Example sentences of "[adv] true [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is still true to say that many Continental philosophers would hardly be recognised as such by their English-speaking contemporaries . |
| 11 | It is still true to say that the law of sale of goods today is basically the common law , i.e. the law as stated over the years by judges in the process of deciding cases before them . |
| 12 | It may be more true to say that they are not over-stocked , which is a different matter entirely . |
| 13 | In fact it would be even more true to say that they conversed largely by the sign method , overcoming any difficulties which might have arisen over differences m mother tongues . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is probably true to state that a country must achieve sustained increases in real GNP per capita to avoid social and political tension . |
| 16 | It is probably true to say that the first few solo flights are the safest that a student pilot ever makes . |
| 17 | The Congregational historian , Albert Peel , wrote that ‘ it is probably true to say that no one did more to raise the standard of worship in Nonconformist churches ’ than he . |
| 18 | It is probably true to say that the likely arrangements for assessment and recording of pupils ' achievement have provoked more concern among the teaching profession than almost any other area of the National Curriculum . |
| 19 | Generalizing rather , it is probably true to say that Hawaiian-type eruptions are more common on the oceanic island volcanoes than elsewhere ( though the examples of Nyiragongo and Nyamlagira emphasize that it is only a generalization ) , since it is in these environments that the fluid basalt lavas are most likely to be found . |
| 20 | Even now it is probably true to say that the recommendations in the report guide and influence BLR&DD thinking and action on user education funding policy . |
| 21 | Concerning those chemical changes , which were of fantastic magnitude , taking place during the first of these periods , it is probably true to say that most established religions do now , perhaps reluctantly , accept as true the scientific theories governing the associated processes of evolution . |
| 22 | It is probably true to say that these new sensations were at first quite undetected , as such , by himself . |
| 23 | Indeed , it is probably true to say that the House of Commons relies upon the House of Lords to do this job , up to a point . |
| 24 | It is probably true to say that it is in this way , rather than in any other , that governments learn exactly where the limits of tolerance lie . |
| 25 | However , it is probably true to say that Darwin 's theory does not dominate biological thought as much as it used to . |
| 26 | It 's probably true to say that some actors just do n't mix well with other actors or directors . |
| 27 | It was an unjust war if ever there was one ; but it is probably true to say that no one attempted to discriminate morally between the wars of secular lords at this period unless they affected the interests of the Church . |
| 28 | It is probably true to say that there will never be a huge assemblage of flying aircraft , supported by expensive ‘ props ’ on the ground , ever again . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , despite the earnest evangelical endeavours it is probably true to say that many bourgeois groups had little direct interest in working-class morality , as long as work relationships were secured . |
| 30 | Apart from this it was probably true to say that the Truman Administration , well before it came to an end , had run out of ideas on Vietnam ; and it is probably true also that at the end of 1951 the weight of the French problem was beginning to shift : not so much how the US could get France out but how to keep her in . |