adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false confession (= one that is not true )
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The officers were accused of extracting false confessions from some of the prisoners.
a false identity (= when someone pretends to be another person )
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He used a fake passport to assume a false identity.
a false sense of security (= a feeling that you are safe, which is not actually true )
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They were lulled into a false sense of security.
a false/empty/hollow promise (= one that will not be kept )
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I didn’t make any false promises.
a false/fake address
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He gave the police a false address.
a false/forged passport ( also a fake passport informal )
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He used a false passport to enter Kenya.
a false/misleading statement (= one that is not true )
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She is accused of making false statements to obtain a passport.
a false/mistaken impression
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He had the mistaken impression that Julia was married.
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Many people got the false impression she didn’t care.
a false/wrong move (= made by mistake )
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One wrong move and the business might never recover.
a false/wrong move (= in the wrong direction )
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One false move, and she’d fall over the edge.
a mistaken/false belief
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the mistaken belief that cannabis is not an addictive drug
a wrong/false/mistaken assumption
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Both theories are based on a single wrong assumption.
false alarm
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Fire fighters responded to a false alarm at one of the college dormitories.
false dawn
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The ceasefire turned out to be another false dawn.
false friend
false hope
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We don't want to give people false hopes.
false optimism (= optimism based on wrong ideas or information )
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In his speech he warned against false optimism about the immediate future.
false positive
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50% of the 170 compounds were judged to be carcinogenic, but some of these might be false positives.
false prophet (= someone whose claims about the future are not true )
false start
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After several false starts, the concert finally began.
false teeth
false
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His claims were later found to be false.
false
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There were a lot of false accusations throughout the trial.
false/unfounded
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He says that the rumours are completely unfounded.
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False rumors began to spread that troops were massing on the border.
lulled...into a false sense of security (= made people think they were safe when they were not )
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Earthquakes here are rare and this has lulled people into a false sense of security .
patently false/untrue
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To say that the proposal has no disadvantages at all is patently untrue.
wrong/false
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He was jailed for providing false information to the police.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Museums and galleries as false delay, he wrote.
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Our awareness of the euphemism is shown by our tendency to laugh at what we regard as false pretension.
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He had attacked Eliot for worshipping culture, which I considered about as false an imputation as could be imagined.
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Musicians, actors and celebrities all count as false gods. 13.
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Our hearer may even reject them outright as false .
completely
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This proved a difficult task as the story was completely false .
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These are serious charges that are wholly unfounded and completely false .
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Thunderstorms cause completely false indications of bearings, including the overhead.
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Most of his assumptions have proven to be completely false .
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Some people freeze up and look completely false .
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The report clearly shows that Opposition warnings about what would happen after the reforms have proved to be completely false .
patently
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Don't try and set up something that is quite patently false .
totally
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The impression you gave that I provided your reporter with new information following the meeting is totally false .
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A: No, they are totally false .
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Yet anyone who wishes to understand the latent determinants of human behaviour would be unwise to reject this excuse as totally false .
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But the end result still runs the risk of leaving the viewer with a totally false impression.
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The former might result in a totally false comparison with outside sources.
■ NOUN
accounting
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All three were charged with conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit forgery, and false accounting .
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Fone is charged with three offences of theft involving a total of more than £40,000 and two offences of false accounting .
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Mr Nadir faced trial in September on charges of theft and false accounting .
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Mr Walker and former finance director Wilfred Aquilina were also charged with two counts of false accounting relating to the thefts.
accusation
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There were a lot of false accusations throughout the trial....
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Witness Goosby had no reason to make false accusations , Avila said.
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Prime is connected with the trial before Pilate and false accusation .
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Supporters argue that the measure would provide care centers protection from false accusations .
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He had hurt her enough with his false accusations .
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His enemies had made false accusations against him and wanted to drag him through the mire.
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I knew Hertz Lipmann would have willingly made a false accusation against anyone, if the Party required it of him.
alarm
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But the patient was okay, it was a false alarm , please thank them and send them on their way.
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Several predictions have been issued, but all have been false alarms .
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Thankfully this is a false alarm .
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Businesses accounted for 469 of those false alarms , residences were blamed for 223 and 11 came from governmental locations.
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There have been several false alarms in the tabloids, but at the end of 1986 reporters thought they had a scoop.
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The top source of false alarms was Checkers Drive-In.
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The number of hits and false alarms for individual films is given in Table 4.4.
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The Tavares Fire Department also receives false alarms -- 211 last year.
assumption
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In human terms the reasoning which had been presented to him was filled with flaws and false assumptions .
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This can be shown to be a false assumption , however.
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It is the irreconcilable contradiction inevitable in humanism because of its false assumptions in constructing a world-view.
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He should not put words in my mouth, however, or make false assumptions .
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Because of these false assumptions , Labour's appeal is restricted.
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But the false assumption is that everybody can be reclassified as a wealth creator.
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You end up cutting the evidence to fit your theories, and making false assumptions .
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They are built on axioms that may or may not be universally true, and can carry false assumptions with them.
belief
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He feels much of the opposition is based on the false belief that the incinerator will also handle toxic waste.
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A false belief may nevertheless be justified.
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We can not argue straightforwardly that a false belief can not be justified.
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Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief .
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An alarming picture encapsulated a false belief .
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And they have led them under the false belief that a negotiated solution was seriously pursued.
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So the merger boom went on for a while, still fuelled by this false belief .
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Not all false beliefs are relevant in this sense.
claim
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Many asked for more clearly presented and detailed information with less false claims .
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This was long before Eastern Airlines fired him for moral turpitude and for making false claims about a medical background.
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He had also threatened to make false claims of homosexual advances.
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Insurance companies started hiring him to find stolen goods and investigate false claims .
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Why does not the Prime Minister address those issues of life and death instead of parading false claims about his Government?
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Editors also object to overblown or false claims .
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Clients often make false claims of cold-calling; sometimes so they might avoid paying for the shares they bought.
consciousness
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And it is unclear how certain individuals, namely Marxists, transcend false consciousness .
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For Marx and Engels the working class had nothing to lose but their chains of false consciousness .
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In short, their transgression was motivated by false consciousness .
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For them, too, it is simply ideology and false consciousness .
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In antiracist analyses the irrationality of popular or working-class racism is conceptualized primarily as a form of false consciousness .
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Both the bourgeois ideology and the proletarian false consciousness are products of particular social relations present in capitalism.
dawn
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The global fund in all probability will prove to be another false dawn for the poor.
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Tracers lit up the fog like a false dawn .
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It was a false dawn , replaced soon after by a now starless night that was blacker than the previous hours.
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The woman is much more emotionally exposed to the disappointments and false dawns .
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That proved to be a false dawn , as Moravcik's replacement, McNamara, was the one who scored.
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But we must beware of overconfidence - we have had false dawns before!
economy
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Using briefing only may be a false economy .
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It would be a false economy not to treat divers.
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It is false economy not to get the right expert, even though getting the right expert may be more expensive.
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From a point of view of commercial work, however, this is bad practice, and false economy .
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Buying less than the best is a false economy .
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Do not skimp on batteries, it is a false economy .
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Diane Chalmers, senior home care manager, says councillors and staff recognised that removing the service would be a false economy .
eyelash
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Everybody tried to take something - a scrap of clothing, a lock of hair, a false eyelash , a brooch.
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Anti-fog goggles are recommended for embarrassing facial hair or false eyelashes .
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The model came in with the cups of tea, still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes .
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Bleached hair, false eyelashes and fake nails are old-hat, according to the latest health and beauty survey.
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Apply false eyelashes and really catch some one's eye!
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Her hair, slightly shorter than his, earrings, make-up and false eyelashes are all perfectly in place.
god
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Spark has always had the facility to be silkily suave as she goes about examining our predilection for worshipping false gods .
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But those of us who understand history must shudder at his adulation of the false gods of isolationism and protectionism.
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Musicians, actors and celebrities all count as false gods . 13.
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Massachusetts laws forbade people to induce others to follow false gods , and this they accused Quakers of doing.
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Once you get too exclusive, too obsessed with a place, you are worshipping false gods .
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The Old Testament records them running after false gods , the gods of the nations round about them, whenever opportunity offered.
hope
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I hate unidentified corpses - can't help thinking of women and children, living and waiting in false hopes .
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When you care about a dear departed show, a highly promoted new episode offers a kind of false hope .
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No, that was a false hope .
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Ecstasy to despair to false hope , et cetera.
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But having given Labour false hopes , will the media now make sure that Labour suffers from false despair?
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The family and others also cling to these times of false hope .
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Now the couple had expected it was dead and we gave them false hope .
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Investors are so willing to believe in recovery around the corner that they will clutch at false hopes almost indefinitely.
identity
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Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards.
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Under a false identity , he's living it up in Florence, dining out with the aristocracy.
impression
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The call, the first by any network, created the false impression that Bush had won the general election.
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But he knew that people thought otherwise, and that their false impression was his own fault.
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Or was that a false impression , created by the odd circumstances of their unexpected arrival here?
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It made him uneasy to think that a false impression was the basis for his hiring.
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Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.
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Deceptive behaviors are those actions intended to create a false impression of reality.
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By the way, I really must correct a false impression that I inadvertently gave just now.
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It was one of the false impressions that collected around her.
imprisonment
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The rest included allegations of wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and loss of property.
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Lombardy was stopped and arrested on suspicion of rape by force; rape with a foreign object and false imprisonment .
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Was recently awarded £30,000 damages against Thames Valley Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment .
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If anyone prevents you from doing so, you can sue for false imprisonment .
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But she was spared from that ordeal when Anthony Bourgois pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment and carrying a knife.
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The boy admitted false imprisonment and wounding.
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An action of damages may be brought for false imprisonment . 3.
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He denies false imprisonment , assault and blackmail.
information
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Such automated systems would also be potentially vulnerable to false information from people or agents hoping to capitalize on their correlated behaviour.
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The panel also found that Gingrich gave it false information when questioned about the matter.
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The charges including disseminating false information and withholding information.
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Seven days later, Gingrich admitted violating House rules by, among other things, submitting false information to the ethics committee.
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Consumers could be committing fraud if they provide false information on a credit application form.
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But this, being a deliberative move to impart false information , would be a reversion to the linguistic.
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Then, when the ethics committee investigated those projects, Gingrich gave the panel false information , the speaker acknowledged.
modesty
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This was in no way false modesty - he considered engineering one of the highest possible callings.
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I say that with no false modesty .
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Miranda, while not vain, did not suffer from false modesty .
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It would be false modesty to fail to recognize that it is you that is selling...
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There is no false modesty here, no subtle, indirect swaggering; the author's honesty rings true.
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That was a fact she accepted without false modesty or pride.
move
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Any false starts or false moves will result in error and the telltale bugs.
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No regrets, no hesitation; there were no false moves left in me.
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One false move in the conduct of the attack will spell certain doom for White.
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Leicester are the sporting equivalent of those brave landmine engineers who operate in areas where one false move can destroy everything.
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From that day there was no appeal from the consequences of even one false move .
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A false move and the State would not hesitate to send him to the same grave as his father and grandfather.
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Then it happened, that one false move that a batsman never wants to make.
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He scarcely made a false move .
name
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At first, they may intend this as a joke, sometimes giving a false name .
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Letters, travel documents, counterfeit signatures, a history of false names .
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If you still have concerns about confidentiality, you can take the test using a false name - this is perfectly legal.
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Win had also used a false name through the years, standard practice for officers engaged in covert work.
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I gave him a false name .
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With these he could begin to construct the illustrated history of his subject, starting with a false name .
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She rang up to make an appointment with my receptionist, using a false name .
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After the address book came the false names .
passport
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He was provided with a false passport in the name of William Goode.
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McMullen unlawfully entered the United States in 1978 on a false passport .
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He was carrying a false passport when he arrived from London but was recognised during a routine check.
picture
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Tears running down her face, she put the eggs back in their nest a false picture of natural felicity.
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This is not an entirely false picture , but it is not the complete one.
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The term ideology is often used to suggest a distortion, a false picture of reality.
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The media are merely the messengers, sometimes further sensationalizing and then passing along the false picture that has been painted.
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You could say that a variation in tyre performance will paint a false picture of a car's worth.
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But to a large, and increasing, extent that is a false picture .
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First-team manager David Hughes believes, however, that this barren 12-month spell creates a false picture .
positive
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These subjects had comparatively low positive titres in 1978 and may have been false positives.
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Thus for every 80 correctly predicted we will have 20 false negatives and 200 false positives .
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By definition they are all high risk and there is thus no significance to the issue of false positives .
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But Salsburg wondered how many of these might be false positives .
pretences
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This statement represents the old doctrine in regard to obtaining property by false pretences , to which I shall advert presently.
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He argued that the old distinction between the offence of false pretences and larceny had been preserved.
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I felt as if I was there under false pretences .
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Old terminology such as larceny, larceny by a trick, false pretences and embezzlement were replaced by modern terms.
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I got into your office under false pretences , but there was no other way.
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He was only interested in himself and his business, and had married her under false pretences .
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He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences .
promise
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No fast talking, no false promises , and if combat ensues there's no quarter asked or given.
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Should not the right hon. Gentleman now apologise for the false promises that he made in 1991?
prophet
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There were too many false prophets in the world already without relying on gold-fish.
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A sign of a false prophet is a drawing away in independence from the main body of the church.
report
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Problems might arise when the false report is made via a telephone.
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Publication of false reports of Parliamentary proceedings and premature disclosure of committee proceedings have both constituted contempt.
representation
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She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration.
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Other allegations against the latter suggested a breach of a contractual duty of care, false representations and undue influence.
security
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But, encased in the false security of her new-found happiness, she had never guessed.
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The false security offered by a gang?
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He was not misled or lulled into a sense of false security or anything of that kind.
sense
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An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security.
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The entire procedure would give a false sense of security.
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They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security.
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But some people think too much emphasis is being put on duration, lulling investors into a false sense of comfort.
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Making a close relationship may lead to a false sense of self-sufficiency.
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The identification of apparent patterning amongst types and sub-groups of ornamental metalwork can easily induce a false sense of satisfaction.
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If Dunbar could be lulled first into a false sense of security, it might all go more satisfactorily.
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The day went so well, in fact, that we were all completely lulled into a false sense of security.
start
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Any false starts or false moves will result in error and the telltale bugs.
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After numerous false starts , attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start .
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After numerous false starts , we find our way to the National Forest boundary.
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On the first false start , the tape caught round some horses' necks.
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Narendra laughed and said that a few false starts were only to be expected.
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There were several false starts and fresh choices, but by ni-Frith they had three scrapes of a sort.
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So many false starts , blind alleys, postulates which decayed before the end of the argument.
statement
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Inside was a spoof tax return with the usual warnings about false statements .
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Punitive damages can be awarded when false statements are made maliciously.
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Similarly subsequent facts will not make a false statement true.
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The grand jury indicted Aronoff, R-Cincinnati, and Riffe, D-Wheelersburg, on two counts of filing a false statement .
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This individual is not required to show how he or she was injured by the false statements .
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A false statement is viewed as a lie regardless of the intent.
step
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And marriage, I should have thought, is a false step you must have been well warned against.
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A false step , a forgotten detail.
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Risking a false step in the bog, she sped over the path.
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In a way each admired the other's skill at living, while enjoying the odd false step .
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I knew that if I made the slightest false step he would leap at me.
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One false step and we would be down there too.
tooth
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And she can't be the only young girl in the school with a full set of false teeth .
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Should I have taken the false teeth ?
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He rummaged the bed - another fright, his life was full of them - for his false teeth .
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The officer was city-bred and educated, so that the false teeth appeared to him in a different light.
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This is rather a trivial example: if teeth were the only problem, senescence could be cured by false teeth.
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His lips were intensely smiling and his false teeth shone.
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Talk of false teeth in this setting?
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And indeed his mouth was empty; evidently he had removed his false teeth .
trade
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Three others alleged false trade descriptions.
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Three others accused the firm of false trade descriptions.
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In determining whether there is a false trade description the court looks at the situation as an ordinary purchaser would.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false dawn
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It was a false dawn , replaced soon after by a now starless night that was blacker than the previous hours.
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That proved to be a false dawn , as Moravcik's replacement, McNamara, was the one who scored.
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Tracers lit up the fog like a false dawn .
make false representations
under/on false pretences
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Merry Christmas,'' she said with false heartiness.
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Decide whether these statements are true or false .
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He gave false and misleading statements to the court.
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He gave a false name and address to the police.
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He gave the clerk a false name and address in case the police were looking for him.
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Her claims of being able to recall past lives were later proved false .
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Her face took on a look of false delight.
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Her smile and welcome seemed false .
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Her suitcase had a false bottom, containing 2 kilos of heroin.
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Many false assumptions were made about the planet Jupiter.
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My mother avoided visiting Bali on the quite false assumption that the place is full of tourists.
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Nearly a third of adults in the UK have false teeth.
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Please decide whether the following statements are true or false .
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Rosenberg had supplied a false name and address.
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She was heavily made up, with false eyelashes and bright red lipstick.
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The article gives a totally false impression of life in Russia today.
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The title gives a false impression of what the book is actually about.
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We were given false information about his background.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It did not disconcert Sly that he found himself addressing an audience who were all wearing false dingo ears.
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Taken at face value the words found sinister and can convey a false impression like some sort of second-rate horror movie.
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The personality itself can he divided into two parts: false personality and personality proper.
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These are serious charges that are wholly unfounded and completely false .
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With these he could begin to construct the illustrated history of his subject, starting with a false name.