Example sentences of "it be [adv] true that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also true that a company is judged by the people it keeps . |
| 2 | It is however true that a depreciation in share values will be of concern to management , because of possible repercussions in the market for corporate control . |
| 3 | Although such answers may not seem entirely convincing today , principally because of the insights which Darwin and Freud have given us into ourselves , it is nevertheless true that an approach to the problem based on evolution and psychoanalysis would yield analogous , if different , answers . |
| 4 | It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources . |
| 5 | Now it is certainly true that a complex whole necessarily contains relations of subordination and domination if the presence of principal and secondary contradictions within it is made into a defining characteristic . |
| 6 | It is certainly true that a State of Emergency was in effect for most of the period of hostilities , being lifted in January 1987 . |
| 7 | It is certainly true that a few generalisations can be made about the attitudinal functions of some components of intonation . |
| 8 | It is perfectly true that an ad is useless if no one notices it . |
| 9 | One can say ( he held ) that it is absolutely true that a certain characteristic always gives rise to the property of prima facie obligatoriness . |
| 10 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , cattle are enemies of grass in that it is still true that an individual grass plant would be better off not being eaten by a cow than being eaten , and any mutant plant that possessed , say , a chemical weapon that protected it against cows , would set more seed ( containing genetic instructions for making the chemical weapon ) than rival members of its own species that were more palatable to cows . |
| 12 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |