Example sentences of "it is [adv] true say [conj] " in BNC.

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31 While the study of the language is critical to the development of BSL and its acceptance , it is also true to say that there is a more pressing problem in relation to BSL , at least in the eyes of deaf people , and that is how to learn and use it .
32 Even a writer such as Elizabeth Roberts , who has a very strong view of women 's sense of responsibility towards their relatives during this period , acknowledges that old people living with relatives but unable to contribute any longer to the household economy might well be ‘ neglected ’ or ‘ pushed into a corner ’ through force of circumstances : ‘ Although the duty to care for relatives was a paramount one , rarely ignored , it is also true to say that the quality of care varied from the dreadful to the superb ’ ( Roberts , 1984 , p. 179 ) .
33 It is also true to say that there was relatively less consensus about the precise relationship between causes and outcomes .
34 There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context .
35 Second , though before the enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the pattern of agriculture in this zone was basically a medieval one , it is also true to say that that in most of the rest of England was also medieval or even earlier in appearance .
36 It is also true to say that most of the traditional chalk downlands were divided into fields in the century after 1750 .
37 But it is also true to say that fashions in philanthropy change .
38 It is also true to say that if the Opposition parties were ever in a position to put their policies into effect , that self-employment record would inevitably be gravely harmed and the cause of women in particular would suffer much more .
39 Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue .
40 Then it is certainly true to say that unc is " up " and unc is either " up " or " down " .
41 It is therefore true to say that by the mid-1930s , the Labour Party was truly , as it had never been before , the party of the working class .
42 In some , but not all societies , it is therefore true to say that there are witches ; the same goes for subatomic particles ; there is no more ultimate sense in which things belong to reality .
43 Leaving such miscommunications aside , though , it is still true to say that we search for confirmation , and I have found myself reluctant to make the telephone call or write the letter of sympathy in case I have heard it wrongly or been given the wrong information .
44 Although much work has been done in the decades since those words were written , it is still true to say that many texts in printed form do not reflect the contents of the original manuscripts with complete accuracy , although more recent printed transcriptions tend to be reliable , not least because they have usually been scanned by a number of scholars before publication .
45 It is still true to say that many Continental philosophers would hardly be recognised as such by their English-speaking contemporaries .
46 It is still true to say that the law of sale of goods today is basically the common law , i.e. the law as stated over the years by judges in the process of deciding cases before them .
47 It is almost true to say that we know how the genetic program determines the shape of a ribosome .
48 Well as you know I think the committee looked at this erm in nineteen ninety one and er I think it is fairly true to say that by the time it was taken out of service blood hound did not represent a very high level of capability erm and the gap , there is a gap obviously between blood hound it 'll it 'll now be a rather longer gap between that and any A M S A M replacement , er but blood hound itself was judged to be frankly not worth having .
49 Whereas profiles were initially envisaged as a form of school-leaving report or record , and designed to fill a gap in the existing certification procedures , it is now true to say that many , if not the majority , of those involved in such developments place their highest priority on the changes such procedures will bring about within the educational process itself .
50 Perhaps , for the first time , it is now true to say that money does not automatically equal power .
51 Whilst the 1985 Act obliges us to ‘ afford access to our lands for the purposes of knowledge and enjoyment ’ , it is perhaps true to say that most visitors , possibly as many as 95% , make use of the Gardens as an amenity , and that we may have failed to emphasise the ‘ knowledge ’ goal .
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