Example sentences of "true that in " in BNC.

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1 But it is certainly true that in the last sixty years the various schools and academies of acting have had a significant effect on the climate of acting .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 It remains true that in Tate 's criticism and since ( for no advance has been made in this quarter ) ‘ rhythm ’ and ‘ movement ’ are wholly impressionistic — you hear what the critic is talking about , or else you do n't .
5 It is true that in later times particular questions arising in a case before him , suitable for trial by jury , are sometimes directed by the Chancellor to be so tried .
6 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 .
7 It is undoubtedly true that in this period when new political lordships and principalities were replacing the Carolingian empire , and Europe was recovering from external attacks , the church was far more an upholder than a hammer of kings and other rulers .
8 Again , we do not have room to delve into the fascinating area of population changes , but it is clearly true that in the Western world there is an older and ageing population that is radically altering the shape of the population curve .
9 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 .
10 It is true that in Britain the matter is now regulated by statute and to that extent it has been flushed into the open .
11 It is true that in film the ‘ image ’ , however symbolically intended or perceived , is always ‘ literalised ’ by the medium itself .
12 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 ) .
13 It was true that in the 1880s youth work had meant philanthropy and religion , whereas in the 1900s it was felt to be the responsibility of local education authorities , juvenile employment committees , after-care committees and part-time day continuation classes in liberal and vocational studies .
14 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 .
15 It also seems to be roughly true that in domestic breeds of sheep the horns are more tightly coiled — they display greater torsion — whereas in the wild the horns of many antelopes are long , straight , extended twists .
16 It is also true that in the late 1970s and early 1980s unemployed school-leavers have become a longer-term and therefore more serious problem .
17 But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern .
18 It was true that in such a solitary place anyone within a dozen miles must have heard him .
19 With binoculars the chances are obviously much less , but one never knows — and it is true that in 1885 a supernova blazed out in the Andromeda Spiral and almost reached naked-eye visibility .
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 It is true that in the late 1430s the English suffered some reverses and territorial losses .
22 It is indeed true that in word-pairs the B-word is often less frequently attested , more poetic , more esoteric than the A word .
23 Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events .
24 It is true that in grammar some linguistic choices may be designated " unmarked " and " neutral " in contrast to others : for example , the choice of third-person pronouns ( he , she , they , etc ) may be regarded as neutral in narration as compared with I and you .
25 It is true that in 1914 most Russian workers still had rural ties and very often owned land .
26 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 .
27 It is true that in rejecting the [ applicants ' ] daughters they referred to and relied upon their admission criteria but in my judgment they were entitled to use those criteria to decide priorities pursuant to section 6(3) ( a ) .
28 ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak .
29 It is true that in Dudley and Stephens the jury found that the boy was in a much weaker condition than the others and was likely to have died before them .
30 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 .
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