Example sentences of "[is] bear out [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physicists know only too well from studying crystalline materials that an understanding of solid-state physics is borne out of a sure knowledge of atomic structure and this has come traditionally from X-ray crystallography . |
| 2 | The incidence of high rates of non-returners is borne out in a Far Eastern Economic Review report which suggested that out of the 50,000 scholars sent abroad since 1978 , at the start of the reform decade , only 20,000 have returned . |
| 3 | That this was essentially as liberal a vote as the wording permitted , for legal abortion at home , is borne out by a national opinion survey carried out before the election for the Irish Sunday Press . |
| 4 | This is borne out by a quick look at the Apple Annual Report : in 1991 , Apple 's profit margin the US was a pathetic 0.25 per cent ( again , at operating profit level ) . |
| 5 | Our strong commitment to the quality of the teaching and learning experience offered to students is borne out by the increasing percentage of first class and upper second class degrees awarded . |
| 6 | This is borne out by the 1991 figures which tell us that out of eight fatalities , half involved the tractor . |
| 7 | Though the operation of the principles embodied in these generalizations is borne out by the vast majority of the careers of scholars listed in the biographical dictionaries who came to maturity after the beginning of the sixteenth century , both generalizations require some degree of qualification . |
| 8 | The logic of TGAT , however , and its ten levels of attainment , suggests that alternative strategies are open to us if we care to use them ; and this is borne out by the small print of Circular 5/89 , which stresses that the keystages themselves are to be understood with reference to the pupils ' average ages , so that a pupil may ‘ be taught with another age group for one or more subject areas where appropriate … while remaining with his or her peer group for other subjects . ’ |
| 9 | This is borne out by the third type of managerialist study — that of the role of external ‘ pressure groups ’ in local politics . |
| 10 | So it is clear that the two kinds of productivity — children and intellectual achievements — can be combined , as is borne out by the subsequent careers of the forty two students who matriculated in 1966 and who answered the questionnaire . |
| 11 | The genetic influence is borne out by the characteristic temperaments of various breeds . |
| 12 | There is no English authority on the meaning of this expression ; however , most commentators agree that it is likely to be given a wide interpretation by the courts , and this is borne out by the Scottish case of McCrone v Boots Farm Supplies Ltd 1981 SLT 103 . |
| 13 | But the general truth of the picture is borne out by the local studies that have been done . |