Example sentences of "out [prep] [be] false " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story turned out to be false . |
| 2 | They do n't have time to verify stuff , a lot of the time they just put it out and it turns out to be false . |
| 3 | The recognition that the assumption of the effectiveness of law may turn out to be false in all or at least specific areas does not mean that all legal activity in relation to international law is worthless . |
| 4 | In such cases someone who says ‘ I know ’ lays himself open to reproach if what he says turns out to be false in much the same way as someone who says ‘ I promise ’ lays himself open to reproach if he does not do what he promised to do . |
| 5 | Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls . |
| 6 | I can therefore gladly admit that falsificationists like myself much prefer an attempt to solve an interesting problem by a bold conjecture , even ( and especially ) if it soon turns out to be false , to any recital of a sequence of irrelevant truisms . |
| 7 | Now if the prediction that follows from this maze of premises turns out to be false ( in our example , if the planet does not appear at the predicted location ) , then all that the logic of the situation permits us to conclude is that at least one of the premises must be false . |
| 8 | Mr Mohamed Al Fayed thus obliged a leading French newspaper to substantiate , by implication , a grand version of his personal history that has turned out to be false . ’ |
| 9 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 10 | The Canadian courts have taken the first step , by accepting that the media has a qualified privilege to publish information ( which later turns out to be false ) about a possible public health hazard . |
| 11 | Martin 's mother phoned the Foreign Office for more details , but the information turned out to be false . |