Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to be true [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the same has again been found to be true of some normal schizotypal individuals and , notably , the genetically related children of schizophrenics . |
| 2 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
| 3 | ‘ Brother shall deliver up brother to death ’ could be said to be true of Jerome , for if he had not killed he had indeed delivered Aldhelm to his death . |
| 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 | Once a logical contradiction is admitted to a system of propositions any other proposition and its negation can be proved to be true by virtue of the rules of formal logic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The same is known to be true of the reel-to-reel tapes favoured by the older mainframe computers . |
| 8 | But , as he assured Southey on 21 October , he was resolved to be true to his word , even as he contemplated a future with ‘ her , whom I do not love — but whom by every tie of Reason and Honor I ought to love ’ . |