Example sentences of "[modal v] be true [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , for spiritual recovery to have the best opportunity for development , it must be true that sufferers from any form of addictive disease would ultimately be best advised to avoid all substances and behaviours that may have an inappropriate mood-altering effect . |
| 3 | It might be true that Rose was the father . |
| 4 | This is so even though it might be true that any infant , regardless of race or family niche , can acquire the tongue of any community . |
| 5 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 6 | It may be true that the processes of change and of translating policy into practice are convoluted and very hard to manage . |
| 7 | Of course , it may be true that bream only rarely suck from as much as nine inches distance , but I always allow that much on the assumption that they do . |
| 8 | It may be true that under the ERA LEAs have lost an entire empire and not yet found a role . |
| 9 | It may be true that ‘ desire ’ is , as closely as human words can state , synonymous with life . |
| 10 | It may be true that the life we destroy is in the main of the lower orders or minute forms , but it is none the less destruction of life for all that , and since ahi sā involves doing no injury to any form of life , it follows that no matter how careful and compassionate and self-restrained a person may be he can not entirely escape committing hi sā . |
| 11 | It may be true that Satan and the demons plot against the church in hellish councils , but we do not really know . |
| 12 | It may be true that we still believe in the resurrection , but we seem to forget that we must first experience death . |
| 13 | While it may be true that we Christians are living in our separate and little private worlds , this is not to say that nothing significant is happening . |
| 14 | While it may be true that , in speaking , children frequently express in words underlying conceptual distinctions , a number of researchers have suggested that the ability to use language to communicate needs , interests and desires to other people presupposes another , rather different , set of developmental abilities . |
| 15 | First , although it may be true that functional explanations of the kind he discusses remain incomplete until we understand the mechanisms which sustain them , they may nevertheless be explanatory . |
| 16 | And although it may be true that readers of Hot Press for example , are n't led by sexual ignorance into seeing man and woman only as adversaries , there also are those girls who are forced to go to England all the time for abortions and they ca n't be that far from the world I depict . |
| 17 | It may be true that ‘ an uncompromised normal fetus may not be harmed by intense maternal exercise in the first and second trimesters ’ . |
| 18 | It may be true that some dictionaries are more suitable for language processing than others , but such distinctions should not be based on size alone . |
| 19 | It may be true that concepts and factual propositions are subject to change and have no consequences until engaged by someone 's mind , but it is also true that some transmission of knowing does take place , and that a facility with , or mastery of , those concepts and propositions is necessary to further development . |
| 20 | It may be true that the story of the English people is best seen in English literature , but English literature contains much more than the story of the English people . |
| 21 | It may be true that people put themselves forward for managerial posts in public industry because they have a genuine desire to improve social welfare ( though they dislike effort ) . |
| 22 | It may be true that there was a single ‘ act ’ or ‘ neglect ’ but , if so , that was the negligent manufacture and not the subsequent sale of the machine . |
| 23 | Indeed , it may be true that most of the great floodplains of the world have been formed by aggradation provoked by the Post-glacial rise in sea level and not by the erosional method outlined in the discussion of the Davisian cycle ( Chapter 2 ) . |
| 24 | Yet although it may be true that many types and styles of kung fu began here , it can not be realistically argued that all the varieties of kung fu that were and are still practised in China have their roots in Shaolin . |
| 25 | Firstly , while it may be true that individual clients can and do terminate contracts frequently , they do this to move from one company to another : every year each company loses existing but gains new customers . |
| 26 | Further , even if it may be true that characteristic adjectives are never barred from prenominal occurrence , there are certainly instances where occasion adjectives are ungrammatical in postnominal position , as in : ( 30 ) Eddy will present the cheque to the winner happy we have yet to overcome this obstacle immediate Thus , Bolinger 's distinction between " characteristic " use and " occasion " use is neither necessary nor sufficient for postnominal occurrence , even if it overlaps to an interesting extent with the difference in position of the adjective . |
| 27 | It may be true that democracy , though a virtuous and desirable political form , is always under threat and incomplete in certain respects . |
| 28 | 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 |