Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [adv] true " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a saying which is n't entirely true that the politics stops at the waters ' edge . |
| 2 | Such usage also reinforces the common but mistaken idea that authors are normally men rather than women ( an idea which is probably only true of the canon of writers selected for study — generally by male critics — not of writing as a whole ) . |
| 3 | The problem with the big boys , he reckons , is they believe customers already equate their name with quality , which is not necessarily true . |
| 4 | We generally get a picture of a money-grabbing solicitor which is not really true . |
| 5 | The implication is that two injections are better than one , which is not always true , and that less strict glycaemic control is acceptable with a shorter expected lifespan , which seems reasonable . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not exactly true , ’ Marguerite confided as Alain went out to answer the telephone . |
| 7 | It does not imply that the story is completely untrue , but that it is not literally true . |
| 8 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 9 | It is true that the capitalist system of production with its inherent conflicts between workers and management makes for inefficiency but it is not necessarily true , as they claim , that collectivism is a more powerful force for productivity than individualism . |
| 10 | Even if real output per capita rises , it is not necessarily true that actual economic welfare will have improved . |
| 11 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 12 | It is not entirely true that people are as handicapped as we , the comparatively unhandicapped , are prepared to handicap them , but there is more than a grain of truth in that statement . |
| 13 | Finally , it is not entirely true that the wave is the independent variable and the beach the dependent one , because the form of the wave , at least when it nears the coast , is to some extent dictated by the form of the beach and the immediate offshore bottom . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , my dear , it is not entirely true . |
| 15 | Incidentally , now that I come to think further about it , it is not quite true to say there was no dispute as to who were the great butlers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In any case , it is not quite true that the subject can be perceived , so to speak , only in recollection . |
| 18 | It is not quite true that the currents of migration and urbanisation were the same . |
| 19 | The media love to compare controlled hot fusion with ‘ harnessing the power of the Sun on Earth ’ , and I have used that idiom in this chapter heading ; yet it is not really true . |
| 20 | Hence it is not always true that the natural way of classifying a set of objects is hierarchical ; nor was it immediately obvious that this is the best way of classifying living things . |
| 21 | It is not always true that combining two substances into one releases energy . |
| 22 | To be more specific , he showed that , if chemical substances react in a medium through which they can diffuse , it is not always true that the reactants will become uniformly distributed . |
| 23 | It is not always true that either the London agencies or the " big boys " of the business are the places where you 'll learn a more professional approach . |
| 24 | It is not always true that deficiencies in service are to blame . |
| 25 | Besides the fact that it is not always true — the bare infinitive has many uses where it is not in relation with an auxiliary — this distinction between the two infinitives is also purely distributional : Schibsbye simply lists the various contexts where each infinitive is found without developing any difference of meaning . |
| 26 | It is not symbolically true : it is symbolically false . |
| 27 | It is most certainly true that Kenyans must decide their own future , but in this case the Kenyan president has taken a decision which does not serve his people well . |
| 28 | If this has been true of the past , it is even more true of the present and seems likely to be truer still of the future . |
| 29 | Sadly it is no longer true that the present day pattern of fields is much the same as that shown on enclosure maps . |
| 30 | Of course , this view is based on a foolish misapprehension ; but it is probably nevertheless true that a mistaken view of psychoanalysis , and a misuse of its teachings , has contributed in no small part to our present social predicament . |