Example sentences of "true that [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , since the UK economy has historically always been a highly open economy , it is especially true that what happens locally is strongly influenced by international changes . |
| 3 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 4 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 5 | It is true that we did n't speak Polish — well , a few words maybe : Tak , nie , dziękuje . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 9 | But is it true that we learn just by virtue of being busy and having lots of experiences ? |
| 10 | It is true that they set up the great caring institutions for the poor , the handicapped and the sick — forerunners of the welfare state . |
| 11 | It was true that they had mostly been forgotten , left unappreciated . |
| 12 | It was true that they had all been children when he was taken away , but they remembered him as kind always . |
| 13 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ But it is certainly true that there have never been a king and queen who are divorced . |
| 15 | And is n't it also true that he kept fairly quiet about it ? ) Þingvellir is a curious place . |
| 16 | It was true that he had never said he would marry me , but he had said that when the war was over he would write to me and try to come back . |
| 17 | I 'm sure it was true that he did n't know the place was let to me ‘ |
| 18 | And he said , but he 's nothing to do with Surrealism , which I expect is true that he did n't belong to the party but then perhaps Spaniards are , in any case , basically surrealist . |
| 19 | INTERVIEWER : Miss Greene , is it true that you know perhaps , a little , about the life of a shopgirl ? |
| 20 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 21 | It 's true that I do n't fancy John any more . |
| 22 | And it 's not true that I do n't get anything out of it when I see him . |
| 23 | The only thing that I would ask everybody in Oxfordshire is to write to our M P's here because er yes it 's true that I do n't know what the returns are from last night 's voting , but I do know that er the only local MP that I can see on the voting on the last occasion was John Patten , here in Abingdon , and he voted no . |
| 24 | Upon being asked why he shed tears , he replied , ‘ It is indeed true that I do not know a word of the Gita . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose it 's true that I have n't really proved myself at Sunderland . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 28 | And was it also true that she saw only bad in Maisie 's boy ? |
| 29 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 30 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |