Example sentences of "true that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that we have until now been concerned with consciousness , and used the term " mental events " in the ordinary way so as not to include all that may be included in the mental , the rest of the subject-matter of that domain is not thereby excluded from our coming reflections . |
| 2 | It is true that we live in an age when people are increasingly more likely to act on intuition , but many are still able to calculate when two and two add up to five . |
| 3 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 4 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 5 | It is also true that I disagreed with his choice of menu , but that is hardly cause for murder . ’ |
| 6 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |