Example sentences of "but it [be] true " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not the image which people like you want to know about , but it is true . |
| 2 | But it is true , Liebchen , ancestry counts , a family line going back 600 years … and I see it in you . ’ |
| 3 | But it is true that , with some 70% of outstanding shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the vaults of friendly business partners , Japanese firms are under little pressure to increase dividends and their managements have few fears of being replaced in a sudden stockmarket coup . |
| 4 | But it is true of us all — it is hard to break from the herd , it is hard to be a rebel , it is hard to be a heretic . |
| 5 | But it is true , she told herself , alone in the dining room , I can not remember why I went out into the hall but there was a reason . |
| 6 | To some extent Ochs is a ‘ type ’ , but it is true there were many Baron Ochses living in Austria between the wars and living in their castles in a style that was far from elegant — in fact , very uncomfortable , as these were not good times for such people . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course it is not fair , but it is true . |
| 8 | But it is true that Bernstein was never invited back . |
| 9 | There was not a lot of laughter in the second act , but it is true there was not a lot in Chaplin 's later life . |
| 10 | The allegation was foreign to Papert and his colleagues , but it is true that Servan-Schreiber would be politically safer and the centre financially more secure , if French industry could contribute substantially to the hardware required for pilot projects . |
| 11 | But it is true , our mates worried that we would have sex with other males when they were n't there . ’ |
| 12 | Whether this has any significant effect upon the vine 's growth has yet to be determined but it is true that the light in Champagne is exceptional for so northern a latitude . |
| 13 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 14 | No one would claim that appearance is everything , but it is true that appearance reveals much about us . |
| 15 | The reason for this is a question of aesthetics , but it is true , nonetheless . |
| 16 | But it is true of the first use , also . |
| 17 | But it is true that Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis come into their own most forcibly when the ball , one side at least , is slightly worn . |
| 18 | ‘ But it is true ? ’ |
| 19 | I ’ m sorry , but it is true . |
| 20 | It may be a heresy to say that poor snow forces people to explore facets of the mountains which do not involve skiing , but it is true . |
| 21 | This is a problem from which the ordinary courts are not immune , but it is true that this type of uncertainty is absent from the rival schemes because there the courts lay down the precise meaning which a term should bear . |
| 22 | The Consumer Credit Act 1974 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 largely prevent these abuses , but it is true that , in so far as those Acts allow them to , finance companies still insist on the terms being as beneficial to themselves as possible . |
| 23 | But it is true . |
| 24 | I had not originally intended to make a great issue of the fact , but it is true to say that the pressure groups that study these matters in great detail are incensed at the way in which the orders have been introduced . |
| 25 | Holiday schemes , in other words , during the Christmas , er , particularly the summer holidays was extremely full in our areas that had these schemes , but it is true to say that some of the children did not pay their full amount . |
| 26 | I was brought up in one myself , but it is true that girls on the whole do better in the subjects traditionally regarded as male subjects in single sex schools . |
| 27 | But it 's true to say that most actors feel their drama school training has left them inadequately prepared for working in television and film by the time they graduate . |
| 28 | ‘ But it 's true , ’ she said aloud , forcing her eyes to focus on the middle distance . |
| 29 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 30 | It 's an old maxim but it 's true : to a great extent , you are what you eat . |