Example sentences of "no evidence that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It has been suggested ( White , 1978 , p. 101 ) that if we look at the delivery of key speeches in the Supreme Soviet , for example , there was no evidence that prominent groups were gaining proportionately more influence vis-a-vis the party , which may demonstrate that there is no good reason to assume that industrialized societies necessarily develop similar political characteristics .
2 If one compares the ratio of central to regional/local expenditure in federal and unitary states , there is no evidence that federal states are necessarily more decentralised .
3 There is no evidence that all jurists early practised toleration of defective trusts , for we have seen that up to the end of the first century at least there was opposition to allowing them validity .
4 There is no evidence that retrospective reimbursement gives any encouragement to the cost-effective use of different procedures since the health care suppliers know that , whatever the cost , they will be reimbursed . [ … ]
5 The expansion of the public sector , as Harris points out , merely filled the gap left by the private sector and , what is more , ‘ there is no evidence that private sector output would have been substantially higher than it actually was if the output of the public sector had been lower . ’
6 There is no evidence that such goods moved any great distance from their place of:manufacture and no reason why this should be necessary .
7 There is no evidence that addictive disease arises from traumas of early childhood or that psycho-therapeutic techniques that explore the emotional and behavioural patterns established in these early years have any effect whatever in the understanding or treatment of addictive disease .
8 The report explores the effects of the warm weather " the winter of 1988/89 was the warmest in central England since 1659 " on plants and animals , although it says there is no evidence that global warming was responsible for the high temperatures .
9 There is no evidence that home-based treatment results in better outcome than outpatient care ( see Chapter 9 and Hawton et al. 1981 a ) .
10 DG said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future .
11 Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter .
12 From our study , however , there was no evidence that supplemental oxygen led to any reduction of clinically important cardiac arrhythmias in patients over 60 .
13 Activity in giant cells in the pontine brainstem have been shown to precede eye movements in REM sleep in animals ( or paradoxical sleep , as it is called in rodents and cats ) while there is no evidence that cortical activity can influence these cells ' discharges .
14 There is no evidence that this species has ever nested in Sussex .
15 It is possible that the selectors only had the E-K telephone directory to hand , and thus were limited in their options , but there is no evidence that this policy is a winning one .
16 According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) .
17 But , as we have seen , there is no evidence that unfair credit refusal is so widespread as to justify an elaborate system for redress ( and statutory bodies already exist which have the duty to hunt down cases of real discrimination on grounds of sex or race ) .
18 They were part-time and he ‘ had no evidence that enhanced opening hours had created one permanent full time career job ’ .
19 Referring to Moser 's three sources of sampling bias mentioned earlier , it is clear that the sampling frame used ( two general practice records ) does not cover the whole population of housewives ; yet there is no evidence that these records represent a particularly unrepresentative sub-sample of the population .
20 While analogous , in this sense , to an epileptic seizure , there is no evidence that these jerks have anything else in common with epilepsy .
21 ‘ We could find no evidence that these risks had been explicitly recognised by the department when they decided in 1988 to proceed with the system .
22 There is no evidence that any debts , apart from her tax liability , remained outstanding .
23 Asked in the House of Commons about the allegations , which were repeated by the Sunday Times , UK Prime Minister John Major said that there was no evidence that any country other than Libya was involved in the bombing .
24 There is no evidence that any miners were pressed into military service .
25 The concession covered any of the estate in Westmoreland , Cumberland , and Lancaster ( Lancashire ) , but there appears no evidence that any work was actually put in hand .
26 ‘ Language across the Curriculum ’ sometimes appears as a general title , but there is no evidence that any languages other than English contribute strongly to a serious policy for other subjects in school .
27 In the subsequent exchange of letters it was asserted that there is no evidence that high doses of vitamin A reduce the rate of infection and , as a mechanism was lacking , the effect on mortality was equally suspect .
28 I 'd like to pick up on a point that er that Roy Donson made also right at the outset of of the discussion and that was that there 's no evidence that local authorities have have faced pressure for development in the countryside .
29 There is no evidence that either type is more potent as a guide to subsequent action .
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