Example sentences of "[prep] [be] true " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally this does not ensue from flagrant compromises in outlook and working methods but rather as a result of being true to real aims and objectives . |
| 2 | Thus he may admit that words like ‘ right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ can be , and often are , understood in a non-utilitarian fashion , perhaps simply to express ill considered emotions in statements incapable of rational testing or of being true or false . |
| 3 | We all know therefore that everyone tries to get their own beliefs by methods that will maximise their chances of being true : like Pooh getting his belief about what 's in his honey pot by tasting it . |
| 4 | So if , for example , I believe that you 've got your belief about whether there 's honey by an especially good method which I ca n't use ( because I ca n't get at your honey pot ) , then I will naturally want to adopt your belief , in order to acquire with it its high chance of being true . |
| 5 | Sarah understood instinctively the romantic feel of the product , coupled with Laura 's personal philosophy of being true to oneself as a woman and letting everything revolve around the home . |
| 6 | For instance , in his discussion about " navigable rivers " he actually says that the phrase : ( 24 ) the only navigable river unambiguously expresses the characteristic notion , and not that of being true for some particular occasion ; but this does not seem to give an indisputable picture of normal English usage , and the same goes for his remark about : ( 25 ) the only river navigable which he describes as " unambiguously occasion " . |
| 7 | The original reasons for seeking a Royal Charter remain : it would give greater status to the Association , its members and indeed the whole industry ; we would enjoy the endorsement by the Privy Council to our qualifications for membership ; recognition by the Privy Council would add weight to the Association 's opinion on issues when lobbying Government or debating with others ; our members would have the Privy Council 's endorsement of being true professionals with the opportunityfor a Corporate member to be called a Chartered Hotelier or a Chartered Caterer . |
| 8 | In attempting to assist pupils in both these areas the Catholic teacher is conscious of the necessity of being true to educational principles . |
| 9 | It 's just a case of being true to what you feel and being true to yourself giving yourself as good a chance as any of being heard . |
| 10 | But our review of the literature on environmental scanning contained in Appendix B has shown that all too frequently this is far from being true . |
| 11 | Real freedom comes from being true to your real beliefs . |
| 12 | ‘ but invariably , even when we have needed to correct or update details in our reports , the sad fact remains that the overall portrait of horror has been shown to be true and if anything , understated . ’ |
| 13 | Not to be true to the materials but false to them ! he wrote . |
| 14 | Too good to be true ! |
| 15 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 16 | But if a statement such as ‘ John is tall ’ is to be true , then the predicate ‘ is tall ’ must latch on to the world , just as ‘ John ’ does . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A parallel attraction of the theory is that it seems to constrain perception to be true — to be only about things that impinge on the nervous system ; that are , in other words , ‘ really there ’ . |
| 19 | If perception has to be triggered off by what is actually there , then it is constrained to be true . |
| 20 | The idea that families do not ‘ look after their own ’ is not found to be true in practice . |
| 21 | In reality this is unlikely to be true , as student and teacher do not have an equal possession of the text . |
| 22 | How one would like that to be true ! |
| 23 | The statement does not have to be true or relevant , of course — it just has to sound true and relevant . |
| 24 | For that to be true , the diesel must have come of age . |
| 25 | Its villages look too good to be true . |
| 26 | It is n't too good to be true though — your admission fee just gets you in there — all activities cost extra . |
| 27 | He says what he believes to be true and even if one disagrees with him , his uncompromising stances are vastly preferable to some of the gobbledy-gook that comes from some sections of the countryside establishment or those who change their views from year to year . |
| 28 | Though in a different way , what we have seen to be true of Gide was also true of Wilde : ‘ running foul of the law in his sexual life was a stimulus to thought on every subject … . |
| 29 | She could not be certain that she wanted it to be true . |
| 30 | Both these opinions were repeated to me by many people and both seemed likely to be true . |