Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be false " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the statement is now considered to be false . |
| 2 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 3 | Consequently 1940s ' optimism about a finite amount of ill-health and disease susceptible to a comprehensive health care system was seen to be false , based on erroneous concepts of health and illness . |
| 4 | If the fact that the label is encoded there helps in the interpretation of a pronoun referring to that object , the other half of Sag & Hankamer 's hypothesis — that deep anaphors are interpreted with respect to only a mental model — will be shown to be false . |
| 5 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 6 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 7 | In the spirit of this observation , however , it is not enough to argue that Marx 's views have been shown to be false by the continuing development of capitalist socialisation . |
| 8 | Alas , this conclusion was shown to be false in no uncertain manner when , on Christmas eve , instead of being fed , he had his throat cut . |
| 9 | According to falsificationism , some theories can be shown to be false by an appeal to the results of observation and experiment . |
| 10 | Both these denials had been shown to be false . |
| 11 | In particular , his idea that the depths of the sea were lifeless was shown to be false with the deep-sea dredges begun in connection with the laying of telegraph cables beneath the oceans . |
| 12 | Most are known to be false . |
| 13 | But in libel law , it generally refers to dishonest writing or reporting — the publication of facts which are known to be false , or opinions which are not genuinely held . |
| 14 | When eventually the story was checked it was found to be false , evidently initiated as part of an intercommunal feud by a tribal group which held a grudge against the government . |
| 15 | Other components have been found to be false , or unhelpful . |
| 16 | In everyday language , it is often the case that an apparently unproblematic ‘ observation statement ’ is found to be false when an expectation is disappointed , due to the falsity of some theory presupposed in the assertion of the observation statement . |
| 17 | By contrast , a scientist who produces results which are later found to be false runs the risk of losing respectability amongst his peers , advancement from his employers and future support from funding institutions . |
| 18 | The Apollo missions have confirmed that the Moon is lifeless ; all the hopes that Galileo 's observations promised of another inhabited world have proved to be false . |
| 19 | … Its report restored to the public a sense of security , which had been badly shaken by Lord Hewart 's book , and which subsequent events have proved to be false . |
| 20 | The verificationist who is unwilling to admit the possibility of such facts ( in this he is a consistent anti-realist ) must therefore say that such a statement , though perhaps it may be determinately false when one of its consequences is observed to be false , still can not achieve determinate truth . |
| 21 | Usually it is assumed to be FALSE . |