Example sentences of "true that [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That said , it is also true that each of these stories is self-contained and , like each of Palomar 's two or three-page reflections , suggests concentration .
2 It is of course true that each of the three elements in the circumstance as described was itself an effect of something else , and , further , had a whole causal history .
3 It is true that all of us human beings manage to cover up our God-likeness by all sorts of unkind and bad behaviour .
4 Even if it were true that all of consciousness and only that fell under statements of the three kinds , or related kinds , we would by means of this truth get only a wholly uninformative conception of consciousness .
5 ‘ Is it true that all of the people in there have vanished ? ’
6 It remains true that all of the major parameters of Course regulations and management remain today as they were established by David Mobbs ; all that has changed is the values given to certain parts of the equation .
7 It is true that one of the features of Japan and Germany is the intimate nexus between industry and political power , which gives some credence to this view .
8 It is of course true that one of the main purposes of distinguishing discrete senses is to have available a unit which can stand in relations such as synonymy and oppositeness .
9 Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up .
10 It is always salutary to question whether edicts are obeyed , and it is true that many of Charlemagne 's do not emphasize sanctions but assume a sense of shared moral responsibility throughout society .
11 It was indeed true that many of the camps of the Eighth and First Armies in French North Africa were unpleasant in the extreme ; a war-ravaged land in tropical summer heat , with all the squalor of collapsing French colonial administration , disease and boredom .
12 It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds .
13 It is true that many of the experiments in this area were grossly inadequate in method : they failed to ensure that the individuals they studied were similar , apart from the single factor being scrutinized ; they relied unduly on mothers ' memories for information about early events ; their various findings could not be compared because of disagreement about what should be counted as ‘ early weaning ’ or ‘ harsh training ’ , and so on .
14 While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day .
15 ( Mager I 962 47 ) In fact the definition of objectives and the evaluation of progress is something which as teachers we do all the tune ; it simply happens to be true that many of us do it very amateurishly and very half-heartedly , indeed we do it badly .
16 It is certainly true that many of the by-roads in an area such as this may well have been used in Roman times though it is difficult to prove .
17 But it is certainly true that many of the variables that have been studied do not show a clear effect of social constraints , and it seems reasonable to suggest ( cf.
18 It was certainly true that many of the older hospitals needed running down .
19 And , although it must be said that if the needs suggested by the report were met there would be many changes to existing reporting practices , it is also true that many of the needs rationalize the existing complexities of governmental accounting reports .
20 It is also true that many of the comments made about the usefulness of arithmetic do not address this central theme .
21 It was true that many of the unemployed willingly accePted Communist leadership of their demonstrations .
22 Moreover , it is not true that prior to the nineteenth century ( or eighteenth , depending on when the change was said to occur ) sexual deviance was conceptualized only as a form of behaviour .
23 It is true that most of the mystics rejected life and lived far from it , for the two worlds can never be mixed .
24 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 ) .
25 It is probably true that more of our population own caravans and boats than ever before .
26 If it is true that some of them are not quite what they were — and even this grasped-at straw is no more than speculation — we may rest assured that the successor generation brought on tour to breathe down their necks will be as good if not better .
27 It is true that some of these poorer working class families were moved into council houses but , as Orwell , M'Gonigle and others have noted , the high rents and rates tended to reduce their living standards and death rates remained high because of lack of income .
28 It was true that some of the team who were sent were among those who were most experienced in the use of the gifts of the Spirit , but others soon emerged to take their place in the mother church .
29 It is true that some of these people are recognised with honours .
30 The greater landowners would also employ other gentlemen servants in the management of their estates in the early eighteenth century , some of whom might be freeholders , and all of whom would have connections with the voting freeholders , and while it is true that some of these appointments were poorly paid , one has to bear in mind the comparative poverty of so many of the Scottish gentry in terms of money income .
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