Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [prep] be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although at first the converse might appear to be true , I believe it 's actually more difficult ( and therefore expensive ) to assemble a worthwhile bass that functions with pleasing efficiency — particularly in this cost-conscious area . |
| 2 | It is a conception that might not be true of it , or all of it , and which might cease to be true of it or of all of it . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not the kind of thing you 'd want to be true , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ( In the penal field , this would appear to be true of the Home Office which has been largely successful over the years in getting its strategy of ‘ penological pragmatism ’ implemented : see Chapters 1 and 10 ; Bottoms , 1990a ; and Fitzgerald and Sim , 1990 . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With the evolutionarily intrusive possibility of linguistic deceit , as opposed to mere malfunction of communication , communicative exchanges would then come to be understood as having truth as their aim ; and the Gricean template would come to be true of the pursuit of those aims . |
| 7 | This will prove to be true , not only in considering the authors individually , but also in demonstrating some common patterns of behaviour , personality , and creative expression among writers subject to pathological mental states . |
| 8 | It will continue to be true to its founding principles , available to all and free at the point of delivery , ’ she said . |