Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] not true [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's quite true he 's my boyfriend and our relationship is very special , ’ while he countered : ‘ It 's just not true that we 're going out together , or that she 's my girlfriend . ’ |
| 2 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 3 | ( It is simply not true that all Spanish colonialists were brutal , arrogant exploiters of the indigenous peoples ; there was a great deal of theological questioning and guilt and struggle around this issue , as the lives of such men as Bartolomé de las Casas makes clear . ) |
| 4 | It is simply not true that the mind is , as traditional empiricists used to suppose , a tabula rasa or blank tablet on which experience writes . |
| 5 | It is simply not true that those needs correlate with high spending local authorities . |
| 6 | While it may be true that the highest socioeconomic group uses nothing but Standard English , it is certainly not true that the lowest group uses only Creole , and that the middle classes are those who tend |