Example sentences of "the truth [be] [that] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The truth is that we are now condemned to live with a dual consciousness .
2 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 .
3 The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like .
4 The truth is that we are both trainee Eddie Charltons : slow , grim , defensive and almost joyless .
5 ‘ But the truth is that we were never engaged , so she never broke off the engagement , you see . ’
6 The truth is that we are dealing not with one-off exceptional cases of hardship , affecting only a small minority of students , but with a widespread and damaging problem affecting thousands of students .
7 The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines .
8 The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks .
9 But the truth is that they just wake up .
10 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 .
11 ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . )
12 If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place .
13 The truth is that they were n't built as embankments , but the drained marshes have shrunk , while the ballasted railway has retained its original dimensions .
14 And the truth is that whatever it is that has been unleashed , it 's barely out of the box . ’
15 The truth is that nobody knows — and in so far as there will be an extra cost , that cost shows an unfulfilled need .
16 The truth is that what Italians do well — live , survive and enjoy — Niki is not interested in , and what they do equally well — knife , subvert , rage , seduce , charm , infuriate , bureaucratize — are all things Niki can not stand .
17 The truth is that her life before marriage was not particularly interesting .
18 The truth is that I had never even met him . ’
19 The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’
20 The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one .
21 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 .
22 The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not .
23 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 . ’
24 The truth is that I 'm finding it damnably hard to confess to you what happened between Lotta and myself , and it 's vital that you know . ’
25 The truth is that I could n't believe it .
26 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 . ’
27 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 .
28 While Diana has been billed as the matchmaker in this royal romance , the truth is that she never noticed the romantic spark between her brother-in-law and one of her best friends .
29 The truth is that she envies me , ’ she went on more calmly .
30 The truth is that it is an exceedingly complex concept ; and nothing but confusion can arise from attempts to reduce it to curt labels and pat slogans .
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