Example sentences of "it be true " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then he asks himself if people would have enjoyed the story any more had it been true , and if they would have achieved any greater insight into themselves and their destinies . |
| 2 | He would n't let it be true . |
| 3 | Could it be true ! |
| 4 | When we nodded assent , Mr Murray smiled ‘ And would it be true to suggest that my old friend Tom Warner is the Divisional Superintendent here for the C.P.R. ? |
| 5 | Can it be true that , 6000 miles from home , he once called on a well-known American geophysicist in the middle of the night with an urgent request to have a secretary type his latest contribution to the journals ? |
| 6 | Can it be true that , master of an essentially observational science , he has only ever made one observation in his life ( that is to say down the mines in Lancashire ) ? |
| 7 | However , on the second , more rigorist , view , her action would turn out to be wrong , should it be true that with even more effort she could have relieved still more suffering , or caused just a little more happiness ( without countervailing harm ) . |
| 8 | The ‘ folk community ’ is idealized , with no recognition of the huge variety of musical practices ( and social forms ) involved ( think of the differences between the music , and social function , of , say , West African griots , American Indian ceremonial songs and European medieval ballads ) ; in very , very few — if any — of these cases is there no class differentiation ( and thus hierarchies , divisions of function , and so on ) ; in none would it be true to say that musical production occurs ‘ naturally ’ rather than as the result of learned skills and conventions . |
| 9 | Now er with the vehicles on the road today more and more accidents And certainly motorways , and bearing in mind I would imagine , er would it be true to say that the majority of mo driving is done on motorways and dual carriageways ? |
| 10 | ‘ Can it be true , that you love me ? |
| 11 | Could it be true ? |
| 12 | Thus that no more than three lines can intersect at right angles in a point ; that a line ( theoretically ) can be extended into infinity ; that congruent figures can be superimposed upon each other , while incongruent figures ca n't ( even though they are completely alike in all points ) etc. ; all of this may be phenomenologically obvious , but why should it be true of an objective world ? |
| 13 | Could it be true about the twenty million ? |
| 14 | Could it be true ? |
| 15 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 16 | But why should n't it be true ? she reasoned . |
| 17 | How can it be true ? |
| 18 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 19 | Certainly , if it were true , it would readily enable explanations for the simultaneous presence of daily and ultradian rhythms in the adult and the switch from ultradian to daily rhythms during the months after birth ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 20 | Nice , if it were true . |
| 21 | But even as she was citing this as the reason , citing it only to herself , she was wondering whether it were true . |
| 22 | If it were true it would be a remarkable telepathic phenomenon , but sadly there is usually a much simpler explanation . |
| 23 | And I was even more curious as to why it was that Milton Friedman could so confidently assert in his writings a belief in the value of freedom , or Harry Johnson in the value of efficiency or Nicholas Kaldor in the value of equality , if it were true that facts and values could be distinguished so clearly . |
| 24 | However , if it were true , as has been suggested , that certain issues and constituencies are systematically disenfranchised by the traditional representative model of English politics , this would greatly weaken the justification for reserving to the legislature the exclusive right to determine the form of second-level policy-making institutions such as public local inquiries , and to decide what procedural entitlements should be afforded to objectors at them . |
| 25 | The British seeker lost in the German metaphysical jungle , the homecomer from Paris dinner-parties armed with the latest idea , or what he hopes may pass for that , are abiding images for fun-making ; and cultural insularity is a vice to be levelled against the British only by those who do not know them , though those who do sometimes have cause to wish it were true . |
| 26 | Even if it were true , it now seems very likely that the storage of non-verbal story material by the use of imagery is a process used in every language . |
| 27 | Even if it were true ( as some economists argue ) that exchange rates tend , over time , to equalise the prices of internationally traded goods , big differences would remain in the prices of non-traded goods and services , such as housing and domestic transport . |
| 28 | Even if it were true that the war is over and the Serbs have won , victory will not bring stability to Bosnia & Hercegovina . |
| 29 | It is a speech of effusive praise , which if it were true , would make her an exceptionally loving child . |
| 30 | They show convincingly that the belief in women 's capacity for boring and repetitive work is part of industrial folklore : if it were true , turnover rates should be no higher in industries which offer such work than in those where the work is more intrinsically interesting . |