Example sentences of "[conj] it [is] certainly true that " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 And it is certainly true that the surveying profession was outraged at the ‘ Flynn system , ’ as it was soon called .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It is not known whether or not he ever returned to visit his mother during the first few years but it is certainly true that , latterly , he was not back in the county for many years .
9 Such anthropomorphism would appear to be unjustified , but it is certainly true that association is most definitely a mental process , whether we are dealing with insects , crocodiles , birds , beasts or humans .
10 It is perhaps overstating the case to say that motorists can speed with impunity in residential areas , but it is certainly true that the limit is widely disregarded and rarely enforced .
11 But it is certainly true that there have never been a king and queen who are divorced .
12 But it is certainly true that many of the variables that have been studied do not show a clear effect of social constraints , and it seems reasonable to suggest ( cf.
13 And while it might be said that his version of pochvennost comes from this same source , and while it is certainly true that pochvennost deserves a longer footnote than the Petrine reforms , a footnote is all it should be .
14 While it is certainly true that the central core never issued a single agreed programme , a considerable degree of cohesion does emerge from an examination of their critical writings , and an impression of shared novelistic values is suggested by their willingness ( to a greater or lesser extent ) to appear on the same platform at conferences on several occasions and to accept , however grudgingly , the ‘ nouveau roman ’ appellation .
15 However , while it is certainly true that many housing units are occupied by both men and women , there are still some issues at stake here .
16 Whilst it is certainly true that behaviour is no substitute for knowledge , the way you behave is the biggest single factor in making an impact on the way other people respond to you .
17 Whilst it is certainly true that any process is better than none , awareness of all four aspects best equips people to deal with all eventualities .
18 In Malesia , they seem to have made use of the limestone caves for shelter and may well have forced the orang-utans of the region to live further up in the canopy , for it is certainly true that in the Pleistocene , the orang-utans were much more terrestrial in habit .
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