Example sentences of "the [adj] truth [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cruel truth is that some animals put some humans to shame . |
| 2 | But the behind-the-scenes truth is that the cast and crew rarely went further than their own back yard . |
| 3 | The stark truth is that thousands of families whose budgets are already stretched face financial ruin unless they moderate their Christmas spending . |
| 4 | The stark truth is that the unemployment figure is still a national scandal . ’ |
| 5 | The simple truth is that most captors of record fish were never heard of before their historical catch and have never been heard of since . |
| 6 | Additional supplies of water are being actively sought , but the simple truth is that the Basingstoke Canal was never designed for the types and levels of boating some people dream of . |
| 7 | The simple truth is that we have both bowled extremely professionally throughout the last series against England . |
| 8 | The simple truth is that for the duration of the tours rugby became the political football in the power-broking struggle currently being played out between the various factions in South African politics . |
| 9 | The simple truth is that in public buildings , in the streets ( and even in the House of Commons ) , there just are n't enough women 's loos to go around and this begs the equally simple question : why ? |
| 10 | The simple truth is that if the British withdrew this country would become an economic wasteland and whether there is a Catholic voting majority at some point in the future or not there will not be a united Ireland as no one would want to pay the enormous costs involved . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The simple truth was that in any case , few such poor families would have had cash that they could have regularly given away . |
| 13 | It really would be very much more practical to have her hair cut , she told herself severely for the umpteenth time , but the simple truth was that she liked having her hair long , loved the feeling of the heavy silken strands on her skin . |
| 14 | The sad truth is that the average collector is unlikely to recover more than the most fragmentary remains of dinosaurs . |
| 15 | As a Usenet writer , Peter Wayner , argued , ‘ the sad truth is that the bill will hardly deter criminals . |
| 16 | The sad truth is that it wo n't achieve anything . |
| 17 | And the sad truth is that most chaps still have this first token of manhood languishing somewhere . |
| 18 | The sad truth is that doctors who spend careers in research may forgo huge incomes from private practice . |
| 19 | The sad truth is that the primary sufferer is much more likely to die if this " enabling " support continues . |
| 20 | But the sad truth is that words are all that Labour has while the Tories rule . |
| 21 | Of course , the actual truth is that there 's different levels in everything , and while some of the worst Hawaiian records were released in the '40s and '50s , some of the greatest Hawaiian records were made at exactly the same time . |
| 22 | The uncomfortable truth is that our rebellion against God has estranged us from him . |
| 23 | Speaking in Castlemilk , Mr Dewar said : ‘ The disgraceful truth is that the poorest in society became poorer in absolute and relative terms during the 1980s . ’ |
| 24 | The cold truth is that such captures are all too rare and it is a daily influx of petty offenders and successfully detected trivia that makes up the major part of the detective 's world . |
| 25 | Aunt Ilsa was in the library ; she had a heavy cold at the time and I am tempted to say we discovered her poring over a map , but the inelegant truth is that she was searching the shelves for a misplaced book when we entered . |
| 26 | The awkward truth is that no power on earth could ease the torment of some Vietnam veterans . |
| 27 | But the sexist truth is that women do n't give a damn . |
| 28 | The terrible truth is that many of them involved in damages or divorce cases in America are retained on a percentage basis . |
| 29 | Mr Lawson said : ‘ The plain truth is that there are no easy answers . |
| 30 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |