particularly with small-scale community studies . |