Example sentences of "[verb] as [adj] evidence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pyramids of paper have been piled up on the subject of faunal provinces in the fossil record , but very few of them stand up to critical examination and even the latest symposium on the subject has produced very little that can be regarded as concrete evidence . |
| 2 | By itself this statement , unequivocal though it was , could not be regarded as decisive evidence . |
| 3 | Tolstoy has assumed , in The Minister and the Massacres and elsewhere , that the BGS who originate the signal was Brig Low ( now Lord Aldington ) , and ha used the phrase " verbal directive from Macmillan to Corps Command as important evidence to support his theory that at the 13 May meeting Macmillan had " initiated " moves to hand back the Cossacks , and had in effect used his political authority to " direct " 5 Corps to this end . |
| 4 | In contemporary terms , therefore , his diagnoses were too inexact to stand as definitive evidence for ( or against ) a connection between creativity and madness , as we would now construe it . |
| 5 | But these differences reflect different ideas of what counts as relevant evidence ; and much of the literature is a debate on evidence and the proper and improper uses of techniques for manipulating data . |
| 6 | This still leaves open the question of what counts as sound evidence , and this in turn leads to a central theme of this book : ‘ How can we collect sound evidence about the social world that can be used to increase our understanding of that world ? ’ |
| 7 | Instead , there were various individuals — Ferdinand , Isabella and their councillors — and the fact that they did not want the unification of Spain and the Hapsburg lands is presented as decisive evidence against Braudel 's view . |
| 8 | The growth in pre-school services , which in no way matches parental demand , might be seen as clear evidence that some of the family 's functions in child-rearing , even in the earliest years , are being taken over by professionals ( e.g. nursery teachers and nursery nurses ) and other ‘ specialist ’ child carers ( e.g. child minders ) . |
| 9 | It is vital that our site work and written reports are of the highest standards because if there were a transgression they may be used as legal evidence . ’ |
| 10 | The Act also sought to restrict the extent to which a woman 's prior sexual history could be used as admissible evidence in court , thus indirectly affecting the material available to the press to publish . |
| 11 | There are several examples in the book where still images are used at key moments in the drama as part of the dramatic fiction , notably " The Giant Awakes " ( Chapter 5 ) , where the images are used as photographic evidence . |
| 12 | The attacks did not constitute the first manifestations of organised racist aggression but the events were used as supporting evidence for the claims of the anti-immigration lobby . |
| 13 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 14 | The victory of Kennett , who was not considered by many to be the state 's most able or charismatic politician , was interpreted as clear evidence of massive dissatisfaction with the ALP , which had governed the state for the last 10 years , and was alleged to have overseen serious financial mismanagement under both Kirner and her predecessor John Cain . |
| 15 | They included an ugly marble penstand presented by the retiring Prime Minister which George never used but displayed as proud evidence of the biggest mistake a civil servant can achieve : becoming too identified with a political figure . |
| 16 | They do not in themselves betoken infection , although they can be taken as indirect evidence of infection in many cases . |
| 17 | but it is primary evidence and I think as primary evidence it has an extra value to the child 's records , and to the school 's records , over and beyond what |