Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] evidence " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much , therefore , we may feel with the later Romantics that Wordsworth was ‘ a political apostate ’ , his social interests will always remain as evidence of his humanity . |
| 2 | However , this does not mean that they will become invalid — they will remain as evidence of achievement in their own right . |
| 3 | Mr Hawkins 's name arose during evidence in the trial , but yesterday friends insisted he had no connection with drugs . |
| 4 | With all this it is rather slow to grow and frequently when the culture plate is examined for evidence of gonococcal growth it will be found to be overgrown by other bacteria or yeasts , making it difficult or impossible to identify the gonococcus . |
| 5 | A cervical smear may be taken , which is specially stained in the laboratory ( the Papanicolaou smear ) and examined for evidence of early cancer of the cervix . |
| 6 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 7 | He therefore gave authority to one Edward Sawyer to make inquiries , and to search for evidence in all houses and places in Kettering and five miles around . |
| 8 | Tyrone was to search for evidence of further concealed Coal Measures . |
| 9 | An additional power is given by section 8 which allows an application to be made to a magistrate for a warrant to search for evidence of a serious arrestable offence . |
| 10 | It is an offence to obstruct the police in their efforts to search for evidence of a drug offence . |
| 11 | ( The lack of teeth in terms of penalties is compounded by a lack of powers to search for evidence of abuses . ) |
| 12 | Under the provisions of PACE , the police now have powers to search for evidence prior to charging a suspect . |
| 13 | Indeed , where the bank or other party refuses to co-operate and the offence is serious , or is likely to lead to substantial financial gain or loss to any person , the same act allows the police to search for evidence which has the intention of furthering a criminal purpose , and in such cases this provision overrides legal privilege . |
| 14 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 15 | Sidonius Apollinaris ' lines et te Massiliensium per hortos sacri stipitis , Arbiter , colonum ( Carmen 23. 155–6 ) " You , Petronius , who in the gardens of Marseilles were the worshipper of the sacred tree-stock " are given as evidence for the Massaliote origins of Petronius . |
| 16 | It is generally accepted that odours per se do not cause a risk of infection and it is doubtful whether nausea , sleeplessness , mental strain or depression , commonly suffered by people exposed to odours , would be regarded as evidence of prejudice to health , as they affect a person 's general well-being , rather than threaten a clinical disease . |
| 17 | In this instance the reader is concerned that marks or stamps the auditor made on a document in the course of preparing accounts could mistakenly be regarded as evidence of authentication when such had not in fact occurred . |
| 18 | From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories . |
| 19 | A fire , caused by a bolt of lightning at York Minster , can still be regarded as evidence of divine wrath at the appointment of a contentious bishop . |
| 20 | The resignations in February 1990 of Mesut Yilmaz , the Foreign Minister [ see p. 37263 ] , and on March 28 of Ekrem Pakdemirli , the Finance Minister , were reportedly regarded as evidence of the growing alienation of the liberal faction within the ANAP and of a more determined hold within the party of a " Holy Alliance " of Islamic fundamentalists and right-wing nationalists [ see also p. 36564 ] . |
| 21 | The controversial clause , included by a vote of 220 to 208 , was regarded as evidence of greater sympathy within the 102nd Congress than its predecessor towards the pro-choice lobby . |
| 22 | The following indicates what may be regarded as evidence for each performance criterion . |
| 23 | Values less than 6.0 mg/l are considered normal and those exceeding 6.0 mg/l are regarded as evidence of a raised CRP in serum . |
| 24 | The fact that no part of the fine was payable to an individual damaged was regarded as evidence that Parliament did not intend the statute to give rise to an action . |
| 25 | Such phrases as ‘ loss of temper ’ or ‘ heat of passion ’ are treated as useful synonyms , for which angry or apparently uncontrolled reactions may be treated as evidence . |
| 26 | Similarly , the phenomenon which is treated as evidence in the deductive explanation ( e.g. , there is glass on the ground ) can also be treated as an effect in an empirical explanation : |
| 27 | This might be treated as evidence that Gibbon uses an abnormally large number of abstract nouns , but of course it can not , for we might then discover that a preponderance of abstract nouns is quite normal in the prose of Gibbon 's contemporaries , and that Gibbon 's language in this respect is not exceptional . |
| 28 | To gain information from sites and finds , they have to be treated as evidence , and information has to be deduced from them in much the same way as a detective uses forensic evidence . |
| 29 | Rather , it is treated as evidence of latent power , which serves as a constraint on management freedom of action . |
| 30 | This separation allows for further twists in the nature of representation , since the failure of the modernist council estate could be ( and was ) manipulated by the media to appear as evidence for the failure of the ideals of communality such estates appeared to represent . |