Example sentences of "evidenced by the fact " in BNC.
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| 1 | Briefly , the argument is as follows : the homosexual is a creation of modern discourse , medical , sexological , and psychological , as evidenced by the fact that the word ‘ homosexual ’ was coined in 1869 : neither it nor the sexual sense of perversion appeared in the OED until its 1933 Supplement . |
| 2 | That Miller was known outside the gardening fraternity at the time is evidenced by the fact that his expertise was sought by Nathan Bailey for his Dictionarum Britannicum or a more Compleat Etymological English Dictionary , 1730 . |
| 3 | That he did not depart of his own free will is abundantly evidenced by the fact that he left behind all his belongings and expressed the intention of being back within the period of four hours . |
| 4 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 5 | This is evidenced by the fact that most candidates seem well drilled to answer objective-test ( multiple-choice ) questions , but are weaker in the written test . |
| 6 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |
| 7 | The pessimistic view is evidenced by the fact that the rate of conviction stemming from reported rapes has declined by 44 per cent in the case of rape , 16 per cent in the case of sexual assault and 9 per cent in the case of incest . |
| 8 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 9 | Lim 's sources of information were seen to be much more effective than the Army 's compromised intelligence gathering network , as evidenced by the fact that four of the chief rebel officers captured since the coup attempt had been tracked down and arrested by the police . |
| 10 | The seriousness of the revolt was evidenced by the fact that Soapy Simon , an arch-appeaser who wanted above everything to be liked , had become their spokesman and had let them cram into his room and sit it out ( with a break for dinner at the Savoy , of course ) until the PM gave his answer . |