Example sentences of "it [be] true [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the following year ( 1905 ) William Hamilton declared to a delegate meeting of the STA that " even if it were true that work would be lost to Edinburgh , it would be better to follow the work and get fair wages than to see the bread taken out of our mouths at home " . |
| 2 | If it were true that research effort in the area of the curriculum promoted teaching commitment , few would quarrel with the proposed obligation on the department . |
| 3 | And I was even more curious as to why it was that Milton Friedman could so confidently assert in his writings a belief in the value of freedom , or Harry Johnson in the value of efficiency or Nicholas Kaldor in the value of equality , if it were true that facts and values could be distinguished so clearly . |
| 4 | Or , from Viz 's phoney letters column , a reader from Dagenham writes : ‘ It 's true that money ca n't buy you happiness . |
| 5 | It 's true that recycling of plastics has n't yet reached the scale of paper or glass , but the label of environmental enemy is undeserved . |
| 6 | It 's true that bulimics are prone to wild mood changes and acts of desperation ( just ask Prince Charles ) . |
| 7 | But while it 's true that Woolf 's disapproval of the film 's distinctive angles and extreme lighting contrasts does betray a degree of conservatism and , in his later campaign against The Man who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , he was clearly the enemy of anything even moderately original , Woolf was not a simple philistine . |
| 8 | It 's true that guarantees are normally given by the manufacturer , but it 's also worth noting that he does n't have to give one . |
| 9 | It 's true that surpluses were accumulated , and transferred in non-economic transactions , and peasants had non-economic reasons for acquiring cash : at the monastery of St-Riquier c.830 , the offerings that came in ( and even if the largest of these came from nobles , the majority , to judge from the beneficaries of miracles , were from peasants ) were worth 300 lb of silver per week . |
| 10 | It 's true that Atari is offering a card drive for desktop PCs , and battery-backed add-in memory cards , but these cost over £1 per kilobyte . |
| 11 | It 's true that Vikings demanded tributes in good silver . |
| 12 | Now it 's jolly difficult to follow an argument of that time when it 's read — I appreciate that — but what I think Darwin is actually saying is this , that it 's true that vertebrates , for example — all vertebrates , from fish to ourselves — have a common pattern of a rigid rod down the middle of the back , segmented muscles either side of it , a mouth at the front , a hollow nerve chord on top , two pairs of fins or legs derived from them , but not three pairs or one pair , but two pairs and so on . |
| 13 | It 's true that quality can still be a little uneven , and for consumers attuned to standardised , blemish-free produce , organic food is something of a cultural challenge . |
| 14 | It 's true that extracts such as Phoebe 's ‘ Think not that I love him … ’ from As You Like It ( Act 3 , Scene 5 ) or Viola 's ‘ 1 left no ring with her … ’ from Twelfth Night ( Act 2 , Scene 2 ) may be all too well known to a panel , but I can not agree with an adjudication policy that would ban these pieces from the audition . |
| 15 | Although it is true that warrants must be for a fixed period and may not be open-ended , the period in question is a relatively long one and may exceed the purposes for which the warrant is initially granted . |
| 16 | It is true that Germany between the wars spawned industrial giants like IG Farben ( founded in 1925 ) , which had interests in metals , chemicals , coal , explosives , film , pharmaceuticals , armaments and synthetic fibres , and which with 120,000 workers , 50 subsidiaries and more than 100 factories was the world 's fourth largest industrial combine . |
| 17 | It is true that America 's economy is more open today , exposing many big firms to foreign competition . |
| 18 | It is true that things have happened above the ground at the Tate , but the Government 's responsibilities for its fabric — the wiring , the structure , the roofs and so on — have been appallingly neglected . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is true that women are kept humble by the nature of their everyday activities . |
| 20 | It is true that women in the main tend to be more lovingly affirming of each other , and use less competitive and down-putting styles of relating than men , but the problem is not only personal : it is embedded in all our social structures . |
| 21 | It is true that women live longer when more of such caring is undertaken hence there are more women carers in absolute terms — 3.5 million compared to 2.5 million men . |
| 22 | If it is true that Britain has lost an empire but not yet found a role , Germany is a country with an identity crisis par excellence . |
| 23 | Now it is true that Tit for Tat can not be invaded by any nasty strategy , but another nice strategy is a different matter . |
| 24 | It is true that manuscript collections of madrigals had reached England earlier and that a minor conservative and non-dramatic madrigalist , Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder , had been in Elizabeth I 's service during the years 1562 to 1578 . |
| 25 | I was brought up in one myself , but it is true that girls on the whole do better in the subjects traditionally regarded as male subjects in single sex schools . |
| 26 | Of the £6 billion increase in the planning total , it is true that £4 billion is for social security , but not all that — indeed , I think that only about £2 billion — is the increase in unemployment benefit . |
| 27 | It is true that cases of seditious words brought before the courts at the time of the disturbances show that disaffection was often expressed in terms of a belief in Stuart legitimism : in early 1715 , Londoner Phillip Hide cursed King George and said " he had no right to the Crowne of England " , whilst on 29 May 1715 , during the Jacobite demonstrations in London , John Burnoist was noticed to be wandering the streets shouting " James the third is right and Lawfull King of England " , the " protector of the protestant religion " , and " George is a Usurper to the Crown " . |
| 28 | If it is true that humankind is fallen , that we are separated from the presence of God by our failure and helplessness and are in need of God 's forgiveness , Abelard 's views do not reflect sufficiently well the seriousness of our predicament . |
| 29 | It is true that history records frequent occasions when this has been forgotten and prejudice has shown itself in religious , racial and class distinctions . |
| 30 | Now it is true that Weismann was mistaken in thinking that different cells receive different genes , but his reasons for thinking so are illuminating . |