Example sentences of "be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 2 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 3 | It would be true to say that catholic nationalism was at its most formidable in the years between independence and the rise of pragmatic politics in the Republic under Sean Lemass in the late 1950s . |
| 4 | Not to be true to the materials but false to them ! he wrote . |
| 5 | Too good to be true ! |
| 6 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 7 | But if a statement such as ‘ John is tall ’ is to be true , then the predicate ‘ is tall ’ must latch on to the world , just as ‘ John ’ does . |
| 8 | I think that it would be true to say that , nowadays , most materialists want to avoid theories that are as nakedly behaviouristic as this , and want to accommodate the common-sense intuition that something inner and introspectible is missing in the blind or deaf , for example , in addition to their lost capacity to respond . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Something has got to give : all these italicized attributions can not be true of the same person at once . |
| 11 | This seems to me to represent good grounds for believing that functionalism itself may well be true . |
| 12 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 13 | If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there , then it is constrained to be true . |
| 14 | The idea that families do not ‘ look after their own ’ is not found to be true in practice . |
| 15 | Similarly , if a 16 colour bit image file format refers to red , green , blue and intensity planes , this will only be true of the default palette settings . |
| 16 | In reality this is unlikely to be true , as student and teacher do not have an equal possession of the text . |
| 17 | How one would like that to be true ! |
| 18 | We act as if the anti-Semitism comprehended the Fascism — which would be true only if all Fascists were anti-Semites ( they are n't ) , and if all anti-Semites were Fascists ( even less true ) . |
| 19 | The statement does not have to be true or relevant , of course — it just has to sound true and relevant . |
| 20 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 21 | For that to be true , the diesel must have come of age . |
| 22 | That may still be true of the set-piece studio interview — though even there the prior indication of ‘ lines of questioning ’ is by no means unknown ( and the viewer would probably be astonished at the general closeness of the atmosphere that prevails in the green room afterwards ) . |
| 23 | Its villages look too good to be true . |
| 24 | That could be true . |
| 25 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 26 | That may be true , but in 1987 hostile interviews with Neil Kinnock trying to explain his party 's defence policy counted as part of the Labour Party 's coverage . |
| 27 | It is n't too good to be true though — your admission fee just gets you in there — all activities cost extra . |
| 28 | He says what he believes to be true and even if one disagrees with him , his uncompromising stances are vastly preferable to some of the gobbledy-gook that comes from some sections of the countryside establishment or those who change their views from year to year . |
| 29 | In the summer and autumn of 1989 it seemed possible that this might no longer be true . |
| 30 | It may or may not be true that positive control of development , the compelling of development to conform to a particular plan determined by the state , is unattainable without nationalisation . |