Example sentences of "it to be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |
| 2 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 3 | Geometrical demonstrations which prove something to be true of all triangles do not do so by proving it to be true of an abstract triangle to which all triangles correspond . |
| 4 | I 'd written that , and knew it to be true . |
| 5 | ‘ The People ’ , endearingly , believe it to be true . |
| 6 | But I also believe it to be true . |
| 7 | ‘ I should like it to be true . ’ |
| 8 | Did her excitement at the way the evidence fitted together mean she wanted it to be true ? |
| 9 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 10 | But I believe it to be true that in many corners of Christendom spiritual warfare is no longer a central concern . |
| 11 | And although such an eventuality was beyond my imagination ( like trying to envisage infinity ) and utterly unacceptable to me , I still knew it to be true . |
| 12 | If I had admitted to being cold , I should also have had to admit that I was hungry , and this was something I was incapable of doing — if only because I did n't believe it to be true . |
| 13 | But the reason for the discussion was that recently , he had found it to be true . |
| 14 | Montano reacts to this inversion of the truth with the correct response ( assuming it to be true ) which Iago has elicited from him , namely that Othello ought to be told ; at which point Iago demurs , with the pretence of friendship : From that declaration , after the ensuing brawl , Iago has built himself a platform from which he can now act the perfect friend : As we alone know , to get the truth from what Iago says about Cassio one must simply invert everything he says . |
| 15 | There is every indication that he believed it to be true , whether it was or not . |
| 16 | If one believes it to be true that Christ is the Son of God one sees why one should be Christian . |
| 17 | I believe it to be true of all such moves that they are dubiously orthodox . |
| 18 | " I do n't see how you can go too far , in the right direction , " said Clara , not for the sake of saying it , but because , on some level , she profoundly believed it to be true . |
| 19 | The notion that " one hour 's sleep before midnight is worth two afterwards " has perennially been invoked to put children to bed early ( although only 10 per cent of the survey sample believed it to be true ) . |
| 20 | What it is in general for a thing a to have the power to produce b is for it to be true that an individual property or properties of a , together with other things , will constitute a causal circumstance for b . |
| 21 | The proper reply , which accepts the fact that we may rightly have some suspicion of a view on the ground that its proponent wants it to be true , is that the satisfactions afforded by indeterminist as against determinist claims of one kind and another are far greater . |
| 22 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 23 | He may admit ( unwisely again ) that in using that proposition as a premise he is implicitly claiming to know it to be true . |
| 24 | But by our first truism about truth , for it to be true that there 's honey is just for there to be honey . |
| 25 | Panicked , she did n't want it to be true , because if it was , it increased the threat he constituted a thousandfold . |
| 26 | Until now he had never believed it to be true , that something as heavy as gold could fall naturally from the sky . |
| 27 | A negligent misrepresentation is one made by someone who believes it to be true but has no reasonable grounds for so believing , e.g. a car dealer who claims as having been made in 1959 , a car of a type not manufactured before 1960 . |
| 28 | A completely innocent misrepresentation is one made by someone who genuinely and on reasonable grounds believes it to be true . |
| 29 | I do not want to dwell on it ; we know it to be true . |
| 30 | Although I am questioned on this in moments of crisis , I firmly believe it to be true . |