Example sentences of "true that [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true that at this altitude — where crops could be grown but only with constant attention — people were slaves to their land . |
| 2 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 3 | It is certainly true that in many cases warts will regress and even disappear without any treatment , but it is unclear why this should happen and there is no way of predicting which sufferers will be able to rid themselves of the warts or how to stimulate the body 's defence to that end . |
| 4 | It is of course true that in many cases it will be stated that the nave is , for example , twelfth-century , the chancel fifteenth ( with nineteenth-century restorations ) , the north chapel twentieth , and so on , but it will not record the stained glass now gone or the wall monuments which have decayed ( or , obviously , the changes wrought since the booklet was written ) . |
| 5 | But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern . |
| 6 | It is true that in such discussions the judgemental element does not exist in isolation , since it is interwoven with description , technical assessment of moves in play , and so forth , in ways suggested in Wittgenstein 's lectures on aesthetics . |
| 7 | Even in these recession-ridden times , it is true that in most households , expenditure on the needs of children is protected to a greater degree than those of adults , and , in most cases , right across the social spectrum , books command a positive attitude from parents , where they ; are seen as linking directly with a future passport for career success . |
| 8 | It is true that in some countries such reservoirs of capital were already available , amply sufficient not only for their own needs but also anxious to be drawn upon ( for a suitable rate of interest ) by the rest of the world 's economy . |
| 9 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |
| 10 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 11 | It is true that in some respects the two institutions were assimilated , but enough has been said to indicate that the most fundamental disparities , in structure and in procedure , remained unchanged . |
| 12 | It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers . |