Example sentences of "[vb -s] to [be] true [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also want to establish the degree to which he wants to be true to the facts , such as they are . |
| 2 | Its digital nature is not an incidental fact that happens to be true of genetic information technology . |
| 3 | It ceases to be true of the great tit as a matter of fact , because if you follow populations of the great tits westward across Europe , the Middle East and Northern India into Southern China , they gradually change and become smaller and darker . |
| 4 | This appears to be true of chimpanzees ( under poor food conditions ) , orang-utans , and spider monkeys which show neither coalition formation nor matrilines . |
| 5 | 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 , |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | The same seems to be true of anxiety . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The same seems to be true of vitamins A and E. The best food sources of selenium are fish and whole grains . |
| 11 | This seems to be true of N. lapillus as well . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the same seems to be true of at least parts of the apparatus of cellular machinery whereby DNA replicates itself , and this applies not just to the cells of advanced creatures like ourselves and amoebas , but also to relatively more primitive creatures like bacteria and blue-green algae . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |