Example sentences of "is [adv] true that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One can say ( he held ) that it is absolutely true that a certain characteristic always gives rise to the property of prima facie obligatoriness . |
| 3 | It is absolutely true that a large number of people who could not remotely be described as rich would be hit by the proposal . |
| 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 few generalisations can be made about the attitudinal functions of some components of intonation . |