Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the testable condition evaluates to 1 , for example , the result of the test would be considered to be TRUE and the THEN part of the IF … |
| 2 | NOT 1 evaluates to -2 , which would also be considered to be TRUE . |
| 3 | At first this might sound a little too simple — or a clever exit from responsibility — but if thought about can be seen to be true . |
| 4 | Is saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm so tired ’ natural tiredness-behaviour for us , in spite of the fact that ‘ I 'm tired ’ , unlike yawning , even pretence yawning , can be said to be true or false ? |
| 5 | How far can the characteristics suggested for tribunals be said to be true of tribunals to the exclusion of other forms of dispute resolution ? |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A large number of facts relevant to a theory must be ascertained by observation under a wide variety of circumstances , and the extent to which the theory can be shown to be true or probably true in the light of those facts by some kind of inductive inference must be established . |
| 9 | According to the latter , only those theories that can be shown to be true or probably true are to be admitted into science . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These difficulties have resolved themselves into the question : is the comment " fair " , in the sense of being one which the commentator could honestly express , on the strength of such of his facts as can be proved to be true ? |
| 12 | Professor Glennerster says that his research shows that none of the alleged scares about the scheme could be found to be true . |
| 13 | And if it does , how can it be known to be true ? |
| 14 | What is being said , in effect , it might be argued , is that there exist certain propositions which can be known to be true , and if so , existential propositions will not have been " eliminated " ; only the values of the variables of quantification will have been changed , with propositions taking the place of ontological objects . |
| 15 | Both find that life , and of course the activity of philosophy , is untenable without some standards of absolute truth , the canon of ‘ reason ’ , which can generate knowledge that can be held to be true regardless of perspective or context . |