Example sentences of "was true that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , he said , it was true that the houses had grapes on the outside walls . |
| 2 | But equally it was true that the circumstances of my review were very different from those of Lord Beveridge . |
| 3 | It was true that the press gave far more attention to shortcomings than had been the case in the recent past , but those shortcomings were a feature of life itself and would not disappear if the newspapers simply ignored them . |
| 4 | It was true that the shower curtain should have been renewed . |
| 5 | It was true that the water might rise and swamp you . |
| 6 | It was true that the chains ' capacity for negotiating good deals made it hard for the family-run business to keep going , and they had many letters offering businesses for sale , and the price of shops was coming down all the time . |
| 7 | It was true that the turnout was a meagre 37 per cent of the electorate , by far the lowest in Europe , where the average was 59 per cent , but it was still two million people . |
| 8 | It was true that the members of the court sometimes seemed to be in competition in their attempts to gratify Artai 's vanity . |
| 9 | Maybe it was true that the Devil got all the best lines . |
| 10 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 11 | It was true that the marchers were outnumbered but many of the men and women attending the rally had merely bought tickets for the show rather than as a gesture of commitment to Mosley . |
| 12 | And it was true that the Captain was proceeding as though they were . |
| 13 | It was true that the Simonova 's earthing crew had been slow to react — the more so since they must have been required to perform a similar task on both of the platforms which had been docked and inspected previously . |
| 14 | It was true that the round had taken 4½ hours , but this included time wasted by crowd interference and inadequate marshalling arrangements . |
| 15 | And indeed , even discounting the role so evidently played by nostalgia in Hume 's thinking , it was true that the administration of India , beginning with the viceroyalty of John Lawrence , had become steadily more centralized and more detached . |
| 16 | It was true that the longevity drug was available as a rule only to nobles . |