Example sentences of "it is true that in " in BNC.

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1 It is true that in such discussions the judgemental element does not exist in isolation , since it is interwoven with description , technical assessment of moves in play , and so forth , in ways suggested in Wittgenstein 's lectures on aesthetics .
2 It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content .
3 It is true that in later times particular questions arising in a case before him , suitable for trial by jury , are sometimes directed by the Chancellor to be so tried .
4 It is true that in Britain the matter is now regulated by statute and to that extent it has been flushed into the open .
5 It is true that in film the ‘ image ’ , however symbolically intended or perceived , is always ‘ literalised ’ by the medium itself .
6 It is true that in some respects the two institutions were assimilated , but enough has been said to indicate that the most fundamental disparities , in structure and in procedure , remained unchanged .
7 With binoculars the chances are obviously much less , but one never knows — and it is true that in 1885 a supernova blazed out in the Andromeda Spiral and almost reached naked-eye visibility .
8 It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses .
9 It is true that in grammar some linguistic choices may be designated " unmarked " and " neutral " in contrast to others : for example , the choice of third-person pronouns ( he , she , they , etc ) may be regarded as neutral in narration as compared with I and you .
10 It is true that in 1914 most Russian workers still had rural ties and very often owned land .
11 It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world .
12 It is true that in rejecting the [ applicants ' ] daughters they referred to and relied upon their admission criteria but in my judgment they were entitled to use those criteria to decide priorities pursuant to section 6(3) ( a ) .
13 It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak .
14 It is true that in Dudley and Stephens the jury found that the boy was in a much weaker condition than the others and was likely to have died before them .
15 Even in these recession-ridden times , it is true that in most households , expenditure on the needs of children is protected to a greater degree than those of adults , and , in most cases , right across the social spectrum , books command a positive attitude from parents , where they ; are seen as linking directly with a future passport for career success .
16 It is true that in the first aid world the manual is regarded as a sort of bible .
17 Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage .
18 It is true that in peacetime a large proportion of these ships were normally laid up and had their crews paid off : only when war was imminent or had broken out were they brought back into service .
19 It is true that in the law relating to misrepresentation , the seller can not be liable for failing to disclose defects in the goods but only for any actual statements made by him or his agents .
20 While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities .
21 It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton .
22 It is true that in some countries such reservoirs of capital were already available , amply sufficient not only for their own needs but also anxious to be drawn upon ( for a suitable rate of interest ) by the rest of the world 's economy .
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