Example sentences of "to be true in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that families do not ‘ look after their own ’ is not found to be true in practice . |
| 2 | In the ancient world slaves had been most commonly used as domestic servants and artisans , and this may well have continued to be true in the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This can also be shown to be true in BSL , indicating that surface features of languages may be used in different ways to express conceptual material but that these differences should not be seen as deficits . |
| 5 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 6 | This might well come to be true in secondary schools in England and Wales through the formulation of a national curriculum and the defining of national criteria for GCSE and the so-called benchmarks . |
| 7 | Their penchant for turning defence into attack is well-known but Antrim could have their measure this time round although that might be considered too good to be true in some quarters . |
| 8 | It seems , then , that no contrast between syllable-final and exists in RP , and the same appears to be true in relation to and and to and . |
| 9 | So all those myths about the wicked step- father , the wicked step-mother and so forth seem almost to be true in this respect . |
| 10 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |