Example sentences of "be true that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be true that under the ERA LEAs have lost an entire empire and not yet found a role . |
| 2 | However , on the second , more rigorist , view , her action would turn out to be wrong , should it be true that with even more effort she could have relieved still more suffering , or caused just a little more happiness ( without countervailing harm ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern . |
| 5 | It is true that to the shame of all the factions the grand question of the continued independence of the Realm itself is not being presented as an issue . |
| 6 | It is true that since 1982 allowance has been made for inflation — indexation — when calculating capital gains generally ( and gains made before 1982 are no longer eligible for any tax ) . |
| 7 | It is true that between 1980/81 and 1988/89 expenditure on education in real terms increased by 7.4 per cent but this compares unfavourably with defence and law and order . |
| 8 | It is true that over the years a few railway signalmen have been convicted of manslaughter for wrongful acts and omissions leading to fatal train crashes , but there is not the natural resort to the criminal law which is now a feature of road-traffic cases . |
| 9 | It is true that over a decade when the senior civil service was moving from being primarily regulatory in outlook to being primarily managerial , there was a lack of research , of assessment of situations before action could be properly planned . |
| 10 | It is true that over much of Europe military administration at its highest level was still largely in the hands of civilians . |
| 11 | It is true that despite her natural handicaps and the overriding barrier to mobility and enterprise represented by serfdom , Russia 's non-agricultural economy did expand substantially in the period . |
| 12 | It is true that despite close attention from numerous scientists around the world for the past 60 years , soil erosion is now perhaps more widespread than ever before . |
| 13 | Of course , it is true that outside the small clearing of what we know lies the unexplored forest of what we do not know . |
| 14 | It is true that on one occasion , when asked if Gandhi had not been tiresome , he replied that ‘ Some people found Our Lord very tiresome ’ ; but in the context of general unsympathy it is difficult to know what to make of this very Irwinian rebuke . |
| 15 | It is true that on the embryonic Budapest Stock Exchange only 10 ( ten ! ) shares were quoted on May 1991 , and the number of deals on the day were only 280 . |
| 16 | It is true that on first arriving at the scene of the crime the detective may have no pre-conceived ideas . |
| 17 | It is true that on the one hand the Vice-Chancellor defined the purpose of section 236 in terms which suggest such a limitation , as Hoffmann J. thought , at p. 102 : |
| 18 | It is true that on their horses and with their arms they looked well at a review ; but they knew nothing of war . ’ |
| 19 | It is true that on defence Labour can not be trusted . |
| 20 | It is true that on other parts of the A fifty nine system , particularly through Knaresborough , er the new road the outer northern bypass could take closer to thirty percent off the existing A fifty nine , but the traffic flows on that part of the A fifty nine are very much lower , so there is much less need , much less environmental need for a bypass there er a relief road I should say , there in the first place . |
| 21 | It is true that at a rehearsal where the eye has nothing to engage it , a recitative immediately becomes boring ; but at the performance , where between the stage and the audience there are so many objects to entertain the eye , a recitative like this is over before the listeners are aware of it . |
| 22 | It is true that at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in April — May 1946 Byrnes seemed unusually eager to exchange views and to talk in broad terms of how Soviet influence in the Middle East and elsewhere might be resisted . |
| 23 | It is true that at a Personnel Committee meeting I stated that the council had always honoured industrial tribunal decisions in the past . |
| 24 | It is true that with increased years the incidence of multiple pathology increases . |
| 25 | While it is true that without the transport sector 's contribution , the overall rate of investment in the economy would not have exceeded 10 per cent of national income by 1815 , concentration on such macro-economic data tends to obscure the fact that the financing of improvements in transport was above all an example of regional capital formation . |
| 26 | It is true that during Margaret Thatcher 's tenure of the Conservative leadership the social basis of the Conservative parliamentary party , the nature of its constituency , and the conflicting philosophies of the ‘ new ’ and ‘ old ’ right provided the subject matter for a wealth of publications . |
| 27 | It is true that during the 1991/92 presidential year a certain amount of friction occurred between Moorgate Place and the district societies , but it should be made clear that this was almost entirely due to the funding problems and not because of any breakdown in the relationship between the national president and the district society presidents . |
| 28 | It is true that during bouts of acute psychotic illness — or as an accumulating effect of several episodes — there may be impaired social and intellectual functioning , but this has more the appearance of a secondary consequence and , in any case , is by no means seen in all individuals . |
| 29 | It is true that during the passage of the Bill , section 10 was explained as being intended to reflect the position at common law , in which there is respectable authority for the proposition that the client 's legal privilege can not attach to communications made with criminal intent . |
| 30 | It is true that during the match the Linfield fans created trouble , but it was among themselves by throwing bottles at each other . |