Example sentences of "[art] evidence " in BNC.

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1 Some have been living for a disconcertingly long time in museums ; but once doubted , the evidence of inadequacy in a fake is quite often soon in coming .
2 When it does , it tends to be a reaction to perceived injustice , such as internment without trial , or the conviction of a son by a sole judge in a trial held in total secrecy and on the evidence of unseen witnesses , or a simple case of one 's house being badly mauled by careless soldiers searching for arms .
3 ‘ They 'll soon find the evidence they need , once they know where to look . ’
4 The evidence in this extract is conclusive , and it can therefore be definitively stated that Agatha Christie 's source for the character of Hercule Poirot was Speke , Parot .
5 On the evidence I 've seen so far I rather doubt that . ’
6 Piecing together the evidence from the incident with the K6E pilot , it seems almost certain that the pilot blacked out during the recovery .
7 ‘ All my work is the evidence of a life , and not the life itself . ’
8 Why this preoccupation with death ( if such a word is allowable on the evidence of but one piece ) ?
9 On the evidence of his bathroom mirror , he looked better too .
10 Not , the constructivist argues , by the enrichment of perceptual input ( in any case the evidence tells us that this is already rich ) : only through action itself .
11 Indeed , the evidence we have from cognitive psychology of the overwhelming predominance of the unconscious over the conscious parts of mental processes suggests that consciousness may be as peripheral to the central information processing activities of the brain as the whiteness of this paper is marginal to the semantic content of the words printed on it , which are telling you what I think about the mind .
12 The Department of National Savings ( form SB4 obtainable at Post Offices ) and building societies will pay out amounts up to £5,000 on the evidence of the death certificate , although they are not bound to until the grant of probate or letters of administration have been issued .
13 This is what most owners say when confronted by cherished furnishings , door frames or personal items , such as books or the remote control for the TV , that have been torn to shreds by beloved Rover in their absence , or nearly as distressing the evidence of his lack of toilet control .
14 Ill-defined regions of the data , rational equations , unjustified polynomial fits ( particularly for extrapolations ) , failure to examine data at low X and Y values sufficiently , reversing X and Y values , and as the manual puts it , ‘ trusting numbers rather than the evidence of your own eyes ’ are some others .
15 As early as 1921 , the Newbolt Report , summarizing the evidence of Professor Ernest de Sélincourt , expressed deep unease about the American approach to literary research :
16 To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page .
17 If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed .
18 Scores of Tiananmen 's paving stones have been replaced to remove the evidence of anti-government messages .
19 Between the embarrassment of frank sleaziness , the vicious campaigns of Il Sabato against Mr De Mita ( then a serving prime minister ) and the evidence of its own eyes , the Italian church began distancing itself from both Communion and Liberation and Mr Sbardella .
20 Under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 , judges must be satisfied that the child is of sufficient intelligence to justify the reception of the evidence and understands the duty of telling the truth .
21 In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five .
22 Conventional wisdom is that Tootal will add management expertise to Coats , but on the evidence of the first half neither is skilled at controlling working capital .
23 Too often the evidence of devilish intent was received with disbelief or electorally inspired inaction ( though Winston , waiting in the wings , gobbled it up ) .
24 But where is the evidence for that ?
25 A decade after the Scarman report on Brixton and on the evidence from our more troubled communities , this is no time for any of us to strike traditional postures .
26 Very few have been evaluated , and the evidence is largely anecdotal , he said .
27 People know the evidence of their pockets and are unlikely to be easily persauded that Mrs Thatcher 's Britain has been , or has yet become , the economic disaster area which Mr Kinnock depicted .
28 Evaluating the evidence , it demonstrated substantial storage by Capricorn of works of art on the premises in London .
29 The evidence showed , according to Mr Craven , that wherever individual party members were given the one member , one vote opportunity to voice their views , they rejected the hard left .
30 Mr Justice Roch said the court would start early at 10am and adjourn for 30 minutes at hourly intervals to allow the interpreters to rest and to ensure the defendant had understood the evidence .
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