Example sentences of "borne out [prep] the facts " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 2 | This is a very appealing theory but scarcely seems to be borne out by the facts ; after all , we dream about all sorts of things which in no way do we wish to experience in real life . |
| 3 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 4 | It was generally agreed that republics were now much more likely than monarchies to use them ; and this belief seems to be borne out by the facts . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |