Example sentences of "[was/were] evidence [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Although there was evidence of awareness of the need to adapt training programmes rather than simply abandon them , there was also evidence of lack of any systematic in-service training , justified by inability to employ methods that depend on staff mobility :
2 However , all deaths and most of the considerable arterial damage occurred where pressures were uncontrolled , poorly controlled , or treatment was delayed until there was evidence of organ damage , largely because aggressive prescription of tolerable drugs only gradually became accepted practice in the late 1960s and early 1970s .
3 Cryptosporidium was found on villous , not crypt , epithelium ( Fig 4b ) and there was evidence of brush border effacement at sites of attachment ( Fig 4c ) .
4 This time there was evidence of occupation — the thin , reed-like sound of a young child 's voice and the discernibly laboured breathing of a man in deep slumber .
5 For a westerner entering this harsh , insected and vipered landscape , a small sanctuary of parterres and walkways and pergolas and gravelled paths and granite crazy paving , was evidence of faith .
6 Bushes had been used as toilets , and there was evidence of drug abuse .
7 Police have said there was evidence of drug taking at the £17-a-head event , including discarded packets of white powder and some cannabis resin , but there were no arrests for drugs .
8 On the downside there was evidence of polarisation between fundholders and non-fundholders .
9 There was evidence of volume ‘ causing ’ volatility in the NYSE Composite , but not in the S&P500 .
10 NRA Thames Region spokeswoman Sharon Bolton said : ‘ We had a call late on Sunday night and it was too dark to do anything so we went down on Monday morning and although there was evidence of oil there was not a sufficient amount for concern .
11 Thus , he pronounced against the rule that a man could not be liable for the rape of his concubine , stating that concubinage was evidence of consent , but no more than this since the woman could withdraw from cohabitation and thus withdraw her consent .
12 Wickham asked whether there was evidence of fraud .
13 The Central North Side as a whole was , by the 1980s , represented by the Central North Side Neighborhood Council ( CNSNC ) but there was evidence of tension between the young people brought up in the area for whom there were slim prospects of employment ( levels of unemployment consistently outstripped the city average ) and householders involved in revitalisation .
14 All chemotherapeutic drugs were given on four consecutive days at four week intervals for a total of six months or until there was evidence of tumour progression .
15 In addition , there was evidence of organization amongst pro-Syrian and pro-Iraqi Ba'ath activists .
16 Subsequently , however , they appear to suggest that the police would be unlikely to pursue such a complaint unless there was evidence of injury .
17 The offender had a degree of responsibility for the victim , there was evidence of planning and the victim , while not as young as some victims , was only 13 .
18 He argued that since there was evidence of market failure ( Chapter 2 ) and public sector failure ( Chapter 3 ) it was logical to expect there to be room for a third kind of organisation that served purposes which public and market institutions failed to do .
19 There was evidence of bomb damage everywhere and with the blackout and dusk falling , the prospect was less than pleasing .
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