Example sentences of "truth [be] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 2 | But the truth is that they just wake up . |
| 3 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 4 | ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . ) |
| 5 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 6 | The truth is that they were n't built as embankments , but the drained marshes have shrunk , while the ballasted railway has retained its original dimensions . |
| 7 | I think they ought to much more than they do , but the plain truth is that they do n't . |
| 8 | But the plain truth is that we can not say what was really done for the children or what the results were . |
| 9 | The truth is that we are now condemned to live with a dual consciousness . |
| 10 | ‘ The truth is that we get hammered because we are the sport trying to clean up our act and , therefore , our work becomes high profile . |
| 11 | The truth is that we do not even know what our ancestors actually looked like . |
| 12 | The simple truth is that we have both bowled extremely professionally throughout the last series against England . |
| 13 | The truth is that we are both trainee Eddie Charltons : slow , grim , defensive and almost joyless . |
| 14 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 15 | ‘ But the truth is that we were never engaged , so she never broke off the engagement , you see . ’ |
| 16 | The truth is that we are dealing not with one-off exceptional cases of hardship , affecting only a small minority of students , but with a widespread and damaging problem affecting thousands of students . |
| 17 | The use of girls above ground increased after 1815 , but the truth is that we really know very little of the actual numbers of women working in mines . |
| 18 | The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal . |
| 19 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 20 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 21 | The truth is that I was suffering from insomnia : a full stomach is more conducive to sleep than is an empty one . |
| 22 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 23 | The truth is that I could no longer tell whether I was cold or not , hungry or not . |
| 24 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 25 | The truth is that I 'm finding it damnably hard to confess to you what happened between Lotta and myself , and it 's vital that you know . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The truth is that I could n't believe it . |
| 27 | The truth is that I have this slight problem with my jaw It gets sort of locked sometimes and I think in that picture I must have been trying to loosen it up . ’ |
| 28 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 29 | It is obviously more convenient to blame the situation and especially other people for the way you react but the truth is that you , and you alone , are responsible for your behaviour . |
| 30 | Whatever the realities of Shirli-Ann 's situation , the broader truth is that she is not alone . |