Example sentences of "evidence is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of premises is to throw light on a subject ; the role of evidences is to give weight to it . |
| 2 | Evidence is mounting that weeds do more than just compete with crops for light and nutrients . |
| 3 | But what evidence is there that this bit of the cortex is concerned with the reception of sound ? |
| 4 | And indeed what evidence is there that Sicily as a physical presence , a quite insistent presence as generations of travellers have found it , ever modified Pound 's sensibility in the least ? |
| 5 | If it be objected that no beginning writer shops around in this way among the idioms handed down to him from the past , the evidence is that certain beginning writers do shop around in just this way ; Ezra Pound was one of them , and he is by no means so exceptional as is supposed . |
| 6 | Very few have been evaluated , and the evidence is largely anecdotal , he said . |
| 7 | So what evidence is there to suggest that General Aoun would discuss the issue once the Syrians left ? |
| 8 | The pamphlet said : ‘ The evidence is overwhelming that he arranged the perpetration of a major war crime in the full knowledge that the most barbarous and dishonourable aspects of his operations were throughout disapproved and unauthorised by the higher command , and in the full knowledge that a savage fate awaited those he was repatriating . |
| 9 | The only really solid piece of evidence is the fact that Thatcher made no mention of her mother in her Who 's Who entry . |
| 10 | The evidence is one of gross lack of it . |
| 11 | At the moment , the economic evidence is sufficiently ambiguous to support the view that higher rates were needed domestically , not just to steady the pound . |
| 12 | He says evidence is systematically suppressed by the authorities . |
| 13 | The evidence is not conclusive . |
| 14 | ‘ It has been assumed that the eggs are contaminated too but the evidence is weak , ’ he said . |
| 15 | But new evidence is emerging that shows even greater military discontent with the general 's rule than was previously thought . |
| 16 | A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt . |
| 17 | The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by . |
| 18 | But , as McQuail ( 1987 , pp. 275–6 ) himself has recently pointed out , most of the accumulated evidence is inconclusive and the media-dominated agenda-setting hypothesis has ‘ the status of a plausible but unproven idea ’ . |
| 19 | The evidence is less convincing on closer examination . |
| 20 | An editorial in The Times , a firm supporter of Thatcherite policies , could ask on 3 May 1985 : ‘ If these obstructions to a society , based on enterprise and shorn of its collectivist illusions , can not be dismantled in six years , what evidence is there that twelve years will be any better ? ’ |
| 21 | This is clearly wrong : if anything , the evidence is all the other way ( Ucko and Dimbleby , 1969 ) ; in most cases agriculture preceded herding . |
| 22 | This crucial element in Morgan 's evidence is an illusion and there is not the slightest shred of evidence that those societies where large numbers of people can be referred to by the terms for parent are societies where marriage is either more or less individualistic . |
| 23 | Unfortunately this type of evidence is also misleading , for two reasons . |
| 24 | The evidence is too complex and too little work has been done . |
| 25 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 26 | In supermarkets , the evidence is all one way . |
| 27 | The affair , he believes , is evidence of a deep-seated political campaign against the police , of which the most recent evidence is the fact that Balwinder Gill , late of the SMG , has now taken up an appointment as a race officer with Hounslow council . |
| 28 | They believe it even though the evidence is suspect , such is the charmed life of the child . |
| 29 | ‘ The evidence is there . |
| 30 | The monetary evidence is supported by various other signs of weakness . |