Example sentences of "not borne out by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was assumed by most American policy-makers that the Soviet Union possessed the forces to fulfil a rapid occupation of Manchuria and Korea but this was not borne out by the course of events . |
| 2 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 3 | This , as we have seen , is simply not borne out by the facts . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the predictions of this very simple hypothesis were not borne out by the facts of subsequent experience . |
| 5 | Mr Lamont claimed , in an optimistic message to the nation , that the ‘ self-denigrating myths ’ of Britain 's decline as an industrial nation were not borne out by the truth . |