Example sentences of "[be] [verb] as evidence " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The following indicates what may be regarded as evidence for each performance criterion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It can not be claimed as evidence of their effectiveness . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The extension of ‘ privatization ’ could be seen as evidence for structural change — a ‘ rolling back ’ of the state . |
| 12 | It has been suggested that learner errors can be seen as evidence of learner achievement . |
| 13 | From outside the Carter camp it could be seen as evidence that the twosome are having trouble finding new songs . |
| 14 | If they then still chose to seek engineering jobs , this could be seen as evidence of commitment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | This could be seen as evidence that there is a level of automatic syntactic processing which is not always used in sentence comprehension . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The effect can also be interpreted as evidence that training courses in sign language for those over the age of 30 must be structured very differently , and there is no doubt that we need to consider the learning requirements of this group much more carefully . |
| 23 | The appearance of the Scottish document at the same time as the appearance of the national curriculum legislation in England and Wales can be interpreted as evidence of the government 's determination to bring the educational system of Scotland into close alignment with that of England and Wales and to exercise strong control over what that educational system is expected to deliver . |
| 24 | To summarize this part of the argument , it can be said that the contradictions found in these forty interviews between housework satisfaction patterns and answers to the question ‘ Do you like housework ? ’ may be interpreted as evidence of class-differentiated linguistic styles and norms of feminine domesticity . |
| 25 | On the contrary , evidence indicates that disease specific survival rates quoted in uncontrolled trials can not be interpreted as evidence of therapeutic benefit . |
| 26 | The significantly higher prevalence in siblings than among either parents ( χ 2 1 2 =5.5 , p=0.019 ) or children ( χ 2 1 2 =10.7 , p= 0.001 ) could be interpreted as evidence for an environmental or recessive genetic contribution to Crohn 's disease . |
| 27 | For Engels , therefore , the study of systems of kin terms revealed previously existing systems of consanguinity and could be used as evidence for the history of kinship and social organization . |
| 28 | The pattern revealed by kinship terms can not therefore be used as evidence of marriage systems in the way that Morgan believed . |
| 29 | Thus the finding of a series of coins terminating in about 150 BC could not be used as evidence that the occupation of a site ceased in about that year , for even if occupation had continued for another hundred years , no other coins would have been available to be used and lost . |
| 30 | If the new test is found to correlate highly with an old , established test , this may be used as evidence in favour of validity . |