Example sentences of "[det] [noun] can be misleading " in BNC.

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1 Some similarities can be misleading , because animals can superficially resemble one another that are not closely related in an evolutionary sense .
2 However , such statistics can be misleading .
3 The first half of 1988 showed an increase of that loss to £12m , but as Marsden points out , you need to take a yearly view of the business rather than a 6-month snapshot so such figures can be misleading .
4 But even these figures can be misleading in the same way as would a statistic relating risk of lung cancer as a percentage of all smokers .
5 A simple expression of the difference between left and right ears or visual fields for each subject can be misleading since the same difference in scores may be obtained by subjects who differ in their overall level of accuracy .
6 Both indices can be misleading when applied to real situations involving man or other homeotherms .
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