Example sentences of "[is] [adv] true that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The solipsist admits no community to ground his belief that it is objectively true that this new sensation is a pain .
2 However , it is generally true that mainstream teachers do not have access to specialist knowledge beyond very generic special needs training .
3 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 .
4 During early 1990 $297m worth of securities were stolen from a City messenger and whilst a general alert went out should any unusual presentations for payment be made at maturity to minimise the risk of loss , it is nevertheless true that this kind of occurrence causes a certain difficulty due to the fact that invariably the instruments in question are bearer instruments .
5 Whilst one may argue that it would be wrong to attribute ego-functions to animals in which the id/ego differentiation was difficult to justify because their behaviour was largely under instinctual , preprogrammed control , it is nevertheless true that some mammals — and in particular some higher primates — do seem to show a plasticity of behaviour and an elaboration of activity which clearly point to the beginnings , however primitive , of ego-functions proper .
6 But it is still true that most members of the professions , accountancy , the law and banking , to whom people intending to start a business might turn for advice on how to constitute or finance it , will propose a company incorporated under the Companies Acts , or perhaps a partnership .
7 Although it is still true that most dollar eurobonds are held by non-US residents , US residents now form an important group .
8 It is further true that some degree of heritability has been indicated by twin and pedigree analysis , of varying degrees of sophistication and reliability , in virtually every measurable category of cognitive ability and personality trait thus far studied .
9 It is probably true that many decisions go away if you refuse to make them .
10 It is probably true that more of our population own caravans and boats than ever before .
11 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 .
12 It is also true that such high doses have no place in ordinary maintenance drug regimes .
13 It is also true that many older people , who were trained rigorously in the disciplines of study fashionable before 1960 , think that they know a great deal about language , but in fact imbibed many false notions from their schooling .
14 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 .
15 It is also true that many of the comments made about the usefulness of arithmetic do not address this central theme .
16 It is also true that most people would look fairly conventional , even today , when compared with de Sade .
17 It is also true that several novelists , such as Carpentier and Fuentes , delight in weaving elaborate , formal patterns .
18 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 .
19 It is also true that some dealers are likely to be far keener to sell diesels than others , perhaps reflecting how much faith they have in their products .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 It is also true that some of these institutions have been run in brutal and insensitive ways , particularly against children given refuge .
23 It is also true that British companies got more than 76% of the contracts stemming from official British loans and grants in 1989 .
24 It is perfectly true that modern factory-farming can sometimes be accused of engendering cruelty , waste , pollution and unsafe foods .
25 It is perfectly true that some of the things that I am saying today I have said before ; that is because they are true .
26 Now it is perfectly true that some families remained in the same district for hundreds of years .
27 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 .
28 If it can be claimed that the young men who spend a short time in a school before moving on provide the vitality , it is equally true that those who devote their whole lives to a single school give the continuity , tradition , and wisdom which are equally , if not more , important .
29 However , it is undoubtedly true that sexual abuse of children and young girls is very widespread .
30 That being said , it is undoubtedly true that more empirical research is required into the effects on teachers of the APU 's programmes of teacher training and dissemination .
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