Example sentences of "[art] evidence of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At Leeds assizes , the evidence of Mrs Dyson was conclusive .
2 But to ignore the evidence of differences in performance between gender or ethnic groups can lead to unjust treatment of individuals .
3 Some officials relied on the evidence of headmen ; others believed that the intrigues of headmen were a major cause of crime .
4 This latter article also deals with a number of other issues discussed in this chapter , including the evidence of change in the mid-'60s , the difference between cities in their manufacturing/service balance , the difference between rural areas in the north and south , and the geographical centralization of control .
5 The evidence of psychoanalysis shows that almost every intimate emotional relation between two people which lasts for some time — marriage , friendship , the relation between parents and children — contains a sediment of feelings of aversion and hostility , which only escapes perception as a result of repression .
6 This view of the meaning of Exodus 6:2–3 is borne out by the evidence of Genesis .
7 Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron .
8 Again from the report of the Commissioners in 1863 , the following extract is taken from the evidence of Dr J.T. Arledge , senior physician of the North Staffordshire Infirmary :
9 As early as 1921 , the Newbolt Report , summarizing the evidence of Professor Ernest de Sélincourt , expressed deep unease about the American approach to literary research :
10 The historians of a general history , on the other hand , reject interpretation as such in favour of making the evidence of documents intelligible by posing questions to them , constituting through such questions what counts as the series of historical events , its elements , its limits , and its relation to other series , or what rules operated for particular discursive practices .
11 Why does the Prime Minister ignore the evidence of employers , who tell us that unless policies change 50,000 more jobs will go from construction , 40,000 from motor vehicles and textiles , with a further 70,000 manufacturing jobs going ?
12 Yet even when this is added to the evidence of bonding and enabling structures of family , kin , friendships , religion and community sketched above , something is missing .
13 He at length quoted the evidence given by Wells , the butcher and pointed out that , if the jury believed this and the evidence of Drew 's landlady , Mrs Goodall , then it was in direct contradiction to the majority of other witnesses .
14 Written records confirm the evidence of archaeology that foundation offerings of precious substances were made during the construction of early temples in Mesopotamia .
15 I rely in this matter on the evidence of experts in er wildlife conservation , and that is .
16 The evidence of peculiarity accumulates .
17 More importantly , there is the evidence of circumcision .
18 Their Lordships concede that the judge erroneously classed as hearsay some evidence which , though tenuous , was admissible , but they consider that the evidence of Paulette 's drug addiction could not , if admitted , have affected the outcome , particularly having regard to the fact that the defendant 's own evidence did not tend to show that Paulette was affected by drugs at the material time .
19 Unlike though it seems the horsetails are plants left over from prehistoric times , having survived almost unchanged for hundred of millions of years , judging by the evidence of fossil remains .
20 The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ?
21 But the evidence of coins is not as straightforward as it might seem .
22 In other ways , too , the evidence of coins needs to be used with sensitivity , since the depictions on coins are not at all like modern photographs .
23 Although the depiction of an ancient building on a coin can not be taken entirely at face value , it would be equally wrong to conclude that the evidence of coins is worthless in reconstructing the architectural history of the ancient world .
24 The evidence of coins , as indeed of any artefact , is used as a source of history in inverse proportion to the amount of history which has survived .
25 The evidence of Dagenham 's predicament can be gauged from internal company documents which illustrate graphically the task confronting Ford and its workforce .
26 If you asked for the evidence of accountability , there were no measures .
27 Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable .
28 Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience .
29 In Staffordshire Cannock Forest was reduced to seven scattered demesne hays , and in Kinver Forest twenty-three vills and parts of six others were put out , despite the evidence of Domesday that Chasepool , Enville and Kidderminster were already in the forest in 1086 .
30 In Somerset , for example , they showed by the evidence of Domesday that Dulverton and Winford were of the ‘ ancient demesne ’ of the Crown of England , and therefore ought to remain in Exmoor Forest , according to the provisions of the Charter .
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