Example sentences of "[be] [adv] true to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be more true to say that they are not over-stocked , which is a different matter entirely . |
| 2 | It might be argued by some that his approach was too prosaic , but it would perhaps be more true to say that he cloaked classical ideals in the trappings of his own environment . |
| 3 | If someone , looking at a flower , said , ‘ It 's blue ’ , on account of what he saw , drawing no inferences , and not lying , then it would be psychologically true to say that it looked blue to him even though it would be linguistically odd to say this if one had no reason to doubt that the flower was blue . |
| 4 | Thus it would be virtually true to say that ultimately fossil fuels serve as food in developed countries . |
| 5 | They 've said things that were n't true to say , could n't they , I mean , they thought it too simple to even say . |
| 6 | Whilst the 1985 Act obliges us to ‘ afford access to our lands for the purposes of knowledge and enjoyment ’ , it is perhaps true to say that most visitors , possibly as many as 95% , make use of the Gardens as an amenity , and that we may have failed to emphasise the ‘ knowledge ’ goal . |
| 7 | Although some remarkably conservation-conscious agents exist , it is generally true to say that land-agents have played , and continue to play , a significant role in hastening the destruction of the English landscape by intensive agriculture . |
| 8 | Despite these particular difficulties with older urban areas , it is generally true to say that in less than a decade the Dutch created and adopted a revolutionary residential environment which , even in car-dominated cities , displayed many of the benefits of the street in the pre-motorised era . |
| 9 | Fourthly it is generally true to say that fewer people are required to operate such systems and those employed are normally kept outside the main storage area . |
| 10 | It is generally true to say that if the area is predominantly rural then the geographical extent of the restriction can sometimes be greater than if an urban area is under consideration . |
| 11 | However , it is not true to say that it is dangerous to apply the opposite rudder in an incipient spin . |
| 12 | Admittedly , it is not true to say that Esau is not blessed by God . |
| 13 | It is not true to say that a menstruating woman is unclean — she has a status of tameh , a word which has been wrongly translated for years as ‘ unclean ’ but which would be much better translated as ‘ impure ’ . |
| 14 | It is not true to say that anything is justified in a good cause : vulgarity , exhibitionism and ugliness are things to be avoided . |
| 15 | But it is not true to say that a legacy or institution made in terms other than these was unquestionably void . |
| 16 | So , although it is not true to say that all tortoiseshell cats are females , it is true to say that they are all feminine — even the rare males . |
| 17 | While political organization among lesbians and gays may be taking a low profile , it is not true to say that the clocks have been turned back . |
| 18 | ‘ It is not true to say that because we are not meeting EC directives absolutely that the water is poisoned , ’ said Mr Byatt . |
| 19 | It is not true to say of oral cultures that there is a peculiar ‘ directness of relationship between meaning and referent ’ , that ‘ the meaning of each word is ratified in a succession of concrete situations ’ only , that meanings in oral cultures are always particular and specific . |
| 20 | This suggest that , in many cases , it is not true to say that lobby correspondents slavishly follow the Downing Street line on a story . |
| 21 | The Government 's response was : ’ it is not true to say that the reserves are lost forever if pits currently accessing them are closed . ’ |
| 22 | It is not true to say that Freshfayre contacted Compact and neither were the staff of Compact aware until much later of Mr Bell 's interests in the company . |
| 23 | Allowing for exaggeration , it is nevertheless true to say that the Emperor lived up to the Idea in so far as the re-ordering of Paris was concerned . |
| 24 | While not doubting the pharmacological dimension to drug-addiction , it is nevertheless true to say that in many cases this is only an external consequence of an existing internal dependency which is just as addictive , even though repressed . |
| 25 | the important thing in the last two years , everything has to be in , as I say it 's not true to say everything but quite a lot of things have been in , so both those are , are the . |
| 26 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 27 | He says that a substantial amount has been paid in benefits , it 's not true to say that they owe the tenants a large amount of arrears . |
| 28 | A spokeswoman for the liquidator of Continental , Cork Gully , said : ‘ It 's not true to say that the club wo n't get any money but at the moment we do n't know how much any pay-out will be . ’ |
| 29 | Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information . |
| 30 | Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication . |