Example sentences of "borne [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 | This is a purely theoretical stance used by economists not borne out by practical experience of how systems will work . |
| 3 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As we shall see , this prediction is being borne out by current work on the visual cortex . |
| 6 | The idea that ‘ the youth of today ’ are exceptionally ill-mannered is not borne out by political canvassing . |
| 7 | But her account is still an anecdotal one , and has not always been borne out by empirical research . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The owners ' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This has been overwhelmingly borne out by clinical psychoanalytic investigations of the id . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |