Example sentences of "it [is] [adv] true that [art] " in BNC.

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31 But while it is true that such a division is discernible , it is also true that the goal is in sight from the start .
32 For this reason , it is undoubtedly true that the problem becomes less as you become more experienced and will eventually disappear .
33 It is undoubtedly true that the audience plays no active part in the production of content and that audience feedback is minimal but , as some have pointed out , the communicators ' image of the audience can affect the content of mass communication .
34 It is undoubtedly true that the earliest buildings completed in the Gothic style come from the Île de France , a small area in the neighbourhood of Paris , and that the classic pattern of northern Gothic cathedral was established here , witness such famous examples as Notre Dame , Paris , Reims , Amiens and Laon .
35 It is very true that the written word can so often reach people more easily than the spoken word can do .
36 It is certainly true that no two zebras are exactly alike in the details of their black and white lines .
37 It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources .
38 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 .
39 It is certainly true that a State of Emergency was in effect for most of the period of hostilities , being lifted in January 1987 .
40 It is certainly true that a few generalisations can be made about the attitudinal functions of some components of intonation .
41 While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation .
42 More neutrally it is certainly true that the range of courses we offer continues to increase .
43 It is perhaps overstating the case to say that motorists can speed with impunity in residential areas , but it is certainly true that the limit is widely disregarded and rarely enforced .
44 It is certainly true that the huge costs of new model development , including the cost of meeting higher environmental standards , have forced many European car manufacturers to collaborate or merge .
45 It is certainly true that the priorities favoured by one style of management have no guarantee of being upheld by another .
46 It is certainly true that the climate for attracting new recruits to the professions is not improved by continued reporting on the doom and gloom aspects of working in the NHS .
47 TNC has been strongly attacked for taking a very narrow and old fashioned view of the curriculum as a collection of subjects ; and it is certainly true that the more sophisticated thinking of HMI on these matters appears to have been disregarded .
48 It is certainly true that the individual is more sensitive to particular types of influence at some developmental stages than at others , but to say that tells us little , either about the extent to which the period can be shifted or about the reasons for the increased sensitivity .
49 It is certainly true that the Cournot and Stackelberg equilibria in general involve smaller welfare losses , and lower levels of excess profit , than would be the case if the firms acted as a joint profit-maximizing monopoly or cartel but , none the less , contingent on market parameters , allocative inefficiency could still be quite large .
50 It is certainly true that the location of care is changing .
51 It is certainly true that the actions of the CIA and M16 were important .
52 It is certainly true that the large amount of rock dust given off from dry-drilling machines , " widow makers " , gave rise to an upsurge in the incidence of respiratory diseases — notably silicosis .
53 It is certainly true that the Spey engines have proved an outstanding success .
54 It is certainly true that the value of the firm is equal to the sum of its assets .
55 And it is certainly true that the surveying profession was outraged at the ‘ Flynn system , ’ as it was soon called .
56 It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis .
57 It is often true that the oppressed tend to accept the thinking of those who oppress them , Celie told her step-son to beat his overpowering wife for she resented her pity and independent ways .
58 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 .
59 On training credits , as we have repeatedly made clear , it is perfectly true that the best approach for young people is a voluntary approach .
60 It is perfectly true that an ad is useless if no one notices it .
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