Example sentences of "borne out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction . |
| 2 | That was clearly borne out at the dispersal of the Mr and Mrs R E White 's Woodhayne herd where the talk of the sale was a 1000gns bid for a nine month old heifer calf . |
| 3 | This impression is borne out on close acquaintance , there being little variation in contour on the wide top . |
| 4 | The old adage that a bad workman always blames his tools is borne out on many a windsurfing beach . |
| 5 | This was borne out on the Wednesday when insurgent soldiers pressed the Soviet to issue an order — Order No. 1 — which severely circumscribed the authority of officers both by sanctioning the election of soldiers ' committees with control over weapons and by laying down that officers ' orders were to be subject to the Soviet 's approval . |
| 6 | That claim has not been borne out for today 's designs , but such contracts can not easily be broken . |
| 7 | This has been borne out to an extent by recent research into teacher stress . |
| 8 | The immediate assumption is that there is a chemical communication between leaf and branch all over the tree , and this possibility is borne out to some degree by the character of leaf and caterpillar battles in other species . |
| 9 | During the forties and early fifties these , plus the romantic songs evoked by wartime partings , loss and refindings , found a worthy competitor in the more recent folk-songs of America , which were borne out of economic collapse ( on the white hand ) , and subservience and racialism ( on the black ) . |
| 10 | This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The new 1.8 engine has been borne out of the five-door 's 1.6 by lengthening the stroke . |
| 13 | The title was then , as it still is now , largely a misnomer borne out of optimism for a nationwide club membership of deaf people . |
| 14 | Poll tax panic prompted this change — a change borne out of short-term electoral desperation . |
| 15 | ‘ I think this was probably borne out of the insecurity of inexperience . |
| 16 | After 1870 , their attention switched to believing that Germany was a more dangerous antagonist , a belief which was borne out until 1945 . |
| 17 | This may sound utopian , but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages . |
| 18 | This is certainly borne out by the World Boxing Council ratings . |
| 19 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 20 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 21 | That amateurism was both a code of ethics and a system of status was borne out by the fact that ‘ amateur ’ was often used in conjunction with ‘ gentleman ’ . |
| 22 | The theory would appear to be borne out by his subsequent record : only one further final appearance , at Los Angeles , and eight losses to players ranked below him on the computer . |
| 23 | He has consistently denied that most British Muslims support Iran 's fatwa ( religious edict ) — a belief borne out by a BBC2 survey for the Public Eye programme which showed only 28 per cent of British Muslims in favour . |
| 24 | Her accusation was borne out by a driver at Tonbridge who contradicted the guard 's timetable advice . |
| 25 | According to my watch it was already after four o'clock , a rotten piece of information borne out by the angle of the sun . |
| 26 | This was also borne out by the inclusion of catalogues at the end of the book , looking very much like contributions from various nurseries and it is evident that those recommending the work did so with an eye to business . |
| 27 | CAC sees itself as part of the community of East Manchester and this is borne out by the fact that the company is now employing the third generation of workers from local families . |
| 28 | Mr Grayson replied : ‘ If we can assume that the same degree of care is taken in all countries showing — and I think it is true , certainly , of Switzerland and West Germany — beech observations , then you could certainly say that the health of beech trees reflected in crown condition must be borne out by observation . ’ |
| 29 | MacKinnon 's further suggestion that the social life of the orang-utan could resemble that of early arboreal ape ancestors and to antedate the more terrestrial adaptations of the chimpanzee and gorilla seem borne out by the most recent studies . |
| 30 | Interest in the GCR never seems to wane , borne out by the fact that copies of our first volume have all been sold , and correspondence from readers invariably asks for more . |