Example sentences of "true that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that no major course development has been held up by administrative constraints , the range of decisions with administrative effects ( deadlines , counting rules , etc. , as well as the information base about approved fields ) imposes a permanent culture of change on the administration of the Course . |
| 2 | It is true that a substantial body of opinion in various parts of the world would have preferred to see whether relying on sanctions for longer would have brought about Iraq 's withdrawal . |
| 3 | One can say ( he held ) that it is absolutely true that a certain characteristic always gives rise to the property of prima facie obligatoriness . |
| 4 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 5 | Is it true that a great army is coming , and the war has ended ? ’ |
| 6 | It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources . |
| 7 | It is true that a good marathon time shows that you have both fitness and endurance , but because of the effort you have made , you will not be able to exploit those gains for some time . |
| 8 | You do n't need guests , you do n't need freezing weather or any other excuse to put pudding on the menu — although it is true that a good pudding shared with like-minded Billy Bunters makes for a convivial party , and if the day dawns cold and frosty it may give an agreeable edge to appetites . |
| 9 | It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention . |
| 10 | Now it is certainly true that a complex whole necessarily contains relations of subordination and domination if the presence of principal and secondary contradictions within it is made into a defining characteristic . |
| 11 | While it is true that a sensitive adult will respond intuitively to a child 's language and make numerous adjustments to his or her own language in a way that will reflect the child 's strengths and weaknesses , it may nevertheless be helpful to make these explicit in a written assessment so that intuitions can be further re fined on the basis of objective information . |
| 12 | The requirements for military or test pilots place less emphasis on the number of flying hours required and this is compensated for by the more stringent type of flying they have been involved in ( though it is true that a large proportion of airline pilots learned to fly and served in military aviation before becoming civil pilots ) . |
| 13 | Is not it true that a large number of small firms are in the tourism sector ? |
| 14 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 15 | It is by no means true that a rising tone is always used for questions in English ; it is quite usual , for example , to use a falling tone with questions beginning with one of the ‘ wh-question-words ’ like ‘ what ’ , ‘ which ’ , ‘ when ’ , etc . |
| 16 | While it is impossible to either prove or disprove this estimate , as a matter of observation it is true that a high proportion of churches seem to attract ‘ their kind of people ’ . |
| 17 | It is no doubt true that a biological perspective will make one more suspicious of extremely intellectualist or , again , very purist views of morality ; but equally , so will a reasonable historical and psychological understanding of morality . |
| 18 | Of course , this view is based on a foolish misapprehension ; but it is probably nevertheless true that a mistaken view of psychoanalysis , and a misuse of its teachings , has contributed in no small part to our present social predicament . |
| 19 | It is true that a military coalition of sorts has existed in Indo-China since the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea and Laos . |
| 20 | For instance , it is not realistic to expect that trains will run regularly at fixed intervals throughout the day and night , nor is it true that the mean time between vehicles is the same over a 24-hour period . |
| 21 | That is , it will be true , if there is no other causal circumstance for b on hand , and no alternative for a , that If B & C , even if X , still A. To speak informally , in terms of the example , the hot coffee together with other things guaranteed dissolved sugar , but it may also be true that the dissolved sugar , together with ( different ) other things , guaranteed the hot coffee . |
| 22 | And it is certainly true that the surveying profession was outraged at the ‘ Flynn system , ’ as it was soon called . |
| 23 | It is true that the market-leading software packages have perhaps displayed greater longevity , but whilst the base product apparently remains the same version numbers change rapidly with incompatibilities being introduced with each new version . |
| 24 | If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output . |
| 25 | It is true that the increasing scale of certain enterprises in post war Britain can be traced to speculative financial considerations ( primarily among those which Channon identifies as ‘ acquisitive diversifiers ’ ) , and that many such enterprises have failed to exploit economies of scale and have shown a poor record even in terms of profitability . |
| 26 | Even if it be true that the Roman system of water supply survived in Perugia and a few other cities into the Middle Ages and has been believed to be better than anything the modern world has yet provided — in most places water was hard to come by and almost as expensive at times as wine . |
| 27 | It is still true that the political drive towards the National Curriculum is towards uniformity , so that the consumer — still seen as the parent , . |
| 28 | It is true that the capitalist system of production with its inherent conflicts between workers and management makes for inefficiency but it is not necessarily true , as they claim , that collectivism is a more powerful force for productivity than individualism . |
| 29 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 30 | It is also true that the partial molar Gibbs free energies of each component are equal at this point and it emerges that the conditions for incipient phase separation are |