Example sentences of "[is] true [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true we have not yet been told , nor has Abraham , that Sarah will be the mother of the son on whom everything depends . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , there are plans for a musical , it is true we are talking about doing one with Kylie and we all very much want it to happen , ’ admitted Pete Waterman . |
| 3 | If this is true we might expect paired males to be more vigilant than bachelor males . |
| 4 | FA chief executive Graham Kelly admitted : ‘ It is true we had reservations but there was a lot of feeling within FIFA and UEFA to the get the principle on the statute . ’ |
| 5 | Intuitively , if the hypothesis that is true we would expect and to be approximately equal in a large sample , since that implies that both models explain the behaviour of Y equally well . |
| 6 | A : It is true we had a perfectly wonderful time . |
| 7 | It is true we did increase the pupil to teacher ratio to one to thirteen in line with the F E er guidelines and that of course did provide some extra nursery places but last year we did put in real resources and actually increased the number of nursery places by about four hundred which involved the development of several new nursery classes , so it is completely untrue to say that the Conservatives attempted to increase nursery education on the cheap . |
| 8 | It is true they did not survive unscathed and that the Bodleian Library was founded well after the Reformation , but many a manuscript discarded from the monasteries fetched up in the possession of one of the colleges , and private men such as Sir Thomas Bodley soon repaired the broken links . |
| 9 | It is true they hit very hard but they are often inaccurate and are not as useful against big units as you might suppose . |
| 10 | In those days a man was allocated duties , it is true they tried to arrange that he was on early spread , medium or late duties but it did n't always work out because of holidays , sickness or that but erm there were no restriction on hours . |
| 11 | The quotation he give was sixty five and as he said which is true they double every five years . |
| 12 | In other words , is it possible for a person to know his need , to know that if Christianity is true it provides an answer , to know on the basis of sufficient evidence that it is in fact true , and yet believe inadequately ? |
| 13 | Naturally the DOE takes notice since if this is true it will solve their financial problems . |
| 14 | A striking example of their dissociation is provided by the following exchange : on the one hand , Runciman takes it for granted that methodological individualism is ‘ now generally conceded to be almost trivially true ’ , while on the other Torrance asserts that ‘ In so far as methodological individualism is true it is trivial and irrelevant to sociology , while in so far as it is used to curb or dictate explanatory methods it is either incoherent or false ’ . |
| 15 | So if it is true it is false . |
| 16 | He was collecting for over forty years and , as Miller was a regular recipient of Bartram 's shipments , it can be assumed that ‘ a large proportion of plants credited to Miller as introducer consisted of collections by Bartram and if this is true he was probably responsible for the first appearance in the gardens of England of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred plants ’ ( John Hendley Barnhart , ‘ Significance of John Bartram 's Work to Botanical and Horticultural Knowledge ’ , Bartonia Special Issue , 1931 ) . |
| 17 | So as soon as someone has faced the critical nature of his dilemma without God ( the first level ) and has come to recognize that if God 's revelation is true he does have a meaningful answer to his dilemma ( the second level ) , then , logically , the next urgent question is , But how may I know that God 's revelation is true ? |
| 18 | If it is true he is on £4,000-a-week and is asking for more , Brian Clough is right — as usual — to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 19 | It is true he could have told you of me what now I have told you . |
| 20 | We cooked and served the meal that Sir Thomas had recently eaten ; it is true he could have taken the poison afterwards , however , or when he was away from the table during the entremets . |
| 21 | If what you say is true he must know that the results would be checked ? ’ |
| 22 | Does Astrophil , who is the ostensible author , mean he loves truth or that it is true he is in love ? |
| 23 | She apologises for her simplicity , giving a busy woman 's reason : ‘ T is true I write in shortened measure , Because I scrawl but at my leisure ; For why ? — sublimity of style Takes up a most prodigious while … |
| 24 | It could not be just the billowing Circassian trousers , though it is true I find trousers on women an anaphrodisiac . |
| 25 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 26 | ‘ 'T IS true you 're mighty fair … |
| 27 | ‘ To ask if it is true you have a room that can be rented . |
| 28 | This is true you know . |
| 29 | Miss Anthony 's London agent tells me : ‘ Lysette is filming The Hour of The Pig , in France , at the moment and it is true she is discussing some forthcoming projects , but I can not tell you what they are . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If what I hear is true she 's sharpening her claws on her daughter-in-law these days , ’ said Rose . |