Example sentences of "[be] true of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 2 | Something has got to give : all these italicized attributions can not be true of the same person at once . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |
| 5 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 6 | Again this would , by and large , be true of most of the matrilineal societies of New Guinea where , by most reckoning , the status of women would be considered lower than in many of the patrilineal societies of West Africa . |
| 7 | The same has turned out to be true of show-jumping , a little-known landed pursuit before it was taken up by the BBC as a sport which might appeal to women , especially when Pat Smythe rode Flanagan to four European Championship victories between 1957 and 1963 . |
| 8 | A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The marriage of a person who has been judicially declared insane is totally void , and the same is said to be true of any disposition of property made by such a person . |
| 12 | The old master-spy , William Casey , was said , not least by North , to have masterminded both the Iran and contra operations , and that may well be true of the broad canvas ; but the marks are those of an enthusiastic amateur in espionage , a man who had learnt his craft of secret agent more from the cinema than from the CIA handbook . |
| 13 | This appears to be true of chimpanzees ( under poor food conditions ) , orang-utans , and spider monkeys which show neither coalition formation nor matrilines . |
| 14 | These characteristics can only be true of one Deity . |
| 15 | In the last decade microbiologists have realised that , though what is true of E. coli may not always be true of the elephant , it is generally true of other eubacteria . |
| 16 | However , if current divorce rates continue this will be true of many more in future . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the same has proved to be true of experiments using Lawrence 's original design . |
| 18 | We can say , however , that whatever may be true of acquired distinctiveness , the reality of acquired equivalence must be accepted . |
| 19 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 20 | But is there anything that must be true of all life , wherever it is found , and whatever the basis of its chemistry ? |
| 21 | The same can be true of the irresistible attractions of unhealthy food . |
| 22 | The same would be true of resuscitation and any similar intervention . |
| 23 | For example , while in 198515 per cent of those aged over 75 were unable to bath without help , on the basis of current trends this will be true of 17 per cent by 2001 , an increase of almost 188,000 people , simply because of the increased proportion of those actually aged over 85 . |
| 24 | It might be true of some forms of knowledge , but it is absolutely false in terms of experience . |
| 25 | The same may be true of a book which has been deliberately produced to a high standard of physical appearance . |
| 26 | But this can also be true of educationalists who are seconded to a new project outside their own institution . |
| 27 | And the same process can be true of the other spiritual gifts . |
| 28 | Paul 's description of the first Gentile Christians scattered round the Mediterranean coastlands of the first century AD would be true of the family into which I was born : ‘ not many wise as men reckon wisdom , not many in positions of power or from noblest families , not many wealthy ’ ( 1 Corinthians 1:26 ) . |
| 29 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 30 | However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics . |