Example sentences of "it is true [that] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is always salutary to question whether edicts are obeyed , and it is true that many of Charlemagne 's do not emphasize sanctions but assume a sense of shared moral responsibility throughout society . |
| 2 | It is true that many people cling to office , or are permitted to do so , and it is often that barnacle-like permanence which gives committees and boards a sense of dull sameness and an unwillingness to reform . |
| 3 | It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds . |
| 4 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 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 | While it is true that many large Victorian family houses have been successfully converted into small flats , the smaller suburban-style houses built in the 1920s and 1930s and copied in the ‘ garden cities ’ and new towns of the 1940s are less amenable to conversion and are often located in such a way within the city that they will have an effect on the life-style and employment opportunities of men and women for generations to come ( McDowell , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 9 | It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on . |
| 10 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 11 | It is true that many people who are hourly-paid avoid work on a Saturday morning because they feel it costs them money — the total tax for the week exceeding the Saturday pay . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( Nordberg 1980 : 5 ) Certainly it is true that such difficulties emerge particularly with small-scale community studies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But while it is true that such a division is discernible , it is also true that the goal is in sight from the start . |
| 17 | It is true that each one of these components rests atop a pyramid of explanations at lower levels . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is true that all cats share many features of their behaviour , down to the tiniest detail . |
| 21 | It is true that all of us human beings manage to cover up our God-likeness by all sorts of unkind and bad behaviour . |
| 22 | Now it is true that all very wide questions have a philosophical aspect . |
| 23 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
| 24 | Secondly , although it is true that all the institutions that are discussed have been described as " marriage " in the relevant literature , the whole point of my argument is that this very fact tends to mislead . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is true that these developments are likely to reduce the labour-capital ratios in a wide range of industries . |
| 27 | It is true that these original objectives and policies of particular types of union concerning the labour and product markets of the relevant occupation and industry have subsequently been modified as the unions amalgamated or became more diversified in terms of their recruitment . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is true that most of the mystics rejected life and lived far from it , for the two worlds can never be mixed . |
| 30 | 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 . |