Example sentences of "truth [be] [that] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The awkward truth is that no power on earth could ease the torment of some Vietnam veterans . |
| 2 | The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find — dismaying though that may be for party propagandists . |
| 3 | The agricultural experts pushing crop substitution programmes may congratulate themselves on Pakistan 's declining opium output , but the truth is that the country is now specialising more in processing and marketing . |
| 4 | The fundamental psychological truth is that the parent — be it mother or father — is both loved and hated . |
| 5 | Of course , the truth is that the prompt has been set to PROMPT Choose an option 1–8 |
| 6 | Yet the truth is that the board of directors will only very rarely be involved in the day-to-day running of the company which is instead usually entrusted to the officers and executives of the company . |
| 7 | As a Usenet writer , Peter Wayner , argued , ‘ the sad truth is that the bill will hardly deter criminals . |
| 8 | The truth is that the bubble has burst . |
| 9 | For all Mellor 's protestations that the tabloids brought him down in an attempt to dictate to the Prime Minister who should be in his Cabinet , the truth is that the Heritage Secretary was rejected by his peers . |
| 10 | ‘ The truth is that the station was meeting its obligation to cover the views of representatives of legal opposition parties , as well as of the families of military officials detained after the coup attempt , ’ said Mauricio Brunner , Coordinator of Centro Guarura . |
| 11 | The truth is that the government may have had little choice but to move against the PAC . |
| 12 | ‘ But the truth is that the threat is here on our own doorstep as well . |
| 13 | The truth is that the health authorities and the social services department engaged in different types of service development , in different contexts , with different resources and with different outcomes — even though a surprisingly uniform ideal of community care was upheld at the local level throughout the service systems . |
| 14 | The truth is that the youth training guarantee is not being delivered by Devon training and enterprise council . |
| 15 | But the truth is that the game at this level is as feudal in its structure as any mediaeval polity . |
| 16 | The truth is that the party leadership , in contradiction to its own declarations , is ridding itself of the democratic wing of the party and is preparing for social revenge and for a party and state coup . " |
| 17 | But the behind-the-scenes truth is that the cast and crew rarely went further than their own back yard . |
| 18 | We might kid ourselves that the world ‘ out there ’ creates our problems , but the truth is that the source of all our suffering is the Ego . |
| 19 | The stark truth is that the unemployment figure is still a national scandal . ’ |
| 20 | But the truth is that the extent of family influence or other environmental factors is unclear . |
| 21 | She might have stayed , and the truth was that the possibility of staying had not occurred to her . |
| 22 | The Leader of the Opposition said in his letter to supporters at the beginning of this year that Britain had a £20 billion trade deficit , when the truth was that the deficit fell by a half and the right hon. Gentleman 's figures were wholly wrong . |
| 23 | Henry Mcleish , Labour 's Scottish employment spokesman , said the truth was that the unemployment figures were a national scandal . |
| 24 | The truth was that the controversy was symbolic of mutual suspicion and acrimony between the Russians and the Americans exacerbated by the consuming tensions of Korean politics . |
| 25 | ( The mundane truth was that the delivery boy had forgotten it , but the correction did not circulate as efficiently as the rumour . ) |