Example sentences of "[was/were] true [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were true for this woman , but more important than that they 're true for you and they 're true for me today . |
| 2 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 3 | But after carefully considering the plot and the situation , she accepted the raunchy bits , because she believed they were true to life . |
| 4 | Illustrators were hard at work representing things with photographic accuracy as a way of ensuring that their scenes and figures were true to life . |
| 5 | Suppose , first , that what is true to a limited extent of pain were true to a much greater extent of feelings of hot and cold . |
| 6 | Yet those elements you mention were true to the life most young people in particular knew at the time . |
| 7 | Perhaps you were true to your version of religion , who knows — who cares ? |
| 8 | But there were true to their word |
| 9 | Anne and Sarah were true to their pledge to enjoy every moment of their lives after their fright the previous September . |
| 10 | If this were true of him , and if the animal stamina demanded of a Secretary of State were so great , did n't that disqualify good men who lacked only that stamina ? |
| 11 | It might be argued that , even if such a statement were true of certain of Friedman 's works , it would not necessarily reveal anything about the man himself and also that the appeal to cognition was irrelevant . |
| 12 | If this were true of all individuals , then the aggregate demand for money ( MD ) could be written as proportional to money national income ( Y ) : where k is a constant . |
| 13 | If this already were true in traditional free market economies , imagine the gap to be closed with countries emerging from the iron hand of Stalinist control . |
| 14 | What was true of Rodin 's sculpture is also worth consideration by any reader of a sculptural monograph . |
| 15 | And what was true of France has also been true , a little later , of the English-speaking world . |
| 16 | ‘ That was true of Mussolini and Hitler above all ; and to some extent of Reagan , you see . |
| 17 | The same was true of NEP as a fiscal reform . |
| 18 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 19 | The same was true of breeders who chose sires by eye alone , or , even worse , on price . |
| 20 | This was true of what he did about both high policy and low politics . |
| 21 | This was true of the family vendetta , the resort to assassination as a political tactic , the systematic use of torture by the State . |
| 22 | The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles . |
| 23 | This was true of Uruguay in relation to the war between Somalia and Ethiopia . |
| 24 | The same was true of ITV , after the screening of Death on the Rock , Granada 's investigation into 1988 SAS killings of three IRA members in Gibraltar . |
| 25 | The same was true of cattle in much of Europe at the time , and probably reflected neglected animal husbandry and a failure to breed selectively in a period when crop-growing was far more important than livestock . |
| 26 | What was true of Methodism was true of the other churches in the town and district , and in the county as a whole . |
| 27 | What was true of Methodism was true of the other churches in the town and district , and in the county as a whole . |
| 28 | Similarly , the stagnation in student numbers between the two world wars was true of most British universities . |
| 29 | Such was true of those who scoffed at the idea that Blacks had moral rights . |
| 30 | The same was true of Greenock ( 1870 ) and Paisley ( 1874 ) in Scotland ( from Glasgow ) . |