Example sentences of "true that [det] [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 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 .
8 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 .
9 It is true that many of these creatures are aware of ordinary physical sensations beyond our human thresholds .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ( 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 .
13 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 .
14 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.
15 It was certainly true that many of the older hospitals needed running down .
16 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 .
17 It is also true that many of the comments made about the usefulness of arithmetic do not address this central theme .
18 It was true that many of the unemployed willingly accePted Communist leadership of their demonstrations .
19 It is true that most of the mystics rejected life and lived far from it , for the two worlds can never be mixed .
20 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 ) .
21 It is probably true that more of our population own caravans and boats than ever before .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 It is true that some of these people are recognised with honours .
26 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 .
27 It is certainly true that some of the processes associated with standardization ( on which see Haugen , 1972 ; Leith , 1980 ; J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1985a ) were well under way around 1600 ( elaboration of function , use of a supra-regional writing system ) , but it looks as if some of them were still at the stage of being localized developments associated with the establishment of consensus on local norms , and this applies particularly to pronunciation , which is the level of language that is least uniform .
28 It is also true that some of these institutions have been run in brutal and insensitive ways , particularly against children given refuge .
29 It is perfectly true that some of the things that I am saying today I have said before ; that is because they are true .
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