Example sentences of "it is true [conj] most " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is true that most of the mystics rejected life and lived far from it , for the two worlds can never be mixed .
3 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 .
4 It is true that most jobs have clear cut educational requirements , such that employers assume workers lacking them to be ipso facto unqualified .
5 It is true that most prisoners miss sexual contact but not just to get relief .
6 It is true that most foreign investment is for the domestic markets of host countries , and that the ‘ export processing ’ industries that are at the centre of the NIDL thesis account for only a small part of TNC foreign investment in the Third World but , as I have argued for the cases of Mexico and China ( Sklair , 1989 , forthcoming ) , the symbolic significance of export oriented development strategies is extremely important in the contemporary global system .
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