Example sentences of "be true for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Classical elasticity as developed in the nineteenth century assumed that the deformations caused on application of load were small ; in fact the linear relation between stress and strain , as defined above , can only be true for infinitesimal strains . |
| 2 | It may be true for many services which are involved mainly with the transmission of information such as financial , legal and educational services , but for other services such as catering and food preparation , film production or computer services , I am not so sure . |
| 3 | Could this be true for all types of defacing ? ( razor-slashing other people 's faces not counted ! ) |
| 4 | Something of the sort seems to be true for migratory birds , who have some practical grasp of the earth 's magnetic field or of stellar constellations ; and , as I shall suggest presently , the kingfisher may have some practical grasp of the refractive properties of water . |
| 5 | This can only be true for those speakers who are more or less monostylistic and " basilectal " : in other words , those whose repertoire is confined to a variety of Creole which is almost maximally different from Standard English . |
| 6 | What is true for general histories also applies to surveys of more limited periods . |
| 7 | The same is true for toxic releases . |
| 8 | This is true for simple problems but , as I have said many times before , as soon as the problems become more complicated our mathematical knowledge turns out to be greatly deficient . |
| 9 | The same is true for other temperatures lying below T c , and the inflexion points can be joined to bound an area representing the heterogeneous two phase system , where there is limited solubility of component 2 in 1 and vice-versa . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it is true for all skills that a person developing skills is indulging in a process of constructing models of what is happening externally . |
| 11 | This is true for all points above the LM curve and it similarly follows that upward pressure will be exerted on interest rates at all points below the LM curve . |
| 12 | If the share of UK GDP accounted for by a particular region is equal to its share of UK population and , if this is true for all regions , then GDP is spread proportional to population throughout the country . |
| 13 | And showing the essence of it , and what is true for all numbers . |
| 14 | So when you go into the algebra , you 're extracting what is true for all numbers . |
| 15 | That international impact on local affairs is true for all economies . |
| 16 | This is true for two reasons . |
| 17 | This is true for whole nations as well as for individuals , as Israel 's his tory proved . |
| 18 | That 's how it was with me and I know it was true for many others . |
| 19 | Overall , patients with two risk factors took longer to heal ( 4.4 weeks ; 95% CI 4.1 , 4.7 ) than did those with only one risk factor ( 3.7 weeks ; 95% CI 3.5 , 3.9 ) ; this was true for all pairs of risk factors with the exception of multiple ulcers plus prior complications and multiple ulcers plus an ulcer greater than 15 mm in diameter ( Table IV ) , which were associated with prolonged healing only in comparison with an absence of risk factors . |
| 20 | Although this was true for some respondents , most policemen and women in Easton periodically sought reassurance from the researcher about the purpose of the research , what was being written down about them , who would have access to the material , what the researchers ' politics , religion , allegiances , and so on were . |
| 21 | This was true for most industries , the only notable exceptions being a significant increase in the use of fixed-term contract workers in the minerals and chemicals industry , in banking , insurance and businesses services and in education ( an increase in the proportion of " high users " only ) , and a significant decrease in their use in the construction industry . |