Example sentences of "to be false " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary ; corduroy and other imitation velvets , like velour and velveteen , were considered all along to be false finery , puffed up and pompous . |
| 2 | He regretted that Plato had not broken with the gods of the old cults and myths even though he had evidently known them to be false . |
| 3 | The story turned out to be false . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Never apply it to a document that you know to be false or incorrect . |
| 6 | So that is how Virginia became friends with the witch of Wardle Wood and discovered for herself that the best way of dealing with fear is to face it with brave unselfishness and prove it to be false . |
| 7 | If the fact that the label is encoded there helps in the interpretation of a pronoun referring to that object , the other half of Sag & Hankamer 's hypothesis — that deep anaphors are interpreted with respect to only a mental model — will be shown to be false . |
| 8 | This I subsequently discovered to be false . |
| 9 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 10 | The Apollo missions have confirmed that the Moon is lifeless ; all the hopes that Galileo 's observations promised of another inhabited world have proved to be false . |
| 11 | It has been claimed that a third brother settled in America and that one of his descendants founded the internationally known Piper Aircraft Corporation but research has shown this to be false . |
| 12 | On appeal , this assumption could be shown to be false and the village ends up with a significant new development site ; it is this type of appeal decision which leaves the layman surprised and frustrated at the way in which the system operates . |
| 13 | What is incontestable is that Mr Stewart 's conduct during the whole affair was entirely unbecoming of a representative of a national sports , and his claim that the TVNZ cameraman was obstructing the removal of David Lawrence from the field of play was proved by television evidence to be false . |
| 14 | Sadly , reality proved it to be false . |
| 15 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |
| 16 | When eventually the story was checked it was found to be false , evidently initiated as part of an intercommunal feud by a tribal group which held a grudge against the government . |
| 17 | But unless the defendant admits he knew the report to be false the prosecution will have to rely on circumstantial evidence . |
| 18 | send a message by telephone ( or telegram ) to … ( specify person ) which you knew to be false for the purpose of causing annoyance ( or inconvenience or needless anxiety ) to the said … ( or to … or |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The problem for the philosophers was : how to prove the generally accepted notion to be false . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Cordelia , like Coriolanus , is being forced into a ceremony in which she would have to be false to her own nature . |
| 23 | … Its report restored to the public a sense of security , which had been badly shaken by Lord Hewart 's book , and which subsequent events have proved to be false . |
| 24 | Other components have been found to be false , or unhelpful . |
| 25 | Repeating a five-year-old falsehood about his nationality , he applied for a one-year renewal of his passport on 24 September 1938 and , on this occasion , repeated what he now knew to be false that he was British by birth . |
| 26 | Of 221 launches in answer to unidentified distress signals 216 turned out to be false alarms or hoax calls . |
| 27 | However , in the passage in which he specifically considers whether a woman can be ordained , his answering in the negative , it must be pointed out , is dependent on biological presuppositions which we now know to be false . |
| 28 | The verificationist who is unwilling to admit the possibility of such facts ( in this he is a consistent anti-realist ) must therefore say that such a statement , though perhaps it may be determinately false when one of its consequences is observed to be false , still can not achieve determinate truth . |
| 29 | Quality : Do not say what you believe to be false . |
| 30 | In the spirit of this observation , however , it is not enough to argue that Marx 's views have been shown to be false by the continuing development of capitalist socialisation . |