Example sentences of "it is [adv] [adv] true that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It is simply not true that all Spanish colonialists were brutal , arrogant exploiters of the indigenous peoples ; there was a great deal of theological questioning and guilt and struggle around this issue , as the lives of such men as Bartolomé de las Casas makes clear . ) |
| 2 | It is simply not true that the mind is , as traditional empiricists used to suppose , a tabula rasa or blank tablet on which experience writes . |
| 3 | It is simply not true that those needs correlate with high spending local authorities . |
| 4 | It is most certainly true that Kenyans must decide their own future , but in this case the Kenyan president has taken a decision which does not serve his people well . |
| 5 | Sadly it is no longer true that the present day pattern of fields is much the same as that shown on enclosure maps . |
| 6 | Of course , this view is based on a foolish misapprehension ; but it is probably nevertheless true that a mistaken view of psychoanalysis , and a misuse of its teachings , has contributed in no small part to our present social predicament . |
| 7 | Social circumstances have changed since 1975 , but it is probably still true that many women are out of the employment market in their 20s and early 30s due to family commitments so that if the facts happened again , the result may well be the same . |
| 8 | It is also probably true that the more specialized the catalogue the more likely it is to be used for selection — for instance , the catalogues of local publishers , those of specialized formats ( e. g. microforms , large print books ) , or those in subject fields which are dominated by the work of one or two publishers . |
| 9 | It is not stated but it is also probably true that the greater is the haste for union the greater will be the potential dislocation . |
| 10 | It is also generally true that the risk-free rate exceeds the rate of dividends on the market index ( d ) . |
| 11 | While it may be true that the highest socioeconomic group uses nothing but Standard English , it is certainly not true that the lowest group uses only Creole , and that the middle classes are those who tend |
| 12 | It will be along the lines that it is quite as true that we have no satisfactory conception of anything much-including , most piquantly , the elements which enter into any alternative conception of the condition-set for an effect . |
| 13 | Although ‘ the growing relevance of social work research to daily practice ’ may be one of the ‘ most significant of the changes to face social workers and agencies in recent years ’ ( David Jones , General Secretary , British Association of Social Workers ) it is still regrettably true that knowledge and use of research findings in policy and practice are relatively uncommon , and rarely a regular part of routine thinking and planning . |
| 14 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 15 | Environmental determinists are also numerous among the social commentators of the period : ‘ Wretched houses make wretched homes ; and while immoral or slatternly habits convert fine dwellings into styes , it is almost as true that dirty and unhealthy habitations transfer a taint to the character and habits of the persons who occupy them . ’ |
| 16 | Furthermore , it is almost certainly true that the great majority of the English laity did not share the intellectuals ' and higher clergy 's attachment to the doctrine of predestination , but retained instead a residual loyalty to the idea that all could potentially achieve salvation . |
| 17 | However , " it is almost certainly true that JC is a separate or at least separable language from English , as an abstract system , as a psychological reality to its speakers , and even as an actual spoken variety . " |