Example sentences of "evidence to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This acquisition of special knowledge meant that when I was called to give evidence to the Advisory Council on Drug Abuse ( chaired by Baroness Wooton ) on the use of cannabis , I was perhaps more inclined to dwell on the symbolic dangers attributed to its use than on any alleged physical harm , simply because I was now aware that any reality in relation to cannabis use was more complex than could be contained in some easy binary of social value — medical debilitation . |
| 2 | Even in death he is willing to work at the vine ( the biblical symbol of the Chosen People ) , suggesting in ‘ Credo ’ that the work , however unlikely it appears , is going on ; ‘ the holy promised land ’ is being peopled : ‘ the feet of fierce or humble priests trample out the green ’ ; he among them , despite putative evidence to the contrary . |
| 3 | But it is hard to fit the evidence to any other conclusion . |
| 4 | Yet what such a comic ploy demands is , precisely , performers capable of representing stereotypes ; and , whatever the evidence to the contrary , that is where the true talent of the Pythonites lay . |
| 5 | Mr Georgiadis said much of Mr Makallah 's evidence to the inquest had been lies — particularly details on three important issues : Mr Makallah claimed he could not drive , yet other witnesses claimed to have been driven by him ; he denied telling a camp site proprietor that Miss Ward was definitely not killed by wild animals ; and he covered up how he knew her jeep did not have four-wheel drive . |
| 6 | The Italian team gave evidence to an FIA tribunal in Paris last Thursday . |
| 7 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 8 | In his evidence to the Committee , Keynes identified seven possible classes of remedy for depression , and assured his colleagues that practically all of them were of some value . |
| 9 | His chapter on the post-1857 situation is confined to a charting exercise in which the context provided is often misleading ( married women 's participation in the labour market did not rise rapidly in the interwar years ) , and in which the facts are sometimes shaky ( not all working-class women were opposed to divorce in the early part of the century ; the Women 's Co-operative Guild gave evidence to the 1909 Royal Commission in favour of it ) . |
| 10 | However , Sir Anthony stresses that , almost without exception , those who gave their evidence to the investigation did so with ‘ conscientiousness , care , dignity and with a measure of frankness wholly to be admired ’ . |
| 11 | Lord Young has offered to give evidence to the Public Accounts Committee , which usually takes evidence from civil servants only . |
| 12 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 13 | All three jockeys gave evidence to the stewards , who , after hearing from the betting intelligence officer , accepted their explanations and took no further action . |
| 14 | ‘ If there is evidence to the contrary , then the National Executive Committee will act . |
| 15 | NatWest 's evidence to the committee , signed by Lord Alexander and his chief executive Tom Frost , says inspectors should ‘ complete their inquiries independently , indicating what are their findings of fact , but not pass judgment by drawing conclusions ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The cost of polluting the environment is not recognized by the market mechanism , ’ the Institution of Electrical Engineers remarked drily in its written evidence to the House Energy Committee hearings on the greenhouse effect and its implications for energy policy . |
| 17 | Only a few days later , in evidence to a parliamentary committee , he had the temerity to recommend controls on mortgage lending — in direct conflict with present government policy . |
| 18 | These truths ‘ owe their clearness and evidence to their being thus imprinted . |
| 19 | Scientific examination adds another dimension of evidence to authenticity studies which , taken together with the art historical evidence , can allow us to make an attribution with much more confidence . |
| 20 | In their evidence to the Criminal Law Revision Committee , the Royal College of Psychiatrists pressed for legal recognition of these wider social and situational factors . |
| 21 | Enough survives today to give a compelling impression of the extent to which the crown supplied visual evidence to its subjects of the splendour of Scottish monarchy ; the buildings may be small-scale by comparison with those of wealthier kings , but they are also lovely , and imposing , and above all utterly fashionable . |
| 22 | Frederick Montague gave evidence to the Commissioners that regarders and agisters were not appointed in Bere Porchester Forest , and that there was no supervision of rights of common there . |
| 23 | Frederick Montague gave evidence to the Commissioners that no Court of Attachment or Swanimote had been held in Salcey Forest since he became Ranger , ‘ and I doubt whether such Courts have been held ever since the Rangership has been in my Family , which is about 120 years ’ . |
| 24 | Another reason why people thought education was suffering continuing cuts despite the statistical evidence to the contrary was that the increased spending had not matched the improvements people saw in their homes and private spending power . |
| 25 | Mark Steyn , whose confidence in his wit is so great no amount of evidence to the contrary seems ever likely to shake it , took us on a tour of the National Humour Archive , complete with the Dawson Bequest , and a person at work on the wider socio-economic effects of Essex Girl jokes . |
| 26 | Judge Owen said he had no objection to the officers not revealing their names and addresses in open court but he would not allow evidence to be given in secret . |
| 27 | If Mr Major consorts with glamorous personalities such as Bill Wyman , Elaine Page and Fatima Whitbread , he must , despite all evidence to the contrary , be glamorous , too , and therefore deserves my vote . |
| 28 | The WEA presented its evidence to the Committee of Enquiry in November 1953 . |
| 29 | In its evidence to the Ashby Committee , the WEA had asked for more grant-aid to finance ‘ a considerable increase ’ in the number of full-time staff . |
| 30 | ‘ However , ’ the Council said in its evidence to the House of Lords Committee examining the EC 's proposal for a Directive on nitrate in vulnerable waters , ‘ the nitrate pollution that occurs is caused by the application of chemical fertilisers and animal slurries , which contain a mixture of phosphate and nitrate . |