Example sentences of "this [prep] [be] true " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry looked at the pages of script he had written in praise of the man he had helped on the way to eternal bliss , and found this to be true . |
| 2 | In most instances further questioning reveals this to be true . |
| 3 | Hector Buckley was told he would make many lifelong friends and some enemies , and found this to be true ; but he was involved again in 1988 . |
| 4 | I am only too aware that the issue of home taping is very much a hot potato ; any number of recent magazine articles and letters have shown this to be true . |
| 5 | Once his appearance has been changed to identify him with the group ( it may be dyeing his hair shocking pink or wearing a big badge ) , then not only will other people assume that he has agreed to all the ideas and implications of the movement but he himself will be more likely to feel this to be true , even to throw all doubt to the four winds without further investigation . |
| 6 | so the must sum to zero if the constraints are to be feasible and we will assume this to be true hereafter . |
| 7 | I knew this to be true and believed firmly that when the word was given me in 1986 it would be fulfilled some time in the future . |
| 8 | Recent events in Zaire show this to be true . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 11 | I believe this to be true in the case of computers where they do lag behind the West : I do not believe it in the case of radar . |
| 12 | The United States was too important for this to be true . |
| 13 | Artemis knew this to be true , but was more than a little reluctant to part with Paintbox . |
| 14 | Given our account of causal circumstances , that is fundamentally to say , in line with the independent conditional ( 5 ) set out in Section I .3 and mentioned at the beginning of this section , that for a to have the power to produce b is for roughly this to be true : if A & C , even if X , still B — where C asserts the existence of other conditions or events . |
| 15 | Events proved this to be true . |
| 16 | Assuming this to be true , I thought that Brian and I might be in a better position . |
| 17 | Marslen-Wilson ( 1978 ) has shown this to be true . |
| 18 | Having stayed with the headmaster and talked to the boys , I know this to be true . |
| 19 | All five LEAs examined in detail had arts development projects in progress and a survey across the region showed this to be true of 85 per cent of LEAs . |