Example sentences of "borne out by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea that people enter care ‘ wilfully ’ or ‘ inappropriately ’ enter institutional care does not seem to be borne out by the available data . |
| 2 | This is borne out by the 1991 figures which tell us that out of eight fatalities , half involved the tractor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This belief was borne out by the following facts : |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | When they did use credit , it tended to be HP ( again borne out by the small number of West Indians interviewed for the main survey ) , and they knew a fair amount about their rights in an HP transaction , though they felt that the language of the agreements should be simpler to understand . |
| 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 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 9 | The genetic influence is borne out by the characteristic temperaments of various breeds . |
| 10 | But this pattern is not always borne out by the ethnographic evidence . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This is borne out by the third type of managerialist study — that of the role of external ‘ pressure groups ’ in local politics . |
| 13 | The Marxist-Leninist interpretation of 1917 , moreover , seems to Soviet historians to have been borne out by the whole sweep of the history of the USSR . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the general truth of the picture is borne out by the local studies that have been done . |