Example sentences of "[adv] be true [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it may not necessarily be true that absence makes the heart grow fonder , there 's no doubt that too much unaccustomed togetherness can put a marriage under strain . |
| 2 | It may perhaps be true that 79 per cent of trees cut down are cleared by people needing to plant food or gather fuel , and that , if there were fewer people , there would be less need . |
| 3 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 4 | We do not believe , certainly , that if the situation had been different , it would still be true that if the switch had not been flipped the wipers would not have started to work . |
| 5 | This is not to say that if the situation had been different then it would still be true that if all of either had not existed , then if the other had not , the effect would not have occurred . |
| 6 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 7 | Whether they arise as Turing proposed , or by some other physico-chemical process , it will always be true that they can be altered by changes in genes . |
| 8 | Do you think that it could ever be true that they would be sufficiently inexpensive that they could be used in most doctors ' surgeries , or is it going to be something which is only used in one or two important hospitals ? |
| 9 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 10 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 11 | It may also be true that ‘ ease of use ’ can influence the quality of work done and the effectiveness of a GIS as a decision support system . |
| 12 | It might also be true that an arrangement in which supplementary grants were made in the light of positive evaluation would be an effective incentive for schools to maintain momentum and involve themselves fully in inservice activities . |
| 13 | That is , it will be true , if there is no other causal circumstance for b on hand , and no alternative for a , that If B & C , even if X , still A. To speak informally , in terms of the example , the hot coffee together with other things guaranteed dissolved sugar , but it may also be true that the dissolved sugar , together with ( different ) other things , guaranteed the hot coffee . |
| 14 | It may also be true that some professional groups have had their independence and autonomy reduced . |
| 15 | It may also be true that social and market changes may " filter down " from the higher social classes ( such as the AB 's in the UK ) who are often first to perceive the need or desirability for a particular change . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it can also be true that previously-held prejudices can be reinforced . |
| 17 | Their professed need for a load valley in summer to permit overhaul could not be reconciled with the common observation that their capacity problems were not at their worst then ; it could not both be true that the differential charge would have no effect and that it would have so large an effect in cutting consumption the Boards would make losses . |
| 18 | The first criterion can be satisfied , of course , without its also being true that even if x ( any other event or condition or set of them ) had also occurred , then if we had not got cc we would not have got e . |
| 19 | And it also is true that the cost is different . |
| 20 | The easy explanation points to the personality of Mr Kinnock — and it probably is true that the Labour leader 's worthiness and lack of grasp of detail probably did damage the Labour cause . |
| 21 | One does not wish to appear in the role of kill-joy or pedant , but it really is true that these things lose their value enormously when they are used too much . |
| 22 | It really is true that everything seems bigger and sometimes brasher over here . |
| 23 | It may well be true that there is little evidence of a widespread parochial anti-clericalism in the early sixteenth century , if by that we mean an endemic lay hostility towards the local priesthood . |
| 24 | It may well be true that Black people are inspired by the memory of their courage under slavery . |
| 25 | On the one hand , it may well be true that neither option two nor option four entail direct substitution of judgment by the court . |
| 26 | Whatever the merits of these reasons , and not all of them carry complete conviction , it must surely be true that no government , given that the enormous and growing cost of higher education was coming very largely out of public funds , would have been prepared for provision to have been largely concentrated in the ‘ autonomous ’ university sector ? |
| 27 | At the very least , it must surely be true that it is better to have NAB then no body at all ? |
| 28 | If it is not obvious , as remarked before , it surely is true that the nature of causal circumstances and causes , as against effects , is , at least in good part , explained by what we have already-it is explained in good part by the fact that causal circumstances necessitate effects , and effects merely necessitate one causal circumstance or another . |
| 29 | Some satisfaction , let it be conceded ; and it will certainly be true that most voters will find that a candidate for whom they have expressed some preference will have been elected . |
| 30 | However , it will certainly be true that it is optimal for a risk-neutral party to take all risk from a risk-averse party ( try A or B bargaining with C ) and it would seem sensible that a more risk-averse party should optimally take on less of the risk than a less risk-averse one . |