Example sentences of "be bear [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 2 | The owners ' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts . |
| 3 | But her account is still an anecdotal one , and has not always been borne out by empirical research . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As we shall see , this prediction is being borne out by current work on the visual cortex . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |