Example sentences of "[modal v] be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( As I write , I hesitate — I would not like to be disrespectful — but continue , because the picture would not otherwise be true , and I think that she , above all people , would agree that a description should be true . ) |
| 2 | Van Fraassen offers a challenge in saying : show exactly what about the explanatory relationships tends to guarantee that if x explains y and y is true , then x should be true as well . |
| 3 | This last statement should be true for most punishment situations but it is particularly necessary with the restraint method . |
| 4 | That is to say , what is true of the sample should be true of the population , or at least it should be possible to calculate the likelihood of its being true . |
| 5 | The duty of broadcasting and journalism in the world struggle became not to reflect the truth but to choose what should be true , in the interest of public policy . |
| 6 | It should be true to the brand ( of course ! ) , competitively powerful , and , as far as possible , unique . |
| 7 | The same should be true , in principle , of any truly ambiguous expression . |
| 8 | That would mean that any statement made about the car should ha w should be true . |
| 9 | Those statements should be true but erm you would n't have the right that it was of merchantable quality . |
| 10 | I think it would skip to environment being the prerogative of local authorities , there will be a great variation across the country , and I do n't think anybody seriously would expect that to happen about health and safety at work , and I think the same should be true of the environment . |
| 11 | It must be true that Nanny was a liar and a trouble-maker because he could hear her saying all those terrible things that might cause Frankie to be taken away for ever . |
| 12 | Competition and selection are logically inevitable features of ecology , and this must be true on any planet on which life-forms reproduce and depend on supplies that can run out . |
| 13 | The idea of ‘ Meaning as use ’ associated with the later Wittgenstein was never meant to imply that if enough people used a certain expression it must be true . |
| 14 | I have seen enough already to know that my work on Christabel must be seriously altered in the light of what you have in these letters — I would n't be happy going on without taking them into account — and that must be true of Dr Michell 's work on Ash too , just as true . ’ |
| 15 | The naturalists do not admit that they are referring to rules of genre ; their writings must be true , not just likely . |
| 16 | But is there anything that must be true of all life , wherever it is found , and whatever the basis of its chemistry ? |
| 17 | Children tend to believe that those adults around them are all-wise and all-powerful and it follows that whatever these adults say must be true . |
| 18 | Against the naive assumption that if it says so in the book ( or the paper , or the report ) it must be true , we appear to have cast doubt on every type of written document ever produced . |
| 19 | It must be true . |
| 20 | What must be true is that no system of predicting good and bad risks — computer credit scoring , personal interview , previous payment history , or any combination of these — can be infallible . |
| 21 | The essential idea is extraordinarily simple , so simple that it must be true , and it turns out that it is . |
| 22 | And of course , if it was in the paper it must be true . |
| 23 | And being one sensation , what is true of the pain must be true of the heat . |
| 24 | For ‘ I know p ’ to be true , p must be true . |
| 25 | She realised that what was being said about Michael must be true . |
| 26 | The same must be true of the provisions relating to error , fraud and corruption , coercion , and jus cogens . |
| 27 | More must be true of any different pair of things which in fact are causal circumstance and effect . |
| 28 | My beliefs — the things I use words to express , with more or less success — must be true . |
| 29 | I guess … because Galileo did it , or at least if what I know about him is true , this must be true . |
| 30 | Jazz here is ‘ about fidelity , about the sole real art there is , about what one must be true to , come hell or high water ; what must be done to the point of collapse ( Škvorecký 1980 : 8 , 20 ) ; and in Škvoreck ý's; own Czechoslovakia , the persecution in the mid-1980s of the ‘ Jazz Section ’ — which has supported rock and punk as well as jazz — confirms the subversive potency and ‘ alternative ’ status , still , of this music . |