Example sentences of "to [be] true [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something of the sort seems to be true for migratory birds , who have some practical grasp of the earth 's magnetic field or of stellar constellations ; and , as I shall suggest presently , the kingfisher may have some practical grasp of the refractive properties of water . |
| 2 | The above relationship turns out to be true for any two magnetically coupled circuits . |
| 3 | The same is likely to be true for South Eastern secretarial/office staff , and throws into question the chances of success of campaigns to recruit them such as recently initiated by the major Transport and General Workers Union ( TGWU ) ( see Financial Times , 5 and 6/12/86 ) . |
| 4 | the allegations pleaded ( which the court was required to assume to be true for the purposes of an issue as to service out of the jurisdiction ) were as follows . |
| 5 | Assuming , as before , the relation to be true for any volume V , we have where is the acceleration . |
| 6 | This also appears to be true for this study , see Figure 6.1 , here values of P(A) for the 48 films are simply plotted against the mean risk rating in each case . |
| 7 | While this may not be true for some black speakers , particularly in neighbourhoods with a high proportion of Caribbeans , it seems to be true for the majority of my black informants from the areas of Leyton , Catford and Southwark . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 … . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This appears to be true of chimpanzees ( under poor food conditions ) , orang-utans , and spider monkeys which show neither coalition formation nor matrilines . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the same has proved to be true of experiments using Lawrence 's original design . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics . |
| 19 | These problems are by no means unique to language in a signed mode and , as before , what appears to be true of spoken languages also can be shown to occur in BSL , |
| 20 | With the evolutionarily intrusive possibility of linguistic deceit , as opposed to mere malfunction of communication , communicative exchanges would then come to be understood as having truth as their aim ; and the Gricean template would come to be true of the pursuit of those aims . |
| 21 | The same seems to be true of anxiety . |
| 22 | The same is likely to be true of phenylalanine uptake across the placenta . |
| 23 | I believe it to be true of all such moves that they are dubiously orthodox . |
| 24 | No doubt we shall find out , but what seems to be true of this moment — 1989 , when photography has reached the 150 year point — is that many different kinds of photographic image-making co-exist and ore of equal validity . |
| 25 | It is a conception that might not be true of it , or all of it , and which might cease to be true of it or of all of it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
| 28 | ( In the penal field , this would appear to be true of the Home Office which has been largely successful over the years in getting its strategy of ‘ penological pragmatism ’ implemented : see Chapters 1 and 10 ; Bottoms , 1990a ; and Fitzgerald and Sim , 1990 . ) |
| 29 | The same seems to be true of vitamins A and E. The best food sources of selenium are fish and whole grains . |
| 30 | This has continued to be true of many aspects of social security policy . |