Example sentences of "[verb] as 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 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The following indicates what may be regarded as evidence for each performance criterion . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Rather , it is treated as evidence of latent power , which serves as a constraint on management freedom of action . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It can not be claimed as evidence of their effectiveness . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , both circumstances particularly highlighted skills which were difficult to acquire or monitor and could hardly act as evidence on the nature of thought . |
| 22 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 23 | There we claimed that if nothing in your experience could count as evidence that you were not a brain in a vat , your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be called justified . |
| 24 | A weakly verifiable statement is not itself strongly verifiable , but is confirmable or disconfirmable by appeal to other statements which are conclusively verifiable ; that is , strongly verifiable statements can count as evidence for or against it . |
| 25 | This is an essential aspect of theory testing , of course : results which are consistent with all models can not count as evidence for any of them . |
| 26 | Should an individual wish to take an S/NVQ who already has a qualification relating to the funeral service , that qualification will not give direct credit exemption but can count as evidence of competence . |
| 27 | Iraq pressed for an ICRC investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) into these reports , which it regarded as evidence of US war crimes . |
| 28 | If , however , another user is cut by a razor which manufacturer A supplied after May 1991 , this user can point to the safer design of manufacturer B's razor as evidence that the razor which cut him was not as safe as persons were ( at the time manufacturer A supplied it ) entitled to expect . |
| 29 | Later , when dealing with the case against the appellant Low , and having told the jury that they could not consider as evidence against him any statements made by the second appellant , he added : ‘ Now in deciding what it was that the first accused is proved to have done , you must consider all the evidence available in the case against the first accused in coming to this decision , but only that evidence . ’ |
| 30 | The endoscopic findings of ‘ erythema ’ , ‘ oedema ’ , ‘ friability ’ , ‘ hyperaemia ’ , ‘ dilated cardia ’ , ‘ endoscopic reflux ’ , which agree with Savary and Tytgat , were not considered as evidence of oesophagitis , because they are too subjective to be evaluated and were not reproducible from one observer to another . |