Example sentences of "true that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that cases of seditious words brought before the courts at the time of the disturbances show that disaffection was often expressed in terms of a belief in Stuart legitimism : in early 1715 , Londoner Phillip Hide cursed King George and said " he had no right to the Crowne of England " , whilst on 29 May 1715 , during the Jacobite demonstrations in London , John Burnoist was noticed to be wandering the streets shouting " James the third is right and Lawfull King of England " , the " protector of the protestant religion " , and " George is a Usurper to the Crown " . |
| 2 | Occasionally , they make unsubstantiated contentions : is it true that women in social work ‘ are not aware of and are uncomfortable with , the control part of the work ? |
| 3 | It is true that women in the main tend to be more lovingly affirming of each other , and use less competitive and down-putting styles of relating than men , but the problem is not only personal : it is embedded in all our social structures . |
| 4 | It is true that policy-makers in Washington often saw themselves as using financial inducements to compel the British to act as they desired . |
| 5 | But leaving dowry aside , how far is it true that payments of brideprice ( bridewealth ) from the husband 's kin to the wife 's kin always serve to " legitimize the children of the marriage " ) As usual the answer is not straightforward . |
| 6 | In contrast , Western whaling nations needed the whale oil , although it is true that products from coastal whaling in Europe included meat as early as the 11th century . |
| 7 | It is certainly true that they enact an awareness of the efficacy of penance which is at the very foundation of Christian spirituality ; but it also true that part of their potency depends on an understanding of the joy of " brennyng in loue ouur al thynge " when : The meditation on the Passion in Ego Dormio , on the other hand , engages directly with the experience of receiving such a gift . |
| 8 | It is true that knowledge of the probable origins of the meditations in a series of Anglo-Norman prayers points to the possibility that they have been freely adapted by various compilers who may or may not have included Rolle . |
| 9 | It is true that statistics on marriage are one thing , expectations of marriage another . |
| 10 | GLIDEWELL L.J. , having reviewed the authorities , concluding with Pao On v. Lau Yiu , continued : It is true that Pao On v. Lau Yiu is a case of a tripartite relationship , that is , a promise by A to perform a pre-existing contractual obligation owed to B , in retum for a promise of payment by C. But Lord Scarman 's words seem to me to be of general application , equally applicable to a promise made by one of the original two parties to a contract . |
| 11 | It is true that relief from the parish might be obtained in case of distress , but there would always be those whose pride would forbear them from applying for the pittance — at least they would avoid the humiliating and rigorous means test . |
| 12 | It is also true that studies of this kind tend only to highlight differences without revealing the qualitative nature of the differences . |
| 13 | Now it is true that Tit for Tat can not be invaded by any nasty strategy , but another nice strategy is a different matter . |
| 14 | It is true that removal of radiocaesium by clinoptilolite seems to be less effective than by bentonite or a hexacyanoferrate II but this may well be because a zeolitised tuff has been used ( 40–60 per cent zeolite content ) , or that the clinoptilolite used is potassium rich . |
| 15 | It 's true that recycling of plastics has n't yet reached the scale of paper or glass , but the label of environmental enemy is undeserved . |
| 16 | It is certainly true that pigeons with bar magnets attached to their heads navigate incorrectly on overcast , but not on sunny , days ( Figure 4.9 ) ; which suggests both that pigeons have a magnetic sense , and that it may be used by pigeons as a back-up compass sense when the sun is invisible . |
| 17 | It is true that players like Igor Shalimov , Aleksandr Mostovoy , Valery Shmarov and Vasily Kulkov have since moved to the west , but their 5-1 success away to Luxembourg 's Avenir Beggen this season shows Spartak can still threaten away from home . |
| 18 | It is not always true that deficiencies in service are to blame . |
| 19 | I was brought up in one myself , but it is true that girls on the whole do better in the subjects traditionally regarded as male subjects in single sex schools . |
| 20 | Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns . |
| 21 | And Alderson B. , in the same case , says , ‘ It is undoubtedly true that payment of a portion of a liquidated demand , in the same manner as the whole liquidated demand which ought to be paid , is payment only in part , because it is not one bargain , but two : viz. , payment of part , and an agreement without consideration to give up the residue . |
| 22 | It is true that Germany between the wars spawned industrial giants like IG Farben ( founded in 1925 ) , which had interests in metals , chemicals , coal , explosives , film , pharmaceuticals , armaments and synthetic fibres , and which with 120,000 workers , 50 subsidiaries and more than 100 factories was the world 's fourth largest industrial combine . |
| 23 | There will be similar trouble over the gender difference if indeed as I am suggesting — it is true that ideas about the meaning of maleness have distorted moral thinking in our culture quite deeply , so as to affect the whole concept of individuality , and thereby condition the way in which some central metaphysical issues are seen . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is indeed true that balance of payments deficits can be sustained for longer than they could a generation ago ; we would have never got this far without a much worse sterling crisis if that were not the case . |
| 26 | Though excessive concentration on these equations can be criticised ( since they are not , in many ways , typical of chaotic systems ) , it remains true that examples of nearly all the types of chaotic behaviour seen in other three-dimensional dissipative systems of differential equations can be found , for some parameter values , in the Lorenz system . |
| 27 | It is also true that speakers in all classes use more standard variants in formal than in casual speech ( this is known to sociolinguists as styleshift ) . |
| 28 | It is true that preoccupation with theoretical accounts of phenomena of all kinds is characteristic of German culture at least since the days of Leibnitz at the beginning of the eighteenth century , but in this instance there is a more specific reason . |
| 29 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 30 | It is true that productivity in manufacturing ( though not in the economy as a whole ) grew rapidly , though no faster than in the six-year periods ending 1969 or 1973 . |