Example sentences of "bear out by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her accusation was borne out by a driver at Tonbridge who contradicted the guard 's timetable advice . |
| 3 | Their suspicions were borne out by a careful analysis of six different tumours ; in each case the viral promotor turned out , as expected , to have inserted itself next to the proto-oncogene myc . |
| 4 | That nurture is more important than nature seems to be borne out by a study published in Nature in 1989 . |
| 5 | That this was essentially as liberal a vote as the wording permitted , for legal abortion at home , is borne out by a national opinion survey carried out before the election for the Irish Sunday Press . |
| 6 | This finding is borne out by a study by Weinrich-Haste ( 1986 ) which found that , while some subjects were rated by schoolchildren and undergraduates as definitely masculine , and some as neutral , none was rated as definitely feminine : a finding which suggests that the arts/science divide is not a symmetrical feminine/masculine divide , but one which is distinctly asymmetrical . |
| 7 | This is borne out by a quick look at the Apple Annual Report : in 1991 , Apple 's profit margin the US was a pathetic 0.25 per cent ( again , at operating profit level ) . |
| 8 | The relative decline in the importance of class is borne out by a survey of voters in the 1983 election ( Table 5.5 ) . |
| 9 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 10 | This may sound utopian , but it has been borne out by the experience of existing telecottages . |
| 11 | This is certainly borne out by the World Boxing Council ratings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | According to my watch it was already after four o'clock , a rotten piece of information borne out by the angle of the sun . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | That this is so is borne out by the fact that seaside towns with golf links handy have gone ahead by leaps and bounds . ’ |
| 20 | The argument that these spontaneous housing settlements are a superior form of accommodation to the city slums is borne out by the consolidation that takes place in low-income settlements . |
| 21 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 22 | Railways somehow symbolized the fact that Americans never did anything by halves , and this was more than borne out by the architecture of American railway stations . |
| 23 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 24 | The fact that the consultative process described serves to enhance , rather than hinder , the task of school management is borne out by the school 's successful introduction over the last few years of development planning . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | This is borne out by the third type of managerialist study — that of the role of external ‘ pressure groups ’ in local politics . |
| 27 | Robert Burns called John Tennant , ‘ a worthy , intelligent farmer , my father 's friend and my own ’ and his regard is borne out by the fact that when he was offered tenancy of Ellisland Farm , Dumfries , it was to John Tennant he turned for advice ; they travelled together to the farm and after an inspection , the older man recommended it to his young friend . |
| 28 | This spread of interest is very much borne out by the selection of numbers given to each of the tenors where Tauber has more semi-serious and operatic numbers to sing than his tow seniors . |
| 29 | Much of the significance of ancient sites comes from their use for ritual purposes , and this is borne out by the survivals of ancient traditions . |
| 30 | And this is borne out by the fact that although the outward forms of creatures can be bred into a most amazing degree of variety , as we find in the domestic dog , the inner instincts remain very much the same . |