Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] true that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a necessary condition for such knowledge , 3 ( that if it were not true that you are not a brain in a vat , you would not believe that you are not a brain in a vat ) fails . |
| 2 | The MMC pointed out that the block exemption only applied if there were no effective competition , no refusal to supply , or if it were not true that less favourable conditions were imposed on those with an exclusive purchasing obligation . |
| 3 | It 's not true that girls dress up to impress men , or ‘ catch ’ a boyfriend , because I think girls know that the people who will most appreciate their particular look or style , or the fabric or colour in their outfit , will be their friends . |
| 4 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 5 | However it 's not true that their life is all a deceit . |
| 6 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 7 | There is no need to postulate different negative elements , or different meanings of like : it is enough to allow the negative element either to take the whole of the rest of the sentence as its scope ( Neg ( I like him ) ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ It 's not true that I like him , ’ or the single element like ( I Neg-like him ) , in which case the meaning will be ‘ I dislike him . ’ ’ |
| 8 | It 's not true that I saw no one while I was writing my book reviews in the printer 's office . |
| 9 | And it 's not true that I do n't get anything out of it when I see him . |
| 10 | But although he took this very stiff line about theism and organized religion , it 's not true that Russell himself was void of religious feelings and interests . |
| 11 | For while it 's true to say that opposites attract , it 's also true that the attraction wears very thin when intense non-stop aggravation takes over . |
| 12 | It 's also true that we make moral and ethical judgements about women in particular who are overweight even |
| 13 | It 's also true that a company is judged by the people it keeps . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's true that you ca n't blame an animal for its nature , but it 's also true that they do a lot of harm . |
| 15 | Erm and you 'd thi I mean , it 's also true that she did n't know many . |
| 16 | It 's quite true that er wheels from subsidiaries in Dagenham and bodies would be on the road inside two hours of having left another factory because they were on the same industrial site . |
| 17 | So erm , it 's quite true that Bullett had a personal axe to grind , I think it was a rather justified axe . |
| 18 | Obviously , as erm I am in fact the local member referred to in er in the reports and erm it 's quite true that erm , it 's rare with some of these erm parking proposals that you get so much positive response from the residents but this has been very evident . |
| 19 | No , I , I , I , just , just a cover note , I think it 's quite true that this is one of the small steps one can make to make it a little bit more possible for people with dependents to take a full part in local government , and the majority of the people who are excluded at the moment are in practise erm , women with dependent children , but there are many other people including men , and including people with dependent elderly relatives , and I think we need to make it the rule rather than the exception that local government has a carer 's allowance scheme . |
| 20 | They are self selecting , and what we 've got to puncture is not the erm idea that the best goes forward , which is what you 're suggesting , erm but the idea of this self-selecting bit , it 's quite true that it tends to be men who put themselves forward for selection and election , and women do n't . |
| 21 | It 's been said before , but it 's perfectly true that Scorpio is the most enigmatic and least understood of all the zodiac signs . |
| 22 | It 's perfectly true that the front garden policy on the assets has been stated by Thamesdown Borough Council they do n't want to sell it . |
| 23 | M M My Lords , erm on the second point my Noble Friend makes , that 's absolutely true and it really was again quite depressing to see that erm er a member in in in the and the other place Mr Don Foster on behalf of the Liberals , had actually written to every single Chief Education Officer er concerning anti er concerning campaigning against er the opting out policy , as to the other point my Noble Friend makes , it 's absolutely true that erm all the service that have been done and there 's one very recently reported , that the amount of value for money o obtained for every single grant maintained school outstrips the L E A maintained schools . |
| 24 | It 's certainly true that the pressure on you builds up as the terms go on — but training is not designed to destroy you , but to challenge you . |
| 25 | It 's certainly true that drugs are assumed to have a special , morbid logic of their own , rather than to be aspecific case of general patterns of human behaviour . |
| 26 | Well it 's certainly true that there were ideological differences but whether those were the reason for the split or not is a er is a , is a moot question and I suspect not . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's certainly true that if people suggest they will go to the appeal procedure then we will do almost everything we can to avoid that , which means in some cases we 're letting people get away with something that you would n't let others get away with , simply because they 're being difficult — well , not being difficult , they would be just exercising their rights . ’ |
| 28 | It 's certainly true that er the big regional firms now do a lot of corporate work . |
| 29 | Erm , it 's certainly true that we reduced the total size of a particular team or unit dealing with international affairs , but only on the grounds that we actually felt that it was very important that all the teams should be working on international and European dimensions of their work , rather than seeing it as compartmentalised in one area . |
| 30 | It 's certainly true that the methods of treatment that we use in miocenia gravis at the moment are not specific . |