Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , it 's improbable enough to be true . |
| 2 | Truths of geometry can be proved , and so known not only to be true but also to be necessarily true . |
| 3 | A person who is illegitimate may very well resent being called a bastard , although it happens literally to be true . |
| 4 | Not to be true to the materials but false to them ! he wrote . |
| 5 | If it is found not to be true , the member may claim qualified privilege if he acted without malice . |
| 6 | Most of all , The Lord of the Rings is felt not to be true to ‘ the fundamental character of reality ’ , not to mirror ‘ an adult experience of the world ’ , not to portray ‘ an emotional truth about humanity ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 8 | The arts enable us to assert ideas and judgments which we may recognize collectively to be true which can not be proved in other ways , through empirical experiment , for instance . |
| 9 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 10 | Sir Brynmor Jones said jocularly : " The teacher who can be replaced by a teaching machine or any audio-visual aid deserves to be ( 1968 : 281 ) and this might be thought also to be true of replacement by ancillaries . |
| 11 | When parents are faithful to each other , it 's more likely that their children will grow up to be true to each other , too . |
| 12 | This is assumed provisionally to be true both of finished goods and of their factors of production , of the hire of labour and of the borrowing of capital . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If it should turn out to be true that God did intend males to exhibit strength in leadership roles and females to excel more as the guardians of society 's emotional resources , why should this be viewed ipso facto as an evil arrangement ? ’ |
| 15 | But how can I look him in the face and tell him that 's turned out to be true ? ’ |
| 16 | Yet unlikely figures often have a nasty habit of turning out to be true . |
| 17 | To those who would thoughtlessly dismiss this notion as ‘ silly ’ , Regan cautions that ‘ silly sounding ideas sometimes turn out to be true . |
| 18 | That turned out to be true . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact nearly all these academic predictions turn out to be true . |
| 20 | Already they were aware that if this turned out to be true , it would be revolutionary for geophysics and possibly for fusion research . |
| 21 | Ah but so did I and I did nothing but write during that time but I 've never known and everything I 've said about that is true , has turned out to be true . |
| 22 | The above relationship turns out to be true for any two magnetically coupled circuits . |
| 23 | I did not believe that he was likely to be one of my examiners in Finals , and this turned out to be true . |
| 24 | In this case , with hindsight , this suggestion turns out to be true . |
| 25 | ‘ My uncle 's stories sounded unlikely , but they always turned out to be true . |
| 26 | We are told that Tamburlaine is ‘ misled by dreaming prophecies ’ in the opening scene , and this may well turn out to be true . |
| 27 | If the story did turn out to be true , though , I think he might be pushing his luck . |
| 28 | The cause of death will now be established by a home office pathologist : Friends of the dead woman say she doted on her two young children and was n't the sort of person to have contemplated suicide — the pathologist 's report will show whether or not that turns out to be true . |
| 29 | That turned out to be true , but once the initial markdown had occurred the Footsie index traded in a fairly narrow band all day , although the number of transactions and the volume of shares traded held up strongly . |
| 30 | Five hundred years on , the Seldon plan is working too well to be true : the First Foundation deduces ( again ) the existence of the second , the second that of … a third ? |