Example sentences of "it is true that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not the case , and while it is true that deaf people from different countries can converse with each other better than hearing folk , they all have their own signs and structure . |
| 2 | It is true that high-level Bolshevik theorists in Moscow and Petrograd tended to select , filter , and interpret evidence from the localities in the light of their prevailing general beliefs , so that their conclusions had little foundation in hard evidence . |
| 3 | While it is true that scavenging fish and snails perform a valuable task , a well ordered pool can be equally well maintained without them . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is true that small local fortifications , sometimes churches adapted at great expense by the addition of towers , parapets , walls and even moats , might bring some measure of safety , at least against small bands of soldiers or evil-doers . |
| 6 | It is true that oceanic , river , lake , and only rudimentary land transport had been responsible for the extension of Christendom and the transfer of Iberian culture to Latin America and elsewhere , for the establishment of Dutch power in the East , British hegemony in India , French authority in North Africa , and the carving out of the great territories of white settlement . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds . |
| 11 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( Nordberg 1980 : 5 ) Certainly it is true that such difficulties emerge particularly with small-scale community studies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But while it is true that such a division is discernible , it is also true that the goal is in sight from the start . |
| 24 | It is true that new crops — turnips , parsnips , swedes , mangelwurzels — diversified the landscape and the food supply , especially by keeping herds alive over winter . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Although it is true that European video runs at 25 , US video at 30 and movies worldwide at 24 frames per second , these frame rates are not essential to flicker-free motion . |
| 28 | It is true that additional therapy may be necessary to achieve this end , but that therapy alone , without the preliminary understanding afforded by experiences during regression , would be an uphill task and might never work at all . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If it is true that 7 million tonnes of straw are wasted each year , why is straw so expensive to horse riding , racing , and show jumping stables ? |