Example sentences of "bear [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the torch which Reagan and Thatcher had lit being borne on by other , apparently unstoppable , hands , while the newer economies , like Walesa 's Poland , flocked to its light . |
| 2 | It was in weight two hundred pounds ; the traine and parts thereof borne up by six dukes . |
| 3 | This is a purely theoretical stance used by economists not borne out by practical experience of how systems will work . |
| 4 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 5 | The validity of this approach has been borne out by other studies combining immunocytochemistry with DNA sequencing that have found accumulation of protein to be invariably associated with the presence of a mutant p53 allele . |
| 6 | As we shall see , this prediction is being borne out by current work on the visual cortex . |
| 7 | The idea that ‘ the youth of today ’ are exceptionally ill-mannered is not borne out by political canvassing . |
| 8 | But her account is still an anecdotal one , and has not always been borne out by empirical research . |
| 9 | Corinth on the other hand had kept its vase-painting on a small scale ; and the tradition of an early Corinthian school of painters is borne out by certain vase-paintings which stand aside from the rest : not in scale ( indeed they are often miniature work ) but in composition and colour . |
| 10 | The owners ' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts . |
| 11 | According to Eric Midwinter , former director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing , ‘ Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race or sex and not borne out by medical evidence . ’ |
| 12 | The first was that the estimates of risk of death from cancer which are used to predict for radiation work — mainly from A-bomb victims — seem to be borne out by these early results . |
| 13 | This assumption is not borne out by any evidence — after all , the dolphins have no perceivable technology — but it is fair to guess that at least some intelligent species will develop an advanced technology . |
| 14 | That the traditional shape of the old horseman 's day was a continuation of the much older discipline submitted to by the ox-driver and the ploughman is borne out by some of the terms that still survive in Suffolk . |
| 15 | As the report itself makes clear , ‘ statistical comparisons serve as a pointer only to possible differences in service efficiency which may or may not be borne out by further investigations ’ . |
| 16 | It is not clear how this estimate was reached or what the terms of reference were , but it is an indicative view borne out by widespread apathy among students for their lessons . |
| 17 | This has been overwhelmingly borne out by clinical psychoanalytic investigations of the id . |
| 18 | ( 1983 ) have argued that maps based on the European Air Chemistry Network may be misleading in several respects , such as in failing adequately to show the pattern of time variations over the years or the large degree of uncertainty attaching to individual contours , and assuming a geographical homogeneity which is not borne out by detailed calculations with data taken from adjacent sites . |
| 19 | British electronics manufacturers are the most acquisitive in Europe , a fact borne out by last month 's £230 million purchase by ICL of Finnish computer company Nokia Data . |
| 20 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |