Example sentences of "[adj] evidence [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The conference also heard detailed evidence yesterday on the more disturbing , but necessary , work of body identification .
2 It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect .
3 Japan , faced with a diplomatic assault on several fronts , responded with a resolution which shifted the onus of proof - drift-netting could be banned if scientific evidence clearly showed that the effects on fish stocks and cetaceans were ‘ not sustainable' ’ .
4 It 's often put that hunting is good for the countryside that it 's about controlling foxes the scientific evidence rather puts that to pay the scientific evidence certainly indicates that fox hunting makes very little difference to control of foxes in the countryside and there is some evidence to suggest that fox hunting actually encourages more foxes to breed and that we end up with more foxes , so it seems to be self defeating in that respect .
5 The members of the Royal College need a very large quantity of scientific evidence indeed , drawn from many sources , before they will commit themselves so far .
6 The Court of Appeal has power to receive fresh evidence only on special grounds .
7 These rigorous tests mean that the Court of Appeal hears fresh evidence only rarely ; it will certainly need to be satisfied that the appeal is not being used merely as an attempt to argue the case in a different way .
8 Mr Brown said last night that the fresh evidence still left the central question unanswered .
9 The fiscal evidence also points to an increase in its wealth in relation to the country as a whole : between 1334 and 1515 the assessed wealth of the city increased fifteenfold in absolute terms , and from 2 per cent to 8.9 per cent of the assessed wealth of the nation as a whole ( 101 ) .
10 However , new theoretical evidence strongly supports the suggestion that the atmosphere , acting alone , can spontaneously generate persistent weather spells that can last for weeks .
11 Therefore , additional evidence clearly pointing to a causal relation between H pylori infection and gastric ulcer disease has to be provided .
12 Many foreign investors profess far-fetched hopes that profits will double in the year to March 1995 , though there is minimal evidence yet of any pick-up in the Japanese economy .
13 The crash of the giant Rosehaugh development company , once the most glamorous outfit of the Eighties , is the most graphic evidence yet of the slump in property values .
14 A particularly notable omission was children of high ability , the more serious in view of the widespread evidence nationally that such children underachieve in primary schools , partly because too little is expected of them .
15 What is the other possible corroborative or supporting evidence here ?
16 Such incomplete and imperfect evidence naturally limited the validity of inferences and generalizations based on it , although this was seldom apparent at the time .
17 Since the West Midlands business and now all this about false evidence everywhere you looked , the police popularity poll was down to minus two .
18 As diverse evidence also indicates that the stars found in star-forming regions lose mass either from their surfaces or from surrounding accretion disks , a causal connection between stellar mass loss and the H-H objects has become a widespread article of faith .
19 In doing so , one must reiterate that , as mentioned at the beginning of the chapter , one is anticipating a conclusion that will be reached in the following chapter , namely that the " Mustakimzade tradition " , for all its faults , is perhaps marginally less unsatisfactory than other accounts of the origins of the Muftilik , though as has been , and will be , seen , there is very little in the way of solid evidence even for it .
20 The Profitboss profits from the facts , convincing his customers , suppliers , colleagues and team alike that he knows what he 's talking about , that his conclusions and recommendations are based on solid evidence rather than unsubstantiated opinion .
21 As for other aspects of the communication systems , the ‘ evolutionary , ontogenetic and neurological evidence currently available tends to support homology rather than [ analogy ] ’ .
22 Those that survived — particularly those that both survived and thrived , as in ancient Egypt — have left us ample evidence both of the danger , and of how it was met .
23 But for the rest of spoken language , our neo-cortex is heavily involved , with strong evidence furthermore of lateralisation for speech even as early as birth .
24 The present evidence therefore suggests that the universe will probably expand forever , but all we can really be sure of is that even if the universe is going to recollapse , it wo n't do so for at least another ten thousand million years , since it has already been expanding for at least that long .
25 Nordenfalk 's book includes the scrupulous examination of visual evidence always welcome and often found in writing by a museum curator .
26 And the visual evidence all goes to prove that this took place while he was working on the Demoiselles , probably in June .
27 So , before setting off on my search , I resolved to check the existing evidence as critically as I could .
28 Such information helps archaeologists to interpret excavated evidence more accurately .
29 Unfortunately , empirical evidence rarely leads to the resolution of economic debates , primarily because the economist can not control his experiments in such a way as to isolate the effect of one variable ( e.g. the money supply ) on others ( e.g. money incomes ) .
30 Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ .
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