Example sentences of "[adj] would be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be true , for instance , of the trading that took place in pre-colonial times between different tribes of Australian Aborigines , and there are many other examples . |
| 2 | This would be true no matter what lower priority objectives were involved . |
| 3 | Since this would be true whatever theory we were to select , it remains to ask what makes the works of Althusser and Poulantzas especially well-suited to our purposes . |
| 4 | This would be true whatever the particular circumstances which produced the feminist response . |
| 5 | This would be true , evidently , if consciousness consisted in behaviour . |
| 6 | This would be true if there are more purchases of dollars by risk-averse buyers in the forward market than sales by risk-averse sellers . |
| 7 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 8 | This would be true of Shakespeare himself and his audience . |
| 9 | The connection between the circumstance and the smell , on his view , is precisely the kind of connection , or want of connection , that would be true of real chance or real random events . |
| 10 | Yes , I would think that would be true , because I think the woman is more intelligent and more capable of coping |
| 11 | That would be true Christian charity of a kind that very few can bring themselves to practise . |
| 12 | The same would be true of resuscitation and any similar intervention . |
| 13 | But then the same would be true if you stayed in and watched Thelma & Louise instead and actually had a good time , would n't it ? |
| 14 | The same would be true to a lesser extent if I allowed and helped someone to write my life . |
| 15 | The same would be true of a general exclusion clause which excluded liability for economic loss , where , again , one would have to consider the issues as to reasonableness discussed above . |