Example sentences of "[pers pn] is true [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that somebody has to appoint the Chief Inspector as the Lord Chancellor appoints the judges , but other than that there is not , or rather there should not be , any political interest in the functioning of AIB at all . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is true that everything points back to one 's youth : as a teenager Winters began a bottle collection after discovering a drugstore basement full of abandoned glass containers . |
| 3 | It is true that everyone needs to eat to stay alive , but biological requirements of this sort are too ‘ basic ’ to have much explanatory power ; we do not so much wish to understand why societies produce food as why they produce different kinds of food in different ways . |
| 4 | The tip radius , from being very small , is now very large , practically infinite in fact It is true that we have now a new crack , at right angles to the original one , but then the tendency to propagate a crack which is parallel to the applied stress is usually nil . |
| 5 | While it is true that we have until now been concerned with consciousness , and used the term " mental events " in the ordinary way so as not to include all that may be included in the mental , the rest of the subject-matter of that domain is not thereby excluded from our coming reflections . |
| 6 | It is true that we have had to continue to increase the amount of money that is paid by the Government — by the taxpayer — for restructuring the industry , but we will not reach the ceiling either this year or next year . |
| 7 | Mr Foster said : ‘ It is true that we have not settled our home venue for next season but it will either be still at McMullen Road or another venue . ’ |
| 8 | It is true that we live in an age when people are increasingly more likely to act on intuition , but many are still able to calculate when two and two add up to five . |
| 9 | IT is true that we need a free Press to curb Government excesses , but intruding into people 's privacy and using heavy-handed tactics in stories concerning tragedy is to play into the Government 's hands . |
| 10 | Now although it is true that we need to consider contextual factors to explain what it is that creates a feeling of unity in stretches of language of more than one sentence , we can not say that there are no formal links between sentences in discourse . |
| 11 | If one is talking about second adult rebates , of course it is true that we need to try to simplify the proposals , to overcome the administrative difficulties brought to our attention by local authority associations . |
| 12 | It is true that we did n't speak Polish — well , a few words maybe : Tak , nie , dziękuje . |
| 13 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 14 | It is true that they have recognised that the minister can not be impartial in the way that a judge would be . |
| 15 | Guess The Weight Of The Donkey and Pin The Tail On The Jam Sponge are not , in fact , recognised PR mechanisms at all , contrary to some reports , although it is true that they inspired the electoral systems in Israel and Italy respectively . |
| 16 | I come to you to know if it is true that you hold him here in your charge . ’ |
| 17 | He had all three and felt that at last the play was under way : this was why he had struck north ; this was why he had learned his part ( and God bless Major General Lake of Dumfries and God keep him there ) ; this was his great opportunity and ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed to himself , ‘ if it is true that You have love even for the worst of Your sinners and let Your Son welcome into Paradise the thief on the cross who by a single act redeemed a life of evil , then remember me at Hause Point , remember how I tried to obey Your will and how I saved that innocent young girl and help me here because I swear , if I succeed in my intention here , I will lead a life of charity and Christian duty to the end . |
| 18 | It is true that it squirts a scaldingly hot mixture of hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone at enemies . |
| 19 | It is true that it has only been considered in the context of people of opposite sex ; but that may be primarily because its materialist aspect was developed to regulate the consequences of such unions . |
| 20 | As far as the effect of knowledge about language on pupils ' own language skill is concerned , it is true that it has been difficult or impossible to show any direct cause-and-effect relation between teaching formal grammar and improved writing performance . |
| 21 | It is true that it has been forecast as being upon us for a long time , but things are now really moving in some areas . |
| 22 | ‘ It is true that I fear the part of your nature which at times you do not care to control , ’ Alexei said steadily . |
| 23 | I am always accused of , and criticised for , my comments on the establishment that runs British tennis and it is true that I have been , and will continue to be , critical in the future , but I do believe that constructive critical assessment performs a valuable function . |
| 24 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 25 | Theodore 's reconciliation with Wilfrid took place in the context of Caedwalla 's dramatic ascendancy in southern England and if it is true that he expressed the wish that Wilfrid succeed him at Canterbury ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 43 ) this may have been in recognition of Caedwalla 's new regime with which Wilfrid was associated . |
| 26 | ‘ If we find that it is true that he made these deals he could lose his permit , ’ he said . |
| 27 | It is true that he says that he has checked " difficult readings " against the Oxford text ( p. 9 ) . |
| 28 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |
| 29 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 30 | Although it is true that he understood the distinction between a logical argument about the truth — falsity of religious propositions , and an empirical analysis of who holds which beliefs , in which groups — Freud 's explanatory theory is based on a judgement about the rationality or otherwise of religious beliefs and practices . |