Example sentences of "[adv] [be] true " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have the score in your mind — you once said you do n't need a tape or a score to oversee in your mind the whole of Tristan — and this has obviously been true of other great conductors . |
| 2 | This had especially been true of the larger members . |
| 3 | ’ That better be true , Curb . |
| 4 | This will especially be true where the problem is a complex one , such as an investigation in historical causation . |
| 5 | This would quite naturally be true of adjectives of colour , size , and weight , and of other adjectives expressing basic perceptual notions . |
| 6 | Since the same will obviously be true of these ‘ other ’ genes themselves , we have a picture of teams of genes all evolving towards cooperative solutions to problems . |
| 7 | I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves . |
| 8 | Similarly , if a 16 colour bit image file format refers to red , green , blue and intensity planes , this will only be true of the default palette settings . |
| 9 | These characteristics can only be true of one Deity . |
| 10 | The internalist would claim that for the causal clause to turn justified true belief into knowledge , it must not only be true but be believed by a to be true . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | it was assumed that the segment-locating process is purely statistical , but this would only be true if ΔΕ 12 was zero ; |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In other words , the answer will only be TRUE if the results of the 2 tests are different . |
| 15 | While it may not necessarily be true that absence makes the heart grow fonder , there 's no doubt that too much unaccustomed togetherness can put a marriage under strain . |
| 16 | Although the applications will need to be changed , this will not necessarily be true of the data . |
| 17 | It may perhaps be true that 79 per cent of trees cut down are cleared by people needing to plant food or gather fuel , and that , if there were fewer people , there would be less need . |
| 18 | And this perhaps is true where trading efficiency is the issue . |
| 19 | One final passage from Myself My Two Countries vividly evokes the influences which formed Boulestin 's tastes in food and implanted in him that feeling for the authenticity which alone is true luxury . |
| 20 | In the twentieth century increasingly it has become possible for older people who have withdrawn from the labour market to support themselves from resources provided by the state rather than rely on their families ; the same has not been true of the youngest generation . |
| 21 | The same had not been true at Cambridge . |
| 22 | It may nevertheless be true that such a country may have been able to establish links with either party . |
| 23 | But besides being improbable in itself , it can scarcely be true , for Eadmer had mentioned that they had been produced in the royal court after Anselm 's death in 1109 . |
| 24 | In the summer and autumn of 1989 it seemed possible that this might no longer be true . |
| 25 | That may no longer be true . |
| 26 | ‘ That may no longer be true , sir . ’ |
| 27 | One day that might no longer be true . |
| 28 | Something has got to give : all these italicized attributions can not be true of the same person at once . |
| 29 | It may or may not be true that positive control of development , the compelling of development to conform to a particular plan determined by the state , is unattainable without nationalisation . |
| 30 | ‘ A dress , you ignoramus ’ ) , all he does is look in the mirror and say , ‘ This can not be true ! ’ |