Example sentences of "truth is [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that nobody knows — and in so far as there will be an extra cost , that cost shows an unfulfilled need . |
| 2 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 3 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |
| 4 | ‘ The truth is that we get hammered because we are the sport trying to clean up our act and , therefore , our work becomes high profile . |
| 5 | The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like . |
| 6 | The simple truth is that we have both bowled extremely professionally throughout the last series against England . |
| 7 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 9 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 10 | The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’ |
| 11 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 12 | ‘ The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly . |
| 13 | The truth is that there has always been an element of unreality in this view . |
| 14 | Kemp had reported to the group that he would be arriving in Oxford at 3 p.m. — and the simple truth is that he did arrive in Oxford at 3 p.m . |
| 15 | The truth is that he has no apparent difficulties responding to ‘ Val ’ or ‘ Kilmer ’ . |
| 16 | But the truth is that it has entirely disappeared , and , try though they might , later scholars have been unsuccessful in establishing any convincing connection with any extant instrument . |