Example sentences of "used [prep] evidence " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The pattern revealed by kinship terms can not therefore be used as evidence of marriage systems in the way that Morgan believed .
3 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 .
4 It is also consistent with the data on transits of Mercury that Parkinson 's team used as evidence for the constancy of the solar radius ; according to their data any change has to be smaller than 0.15 seconds of arc per century .
5 The wealth of information collected and most ably synthesised in the project 's report was used as evidence on which to base suggestions for possible key topics round which teaching could be based .
6 But given the quality of MI5 's intelligence displayed during the Gulf war , when it was used as evidence against alleged Iraqi fifth columnists , increased involvement by the agency does not inspire confidence .
7 Quantitative material is also used as evidence for the criminal proclivities of persons with certain social characteristics .
8 If the new test is found to correlate highly with an old , established test , this may be used as evidence in favour of validity .
9 A fingerprint was found — but she was told it could not be used as evidence and other officers were not questioned about it , she told an industrial tribunal .
10 Since the argument between the two centres on how open each country 's market and regulatory climate are , an increase in Telecom 's ability to buy from US suppliers could be used as evidence of the openness of the UK market .
11 Clearly , much more research needs to be done on a wide variety of conodonts before the histological structure may be used as evidence of vertebrate affinities .
12 In a further twist , a book by Theodor B. Donson , entitled Prints and the Print Market , published in 1977 and brought to the attention of The Art Newspaper by a restorer from Chicago , is now being used as evidence to back up the defence against Goldreyer 's extraordinary libel suits against critics of his restoration , totalling no less than $125 million .
13 Confessions which have been obtained as a result of oppressive questioning can not be used as evidence in criminal proceedings ( s.76 ) .
14 This has been used as evidence of the continuing popularity of marriage .
15 Hence the normality of 42 when the dogs referred to are of opposite sexes can not be used as evidence against the existence of two senses of dog , since it can be fully accounted for by claiming that only the general sense is operative .
16 By paragraph 33 of the order it was provided that no such disclosure should be used as evidence in the prosecution of an offence alleged to have been committed by Mr. and Mrs. Tully .
17 No disclosure made in compliance with paragraphs 18 to 32 inclusive of this order shall be used as evidence in the prosecution of the offence alleged to have been committed by the person required to make that disclosure or by any spouse of that person .
18 ‘ No disclosure made in compliance with paragraphs 18 to 32 inclusive of this order shall be used as evidence in the prosecution of an offence alleged to have been committed by the person required to make that disclosure or by any spouse of that person .
19 ‘ unless a defendant is assured that information given in response to an order for disclosure can not and thus will not be used as evidence at his trial for the offences charged , he may well be entitled to refuse to supply the information on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him .
20 The terms of paragraph 33 of the order , coupled with the written response of the Crown Prosecution Service , prevents the material provided in compliance with paragraphs 18 to 32 inclusive of the order being used as evidence in the prosecution of any offence alleged to have been committed by the defendants .
21 … ( 5 ) The written record may , in any proceedings ( whether under the Act or otherwise ) be used as evidence against the bankrupt of any statement made by him in the course of his public examination .
22 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 .
23 This combined evidence indicates that some stylolite and solution seam formation can take place during shallow burial ; these solution features should not , therefore , be used as evidence for deep burial .
24 Little was done to halt mass pro-Iraqi demonstrations on the West Bank and Gaza Strip ; instead they were used as evidence of Arafat 's close links with Saddam Hussein 's " terrorist " state .
25 A good contract is one which brings benefits to both sides and this is the result that should be aimed at in negotiations ; it should be written , however , as if every point were to be used as evidence at a later date .
26 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 .
27 They look at examples of illuminated manuscripts , and investigate how they can be used as evidence for life in the Middle Ages .
28 Previously they were withheld while being used as evidence .
29 Following upon the Cleveland Report which was concerned with civil proceedings the Criminal Justice Act 1991 has now made it possible for video recordings of interviews with children to be used as evidence in criminal proceedings .
30 Legislation is going through to allow their pictures to be used as evidence .
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