Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] true that he " in BNC.
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1 | It is also an image which tells us that , it Gide 's contribution to the liberation of the subjugated was as a writer , it is also true that he exemplified the writer 's inevitably exploitative relation to the same , and that this exploitation persists as an aesthetic mode long after the blindness or impossibility of desire was acknowledged . |
2 | ‘ But it is also true that he is an old family friend . ’ |
3 | It is also true that he was lost without a woman around him . |
4 | It is also true that he accorded certain privileges to the Roman Church , as well as to other religious institutions . |
5 | But it is also true that he describes this final state as one illumined so as " forto se by vnderstondyng whilk is god , and also gostly thynges with a soft swete brennand loue in hym " ( 8.282b. – 82 ) ; and in Mixed Life Rachel is also defined as " of bigynnynge is God , and bitokene liyf contemplatif " ( 30 – 1.342 – 3 ) . |
6 | Nathan had needed no special arrangements : when very well dressed he looks scruffy — I suppose it must be a gift ; it is certainly true that he could n't give it away — and today he was not very well dressed . |
7 | It is certainly true that he gave a sculpture of Our Lady of Sorrows , with a gold heart round her neck , to the hospice . |
8 | ‘ It is quite true that he had the pharmacist 's poodle bitch twice in fifteen minutes on the steps of the Convent of St Mary , but he has had almost every bitch in Porto Venus over the past three years . |