Example sentences of "is true [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent to which the first proposition is true could only be determined by interviewing all of the successful Ph D students , and all of their supervisors , and attempting to reconcile two , possibly conflicting , sets of answers . |
| 2 | Dead metaphors for which this is true can be ‘ revived ’ by substituting for one or more of their constituent parts elements which ( in their literal uses ) are near-synonyms , or paraphrases . |
| 3 | The discovery that it is true can be a frightening and instructive process . |
| 4 | It is not unknown for the editor of a newspaper to be brought to the Bar of the House for uttering a scandalous allegation against the House or a Member of it and the fact that the allegation is true will not necessarily help him . |
| 5 | Imposing a restriction which is true should not worsen the ability of the explanatory variables to explain the dependent variable or , alternatively , relaxing the restriction and allowing the estimators of to be different should not lead to a much better fitting equation if are in fact not different . |
| 6 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |