Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as evidence " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 2 | Values less than 6.0 mg/l are considered normal and those exceeding 6.0 mg/l are regarded as evidence of a raised CRP in serum . |
| 3 | Only individuals can fill out questionnaires , be interviewed , respond to attitude scales , be observed , and so on , and yet , very often , these are used as evidence for , or descriptions of , the supra-individual phenomena to which we have just referred . |
| 4 | The famous palaeolithic paintings found in caves such as that at Lascaux in the Dordogne have been interpreted as evidence that , at least implicitly , people were operating 20,000 or more years ago with teleological intent in terms of past , present , and future . |
| 5 | The observation that paired-pulse facilitation is not altered after the induction of LTP has been interpreted as evidence for a postsynaptic modification in LTP on the assumption that facilitation in the hippocampus is presynaptic , and that an interaction between facilitation and LTP would be expected if the expression of the latter were also presynaptically mediated . |
| 6 | The interaction between arousal and retention interval has been interpreted as evidence for Walker 's action decrement theory ( Walker , 1958 ; Walker & Tarte , 1963 ) which assumes that memory traces require a period of consolidation which can be enhanced by arousal , but which initially inhibits access to the trace . |
| 7 | The gun had been produced as evidence . |
| 8 | This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage . |
| 9 | Experiments in which young salmon have been transferred from their stream of birth , to be released in another stream , have been used as evidence that salmon imprint on the smell of their river during a sensitive period just before they migrate downstream . |
| 10 | It is generally accepted that odours per se do not cause a risk of infection and it is doubtful whether nausea , sleeplessness , mental strain or depression , commonly suffered by people exposed to odours , would be regarded as evidence of prejudice to health , as they affect a person 's general well-being , rather than threaten a clinical disease . |
| 11 | In this instance the reader is concerned that marks or stamps the auditor made on a document in the course of preparing accounts could mistakenly be regarded as evidence of authentication when such had not in fact occurred . |
| 12 | From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories . |
| 13 | A fire , caused by a bolt of lightning at York Minster , can still be regarded as evidence of divine wrath at the appointment of a contentious bishop . |
| 14 | The following indicates what may be regarded as evidence for each performance criterion . |
| 15 | Such phrases as ‘ loss of temper ’ or ‘ heat of passion ’ are treated as useful synonyms , for which angry or apparently uncontrolled reactions may be treated as evidence . |
| 16 | This might be treated as evidence that Gibbon uses an abnormally large number of abstract nouns , but of course it can not , for we might then discover that a preponderance of abstract nouns is quite normal in the prose of Gibbon 's contemporaries , and that Gibbon 's language in this respect is not exceptional . |
| 17 | To gain information from sites and finds , they have to be treated as evidence , and information has to be deduced from them in much the same way as a detective uses forensic evidence . |
| 18 | It can not be claimed as evidence of their effectiveness . |
| 19 | The capitulation of the General Council on the 12 May , and its decision to call off the strike without any guarantees that those involved would not be victimized , might also be seen as evidence of failure . |
| 20 | The extension of ‘ privatization ’ could be seen as evidence for structural change — a ‘ rolling back ’ of the state . |
| 21 | It has been suggested that learner errors can be seen as evidence of learner achievement . |
| 22 | From outside the Carter camp it could be seen as evidence that the twosome are having trouble finding new songs . |
| 23 | If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment . |
| 24 | While the legislation is clearly to be seen as evidence of a government 's entitlement to legislate in connection with a national responsibility , it is also interpretable as evidence of the government 's impatience with local authorities . |
| 25 | They may be seen as evidence of the insidious creep of sport climbing ethics into the mountains , but used sparingly they eliminate an unwanted and unnecessary risk and cause less visual intrusion . |
| 26 | All this suggests that the institutions of more stable family patterns should not be seen as evidence of the success of an effort at ‘ social control ’ . |
| 27 | Many examples of animal behaviour can be seen as evidence supporting the assertion , ‘ Animals are designed so as best to fulfil the function for which they were intended ’ . |
| 28 | This could be seen as evidence that there is a level of automatic syntactic processing which is not always used in sentence comprehension . |
| 29 | Although this could be seen as evidence that subjective risk was not present for this subject , it could equally be regarded as a self presentational bias on the part of the subject who may have felt that feeling risk would imply dangerous driving . |
| 30 | If we are not to infer from Anderson 's breach of Grice 's Co-operative Principle that he is deliberately being rude ( unlikely , when McKendrick is a complete stranger to him ) then it is most likely to be seen as evidence of his vagueness or , less favourably , his self-centredness . |