Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] [adv] true that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is generally true that increasing age exerts an unfavourable effect on outcome of diseases and medical interventions , this influence is weaker than is generally supposed and is mainly due to age-associated disorders . |
| 2 | Although it is usually true that if the interests of the covenantee and the covenantor are satisfied then so is the public interest , it is important to realise that in some cases the courts have chosen to examine the restraint primarily from the point of view of the public interest rather than from that of the parties . |
| 3 | Although it is certainly true that individuals can gain a false idea about the ease of making money on the Stock Market , there is also no doubt that privatisation has generated substantial interest in the Stock Market , much of it from new investors . |
| 4 | Although it is certainly true that papal levies were one spur to clerical refusals of the king , the clergy conducted a vigilant campaign to defend their rights and immunities with regard to taxation . |
| 5 | Although it is still true that most dollar eurobonds are held by non-US residents , US residents now form an important group . |
| 6 | Although it is undoubtedly true that Sartre et alia achieved a moral victory in 1947 by highlighting the purely imaginary and hence illusory nature of the accusations made against Nizan , and although Sartre 's own final fictional account of Nizan , narrated emotionally in " Drole d'amitie " , is a powerful antidote to the negative and hostile account in Aragon 's Les Communistes , nonetheless , from the moment of his death in 1940 until the moment of republication of Aden Arabic " in 1960 , Nizan remained an unwanted communist renegade . |
| 7 | Even some like-minded philosophers ( Mackie , 1974 , Ch. 2 ; Sanford , 1985 ) have been ready enough to take it that if c caused e in an ordinary situation then it is true , as we have it in ( 1 ) , that if c had n't occurred , neither would e , but they have omitted or denied what we now have in ( 3 ) , that it is also true that if or since c occurred , so did e . |
| 8 | The solipsist admits no community to ground his belief that it is objectively true that this new sensation is a pain . |
| 9 | They are such that it is merely true that they might happen or might have happened . |
| 10 | However , it is sadly the case that it is still true that there are er a number of landlords around who tend to control a lot of property , who er are charging er absurdly and unreasonably high rents in return for an appalling service . |
| 11 | One can say ( he held ) that it is absolutely true that a certain characteristic always gives rise to the property of prima facie obligatoriness . |
| 12 | ‘ Mr Larkin writes here that it is always true that the idea for a poem and a snatch or line of it come simultaneously . |
| 13 | So it is quite true that it is the father that is principally in focus ; but that does not necessarily mean that " mother " is only there by accident . |
| 14 | It is true , for instance , that God is good ; and it is also true that Julius Caesar invaded Britain . |
| 15 | Now it is totally true , that the start of that O C S contract was a disaster , and it is also true that several months on , the pay of the cleaners is still not being correctly done , and concerns are being raised in the governors , it 's a four years contract , being an L M S contract , and under G M S they are submitting one year contracts . |
| 16 | As for propinquity it seems that he included this mainly because his theory of value was closely linked with his theory of motivation , and it is psychologically true that we are more influenced by thoughts of the more immediate than the more remote future . |
| 17 | Nigel Newton explains this figure as a reflection of the ‘ very strong final quarter which Bloomsbury had that year , and in particular the strong December ’ ; and it is indeed true that trade publishers , whose sales are usually loaded towards the last quarter , generally have high debtors at year end . |
| 18 | And it is certainly true that , on previous form , the centre party has failed to extract any long-term benefit from recent occasions when it has held the balance of power . |
| 19 | TNC has been strongly attacked for taking a very narrow and old fashioned view of the curriculum as a collection of subjects ; and it is certainly true that the more sophisticated thinking of HMI on these matters appears to have been disregarded . |
| 20 | And it is certainly true that the surveying profession was outraged at the ‘ Flynn system , ’ as it was soon called . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But armed forces are not known for being bastions of sentiment and it is definitely true that had the SAAF really needed to replace both types , it would have found a way to do so . |
| 23 | But it is also true that warrants to the security services may be renewed for six months at a time . |
| 24 | It may be that some hereditary peers are well worth a place , but it is also true that some who are not hereditary peers are equally deserving and it is hard to argue that they should not be considered on their merits on the same basis , with life peerages being conferred on those most suitable . |
| 25 | But it is also true that having a bank account marks higher rather than lower socio-economic groups . |
| 26 | ‘ But it is also true that he is an old family friend . ’ |
| 27 | It may be true that concepts and factual propositions are subject to change and have no consequences until engaged by someone 's mind , but it is also true that some transmission of knowing does take place , and that a facility with , or mastery of , those concepts and propositions is necessary to further development . |
| 28 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 29 | We do not disagree that the financial health of the NHS requires attention , but it is also true that the NHS is caught in a gridlock of unevaluated and inefficient practice in which most major policy decisions are still left to individual clinicians ; this situation requires urgent attention . |
| 30 | This is in part due to the fact that the program has an extremely intuitive use interface but it is also true that the program is essentially quite simple . |