Example sentences of "[pers pn] is true that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't need guests , you do n't need freezing weather or any other excuse to put pudding on the menu — although it is true that a good pudding shared with like-minded Billy Bunters makes for a convivial party , and if the day dawns cold and frosty it may give an agreeable edge to appetites . |
| 2 | It is true that a commitment was made to the ‘ progressive realisation of economic and monetary union ’ in 1972 , but the meaning of the phrase was never defined at that stage . |
| 3 | It is true that a lot of divers drink a fair quantity of beer . |
| 4 | It is true that a country does not need a nuclear power programme to be able to build a nuclear weapon . |
| 5 | It is true that a comparison of the generally accepted life-expectancy figures between the West and the Third World countries , or a comparison between ourselves and our grandparents ' generation , would show that modern Western man has a great advantage in average expectation of life . |
| 6 | It is true that a good marathon time shows that you have both fitness and endurance , but because of the effort you have made , you will not be able to exploit those gains for some time . |
| 7 | While it is impossible to either prove or disprove this estimate , as a matter of observation it is true that a high proportion of churches seem to attract ‘ their kind of people ’ . |
| 8 | While it is true that a sensitive adult will respond intuitively to a child 's language and make numerous adjustments to his or her own language in a way that will reflect the child 's strengths and weaknesses , it may nevertheless be helpful to make these explicit in a written assessment so that intuitions can be further re fined on the basis of objective information . |
| 9 | It is true that a number of books were written that attempted to draw parallels between brains and computers but these largely served to remind us how different they really are . |
| 10 | The requirements for military or test pilots place less emphasis on the number of flying hours required and this is compensated for by the more stringent type of flying they have been involved in ( though it is true that a large proportion of airline pilots learned to fly and served in military aviation before becoming civil pilots ) . |
| 11 | It is true that a considerable overlapping of insurance coverage has resulted from this basic arrangement . |
| 12 | As to the second criticism , it is true that a talking-head programme does n't provide visual clues as to content , but it does permit the language learner to watch as well as listen , to see lip movements and facial expressions and to see what the speaker looks like . |
| 13 | It is true that a military coalition of sorts has existed in Indo-China since the Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea and Laos . |
| 14 | It is true that a form of haematuria is called ‘ essential ’ , but I can not believe Eliot was referring to that , though I would not put it past him . |
| 15 | It is true that a substantial body of opinion in various parts of the world would have preferred to see whether relying on sanctions for longer would have brought about Iraq 's withdrawal . |
| 16 | Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened . |
| 17 | But while it is true that an economic or financial crisis will generally have a clear effect on a state 's coinage , the converse is not necessarily true : a debasement of the coinage does not in itself indicate a financial crisis , since it might take place for some other reason . |
| 18 | It is true that an inability to legislate upon certain matters might render a constitution prone to crisis but on others it would be far from necessarily fatal and at least one judge , in a common law country , has recently acceded to the proposition that he might be prepared to disavow the power of the otherwise unlimited New Zealand Parliament to enact law providing , for example , for human torture . |
| 19 | When it is true that an effect-the wine bottle 's being open-is my means , it is not such as an effect but as a cause of something else , which other thing is not a means to it . |
| 20 | It is true that an obvious field with high benefits and low risk would quickly get overcrowded , but if we generate a new concept there is no reason why the rewards should not be great and the risks low . |