Example sentences of "[pron] [be] some evidence " in BNC.

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1 So if there 's some evidence of a whacking great crack on his head … and if this had been deliberately inflicted rather than accidentally incurred … about seven hours ago , say …
2 The fires have been burning in the orchards this weekend.It was all part of ancient rites to ensure a good crop of cider apples.And there 's some evidence that it really works.Richard Barnett reports :
3 I would certainly I would certainly hope that men would become much less erm nervous and ashamed about expressing emotion erm and I would certainly hope that erm men learn as much as women do about erm how to look after children and how to bring them up , and I think there 's some evidence that that actually is happening .
4 This is , yes , contact that , this is important , because it 's clearly that there is an increase , there 's some evidence of an increase of these things as a sort of little tail end thing , it would have been perfectly good story but quite the other way round .
5 But there is some evidence that the gap is closing .
6 So on unemployment there is some evidence of a slight tendency for the public to follow the lead of the parties and the media but it was a very slight adjustment of public attitudes .
7 Indeed there is some evidence that only with the Argentine invasion of the Falklands and the deaths of British servicemen did the ‘ Fortress Falklands ’ policy emerge .
8 There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . '
9 There is some evidence that the concentration of acid in the stomach is highest in the night and this might explain why the pain associated with excess gastric acid is most marked at night and can wake you then .
10 There is some evidence that high-protein foods ( fish , meat , etc. ) and caffeine-containing drinks ( coffee , tea ) are best taken in the morning and that a light snack rich in carbohydrates ( fruit juice and dessert ) is best for supper ; caffeine-containing drinks should be avoided just before sleep .
11 At first sight there is some evidence to support this sort of assumption .
12 We can suggest that the eye spots scare off predators , and there is some evidence that this is so .
13 There is some evidence that highly educated people recover more quickly from stroke , since they are probably used to accessing more pathways .
14 Then it must have changed its mind , and started to grow in two directions , a narrower tube into the ‘ mouthpiece ’ and a broader one into the ‘ horn ’ , and there is some evidence that the ‘ horn ’ end continued to get wider and longer .
15 On the other hand , unless there is some evidence of the existence of God then positive arguments about the need to trust a Deity become negative arguments about credulous and uncritical behaviour .
16 We do at times use ‘ belief in ’ language to mean something similar to ‘ belief that ’ — as in ‘ I believe in ghosts ’ , which surely includes the idea , ‘ I believe that there is some evidence ghosts exist ’ .
17 There is some evidence to show that the poverty caused by the economic crises of the early 1980s has drawn more women into the labour force .
18 The Department of Health has issued a caution to women who are , or are about to become pregnant that there is some evidence from abroad , in women taking huge supplementary doses , to suggest that high levels of Vit .
19 Produce pieces of writing in which there is a rudimentary attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by means of a title and paragraphs or verses ; in which sentence punctuation ( capital letters , full stops , question marks and exclamation marks ) is generally accurately used ; and in which there is some evidence of an ability to set out and punctuate any direct speech in a way that makes meaning clear to the reader .
20 Again , Thompson and Spencer suggest that intense stimuli habituate only slowly but there is some evidence that they might acquire latent inhibition especially readily , ( Crowell and Anderson 1972 ; Lantz 1976 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ) .
21 There is some evidence to suggest that this difference is critical .
22 There is some evidence to suggest that among the important determinants should be numbered the complexity of the stimuli ( Ellis and Muller 1964 ) , whether or not the stimuli look like recognizable objects ( Ellis , Muller , and Tosti 1966 ) , and the extent to which the labels match critical features of the stimuli ( Segal 1964 ) .
23 There is some evidence that the sexually transmitted form of hepatitis is more likely to lead to liver damage than that passed on by means of blood products .
24 There is some evidence that wild populations of mice have , in the past , gone extinct through epidemics of t genes .
25 There is some evidence to support this theory .
26 There is some evidence that transitory dampness can occur , possibly due to this condensation , in a small number of dwellings , but there is no evidence that it has led to rot .
27 There is some evidence that these were originally connected to his grandson Frederick II , and that by the mysterious process of collective imagination and tradition , they became drawn to the more powerful figure of Barbarossa .
28 This is around three times the average dose in the UK , and there is some evidence of an increase in cancer incidence .
29 In addition , there is some evidence that thiazide diuretic agents reduce tissue sensitivity to insulin ( Hicks et al , 1973 ) , accelerate the lack of insulin in the prediabetic subject ( Weller & Borondy , 1965 ) and possibly reduce pancreatic insulin secretion ( Shapiro et al , 1961 ) .
30 It should be noted that there is some evidence from two studies that mean levels of serum cholesterol are higher in subjects with just impaired glucose tolerance than age-matched controls ( Ostrander et al , 1980 ; Yano et al , 1982 ) .
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