Example sentences of "the [adj] true " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the confusion is understandable : British Whites went to the USA along with the few true White Parks during the Second World War for the security of the breeds . |
| 2 | The lowest true cost represents the best value . |
| 3 | In the latter case , of course , the sole criterion for being in the right is that of being opposed to the protagonist most closely identified with the parental authority — a very easy requirement to fulfil as the following true , but rather ludicrous , example shows . |
| 4 | Then out of the blue , out of the real true blue , the Messiah with a droop moustache did a runner . |
| 5 | If we require for knowledge that the justified true belief be based on conclusive reasons , all the Gettier cases , and indeed any case in which the believer is right by accident , fall to the ground . |
| 6 | Nozick suggests that the reason why we take the justified true beliefs in those examples not to have been known is that a would have believed them even if they had been false . |
| 7 | Thus the estimates used in the GRE for 1983/4 were less than 50 per cent of the likely true figures . |
| 8 | John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) . |
| 9 | In the simplest true eyes , the opening of the cup-like depression is narrowed . |
| 10 | Shot entirely on location in South Central LA , the film aims to give the first true picture of what life is like in the ‘ LA Hood ’ . |
| 11 | The first true holder of the post , Lord Russell , had been ordered by the privy council to raise his troops to put down a West Country revolt against the prayer book . |
| 12 | Ramapithecus lasted for about 7 million years and may have then given rise to the first true hominid , Australopithecus , which has a similar dental structure . |
| 13 | The date 1830 was chosen because it was during that year that the first true naturalist wrote . |
| 14 | But even during the Carboniferous the first true reptiles had evolved , and this was the group that was to make itself wholly independent of the water . |
| 15 | The first true prep schools were started in the nineteenth century , in the confused wake of the great public schools . |
| 16 | His Confessions , written not long before the Fall of Rome , was an even more original form of literature than Rousseau 's written more than a thousand years later , for it was the first true autobiography . |
| 17 | The Italians , and the Dutch , surprisingly , were the first true landscape painters , the Italian countryside always their source of inspiration . |
| 18 | The concept was translated into practical terms with such urgency that the first true thermonuclear device ( MIKE ) was exploded on 1 November , 1952 , and gave a yield of 10 megatonnes ( about 1000 times as great as the bombs dropped on Japan ) . |
| 19 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 20 | Others , however , probably burrowed underground , surviving long enough to become the first true mammals . |
| 21 | The Wailers were the first true self-contained live act in reggae not dependent on any pick-up members and capable of blowing away any other band in the world . |
| 22 | The silver coinage of the late seventh century took over the developing role of gold coin and may be the first true cash in England for commercial transactions . |
| 23 | The first true day cream . |
| 24 | In November the same label issues The Damned 's ‘ New Rose ’ , hailed by many as the first true punk single . |
| 25 | Not only do the letters and inventories of Vollard , Durand-Ruel and Hébrard greatly illuminate the history of the casts , but the individual entries on the sculptures constitute the first true catalogue of these works . |
| 26 | Wait until you can see the first true leaves between the two seed leaves . |
| 27 | Is 1992 going to be the first true Year of the Environment ? |
| 28 | She did so willingly : it was the first true gesture of kinship she had received since her mother 's death . |
| 29 | The first true Ferrari was seen at Piacenza in 1947 and by the time the World Championship was introduced in 1950 , Ferraris were soon gaining a reputation for being a reliable car . |
| 30 | The first true factory built in England was the silk mill built for John and Thomas Lombe at Derby in 1718–22 . |