Example sentences of "[adv] true that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost literally true that she looked no older . |
| 2 | It is not true that they beat time without obeying it , since choruses [ at the Opéra ] are often sung perfectly . |
| 3 | Here , though it is not true that they have no food , for they still have their daily supplies of the ‘ worthless ’ manna , they remain without water , and , manna or no manna , death would seem to stare them in the face . |
| 4 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 5 | ‘ It is not true that we down-graded the level of security , I do n't know why the minister suggested that . |
| 6 | It 's not true that I saw no one while I was writing my book reviews in the printer 's office . |
| 7 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 8 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 9 | And it 's not true that I do n't get anything out of it when I see him . |
| 10 | It is not true that you have to burn before you tan . |
| 11 | It was probably true that he 'd asked him down to London . |
| 12 | It 's also true that we make moral and ethical judgements about women in particular who are overweight even |
| 13 | Then , since there is no believing without some doubting and since believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt , we can say as Christians that if we doubt in believing it is also true that we believe in doubting . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's true that you ca n't blame an animal for its nature , but it 's also true that they do a lot of harm . |
| 15 | It is also true that I disagreed with his choice of menu , but that is hardly cause for murder . ’ |
| 16 | or you could think it also true that I think wh what you think you 're supposed to like as well . |
| 17 | And was it also true that she saw only bad in Maisie 's boy ? |
| 18 | Erm and you 'd thi I mean , it 's also true that she did n't know many . |
| 19 | It is also an image which tells us that , it Gide 's contribution to the liberation of the subjugated was as a writer , it is also true that he exemplified the writer 's inevitably exploitative relation to the same , and that this exploitation persists as an aesthetic mode long after the blindness or impossibility of desire was acknowledged . |
| 20 | And is n't it also true that he kept fairly quiet about it ? ) Þingvellir is a curious place . |
| 21 | But it is also true that he describes this final state as one illumined so as " forto se by vnderstondyng whilk is god , and also gostly thynges with a soft swete brennand loue in hym " ( 8.282b. – 82 ) ; and in Mixed Life Rachel is also defined as " of bigynnynge is God , and bitokene liyf contemplatif " ( 30 – 1.342 – 3 ) . |
| 22 | It is also true that he accorded certain privileges to the Roman Church , as well as to other religious institutions . |
| 23 | This was so nearly true that she had the grace to feel slightly ashamed of herself . |
| 24 | They will not accept it as true that they murdered God , whereas we admit it and have been cleansed of that guilt . |
| 25 | It will be along the lines that it is quite as true that we have no satisfactory conception of anything much-including , most piquantly , the elements which enter into any alternative conception of the condition-set for an effect . |
| 26 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
| 27 | It was quite true that she had deserved that paediatric registrar post . |
| 28 | ‘ It is quite true that he had the pharmacist 's poodle bitch twice in fifteen minutes on the steps of the Convent of St Mary , but he has had almost every bitch in Porto Venus over the past three years . |
| 29 | Upon being asked why he shed tears , he replied , ‘ It is indeed true that I do not know a word of the Gita . |
| 30 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |