Example sentences of "true that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | It is true that over much of Europe military administration at its highest level was still largely in the hands of civilians . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is true that with increased years the incidence of multiple pathology increases . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is true that on first arriving at the scene of the crime the detective may have no pre-conceived ideas . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was true that at this altitude — where crops could be grown but only with constant attention — people were slaves to their land . |
| 11 | Is it perhaps true that for many of the English , poetry has never been anything else but a superior parlour game ? |
| 12 | To answer the initial question first , it is certainly true that for ascriptive adjectives at least , with adjective and noun held constant , alternation between qualification and assignment can produce no difference in either the entity identified or the pattern of assignment of properties . |
| 13 | It is true that before 1979 the marginal rates of income tax on the very rich were high ( marginal tax rates are the percentage of the last pound earned taken in tax ) . |
| 14 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 15 | It is certainly true that in many cases warts will regress and even disappear without any treatment , but it is unclear why this should happen and there is no way of predicting which sufferers will be able to rid themselves of the warts or how to stimulate the body 's defence to that end . |
| 16 | It is of course true that in many cases it will be stated that the nave is , for example , twelfth-century , the chancel fifteenth ( with nineteenth-century restorations ) , the north chapel twentieth , and so on , but it will not record the stained glass now gone or the wall monuments which have decayed ( or , obviously , the changes wrought since the booklet was written ) . |
| 17 | But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern . |
| 18 | Moreover it is true that in one or two specific minor ways the express tried positively to limit serfdom — by ordering in 1781 that war prisoners were in future to become free men if they were converted to Orthodoxy ; and by reducing the possibilities which had hitherto existed of enserfment by marriage . |
| 19 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 20 | While it is true that in recent decades it has been made more , rather than less , difficult for elected assemblies to exercise control over public expenditure ( Robinson 1978 ) , it is equally true that political controllers are not completely starved of information about bureaucratic activities . |
| 21 | Erm , it 's true that in general we do have different memories than other people do er but it does n't seem to be fully individuating in that any change in the contents of the memory would produce a change in . |
| 22 | ‘ It is certainly true that in Western Ireland today you will hear those who say that in his teens William Joyce was a traitor who betrayed his own people to the Black and Tans . ’ |
| 23 | It is true that in such discussions the judgemental element does not exist in isolation , since it is interwoven with description , technical assessment of moves in play , and so forth , in ways suggested in Wittgenstein 's lectures on aesthetics . |
| 24 | It was true that in such a solitary place anyone within a dozen miles must have heard him . |
| 25 | Even in these recession-ridden times , it is true that in most households , expenditure on the needs of children is protected to a greater degree than those of adults , and , in most cases , right across the social spectrum , books command a positive attitude from parents , where they ; are seen as linking directly with a future passport for career success . |
| 26 | It is probably true that in most online catalogue searching both recall and precision are much lower than that which a good intermediary would obtain in reference retrieval searching . |
| 27 | It is true that in some cases these publications may be of extreme radical tendency , attacking the established practices of academic English teaching , but that is no objection , since it is the fact of publication that counts , not its content . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It is true that in some respects the two institutions were assimilated , but enough has been said to indicate that the most fundamental disparities , in structure and in procedure , remained unchanged . |
| 30 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |