I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a witness gives evidence
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Child witnesses gave evidence using closed circuit television cameras.
admissible evidence
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admissible evidence
ample time/evidence/opportunity
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You’ll have ample time for questions later.
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There is ample evidence that climate patterns are changing.
anecdotal evidence
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His findings are based on anecdotal evidence rather than serious research.
compelling evidence
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The court was presented with compelling evidence that she’d murdered her husband.
conclusive proof/evidence/findings etc
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The investigation failed to provide any conclusive evidence.
concrete evidence
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First, the police must have concrete evidence of an offence.
conflicting evidence
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The witnesses at the trial gave conflicting evidence.
crucial evidence
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The prosecution had forgotten one piece of crucial evidence.
destroy the evidence (= deliberately destroy evidence of a crime )
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They set light to the car to destroy the evidence.
direct evidence
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There is no direct evidence that this causes any harm.
documentary evidence/proof
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One of the most useful sources of documentary evidence is maps.
empirical evidence
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empirical evidence
evidence...flimsy
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The evidence against him is extremely flimsy .
evidence...inadmissible
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The evidence was ruled inadmissible .
evidence/results/data/studies etc suggest(s) that
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The evidence suggests that single fathers are more likely to work than single mothers.
experimental evidence/results/data
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A hypothesis is tested by finding experimental evidence for it.
expert evidence/testimony
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Two doctors were called to give expert testimony at the inquiry.
fabricating evidence
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The police were accused of fabricating evidence .
forensic evidence/science/medicine etc
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Forensic experts found traces of blood in the car.
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a career in forensic science
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a forensic pathologist
give evidence (= tell a court about what you have seen or know to be true )
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You may have to give evidence in court .
historical evidence/research etc
irrefutable evidence/proof/facts
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irrefutable proof of his innocence
king's evidence
mounting evidence
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There’s mounting evidence of a link between obesity and some forms of cancer.
not...a shred of evidence (= he has no evidence at all )
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He does not have a shred of evidence to prove his claim.
persuasive argument/evidence
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a persuasive argument against capital punishment
Queen's evidence
solid evidence
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The prosecution in this case has no solid evidence .
State's evidence
studies/evidence/research etc shows
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Several studies have shown that aggressive toys lead to bad behaviour.
take sth as evidence/proof (of sth)
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The presence of dust clouds has been taken as evidence of recent star formation.
tangible evidence/proof
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He has no tangible evidence of John’s guilt.
uncorroborated evidence
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He was convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of the alleged victim.
video evidence (= a recording of events, used in a court )
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Video evidence of illegal activities can later be used in court.
vital evidence
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The vital evidence contained in the file had disappeared.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ample
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However, while there is no proof, there is ample historical evidence to support many balance-of-power propositions.
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I was also fairly sure we would find ample evidence of their connections to the increased arson and bombing attacks on clinics.
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There is ample evidence , prosecutors say, that the police were ordered to make their killings as brutal as possible.
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I have found ample evidence of the truth and timeliness of those warnings from Hudiburg.
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With ample historical evidence on their side, the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets.
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Prumm also provides ample evidence for saying that there is little consensus concerning the nature or existence of Orphism.
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And there is ample evidence of liveliness.
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There is ample evidence that the centralized way of organizing and managing frustrates the elementary quest for freedom Tolstoy describes so eloquently.
anecdotal
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The report is backed up by anecdotal evidence from careers fairs.
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There is no apparent conclusive scientific study, but the anecdotal evidence is strong that the herb is useful.
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It is not merely anecdotal evidence .
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The anecdotal evidence is supported Statistically.
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The pictures of precision attacks provide only anecdotal evidence of effectiveness.
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But anecdotal evidence from marriage counselors and other professionals suggests that divorce rates spike when the first child leaves home.
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The alternatives to this approach fall into two distinct and equally unsatisfactory categories: 1. Anecdotal evidence , interpretation and prediction.
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McLean had lots of anecdotal evidence in his training room Monday.
available
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Democrats immediately accused Thompson of going beyond the available evidence .
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In carrying out the work, the research will draw on both the available documentary evidence and on interviews with key actors.
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Send the expert all the available evidence .
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We believe therefore that the available evidence strongly supports the use of full-dose aspirin as adjunctive therapy to thrombolysis.
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But, on the basis of currently available evidence , uncertainty remains.
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The available evidence does not support routine continuous fetal heart rate monitoring during all labours.
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Science has to cling to the available evidence even in the teeth of seeming contradiction.
circumstantial
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They also provide circumstantial evidence for a close relationship between mind and brain.
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The state will have to build its case with circumstantial evidence .
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In 1994, Raddad was jailed for 18 years for Marchal's murder on the basis of circumstantial evidence .
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They concede, however, that their case against Sharif rests on circumstantial evidence .
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There is certainly accumulating circumstantial evidence to suggest that this is in fact the case.
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There was circumstantial evidence a plenty to support the Shijingshan theory.
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Unfortunately, there is no evidence to support this explanation, apart from some rather dubious circumstantial evidence.
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The circumstantial evidence is merely overwhelming.
clear
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However, there is no clear evidence that this is true.
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There is no clear evidence of strong prejudice among young-old people against their elders in Britain.
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This may be the clearest evidence of the change from the imported gold coin acting as a primitive valuable to primitive money.
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The low circulation and poor distribution of leading literary journals provide clear evidence of the élitist character of the cultured few.
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However, in the event of there being no clear evidence of what the partners intend, certain presumptions will apply.
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The cameras provided clear and sufficient evidence of the identity, both of the vendors and the goods they produced.
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Section 20 will come into operation in the absence of express agreement or other clear evidence of the intention of the partners.
conclusive
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The results provide the most authoritative and conclusive evidence to date of some enduring inequities in participation in such facilities.
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If he has conclusive evidence of crimes, so be it.
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Pretty conclusive evidence you might think, but the Sharmas would not give up.
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There is no conclusive evidence on this point, but scattered returns are suggestive.
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This is hardly conclusive evidence for one theory or another.
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Later, in the 1980s, conclusive evidence pointed to the fact that lead in the environment was affecting children's development.
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Modern econometric work has found no conclusive evidence for the existence of a liquidity trap.
direct
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This report provides the first direct evidence for expression of P3A + variant mRNA in human thymus.
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This new instrument found the first direct evidence of solid matter surrounding stars other than our Sun.
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Unfortunately, attractive as such mechanisms are, direct evidence for their involvement is very weak.
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But he has no direct evidence of the frame-up.
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We have recently produced direct evidence supporting the possibility of amplification of the birth weight-blood pressure relation in childhood.
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There is no direct evidence of the prion hypothesis.
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Accounting reports measure profit and therefore provide direct evidence as to the organization's performance in a year.
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They were designed principally to search for direct and indirect evidence of life on the Martian surface.
documentary
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It is unusual to find documentary evidence earlier than the fifteenth century, and extremely fortunate to find actual details of buildings.
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Only Hangleton, now buried beneath Hove, has been adequately excavated and the archaeological work related to documentary evidence .
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The main input to the review process is documentary evidence .
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The historian's problem is that there is insufficient archaeological or documentary evidence to establish the chronology of this process.
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As it so happens, Columbus' personal reactions can be reconstructed in some detail from documentary evidence .
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Moreover, there is documentary evidence that adolescents have always attended the game without the supervision of adults.
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I was examining teachers and teaching in one school using such methods as participant observation, unstructured interviews and documentary evidence .
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The idea of questioning is central to the chapters on reading, note making and documentary evidence .
empirical
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This is consistent with empirical evidence reported in some studies.
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It is a myth that is clinically naive and will not stand up in the face of empirical evidence .
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There is, furthermore, substantial empirical evidence of variations in local policy outputs.
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The precepts of Centralism rest heavily on a base of ad hominem argumentation, not on empirical evidence of their effectiveness.
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Nevertheless, the empirical evidence is that these contribute little to individual ageing.
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The available empirical evidence indicates that all three explanations have some validity.
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I shall come back to them at the end of this chapter, having reviewed the empirical evidence .
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I will be considering the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of this particular mechanism in Chapter 9.
experimental
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Throughout the book, theoretical concepts and experimental evidence are integrated.
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However, some suggestive experimental evidence is now available.
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Though the theory was many years ahead of its time it was almost wholly guesswork and rested on no satisfactory contemporary experimental evidence .
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Further, no firm experimental evidence shows that these drugs diminish regional cerebral blood flow in migraineurs.
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Conversely, the fact that we are able to predict events is experimental evidence against singularities and for the no-boundary proposal.
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Learning is not always used as soon as it is acquired: Edward Tolman gave experimental evidence for this latent learning.
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They still require experimental evidence before they can be accepted as fact.
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Most of the relevant experimental evidence on this issue comes not from studies of latent inhibition but from investigations of conditioning itself.
forensic
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There was no forensic evidence to link Mr Nichol to the attack.
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Tiem and weather had worn away any forensic evidence .
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The case against Coleman was largely circumstantial, supported by some inconclusive forensic evidence .
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Gore then devised a plan to burn down the house, destroying any forensic evidence he might have left behind.
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Miss Clare Reggiori, prosecuting, applied for a four-week remand in custody, saying forensic evidence needed to be examined.
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In September 1990 a Home Office review concluded that there was no forensic evidence against the six.
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Moreover they expect the commission to push for a more careful approach in other areas, in particular: Forensic evidence .
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The forensic evidence dripped into the office.
further
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I think it unlikely that there is any further evidence which would put the question beyond doubt.
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He has reached the point where he will not tolerate any further evidence of divided loyalties.
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We suggest that this is further evidence that cardiovascular disease originates through programming in fetal life and infancy.
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It is further evidence that its policies are merely the result of what its paymasters, the trade unions, say.
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After hearing further evidence , they will rule on punitive damages.
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The age-migration of accident victims is further evidence of the failure of existing approaches.
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What is considered fact is that the behavior is further evidence of the disorder.
hard
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This was a pseudo-historical theory for which there was no hard evidence .
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But lack of documentation limits hard evidence .
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At present, there is considerable speculation about developments in the Corridor but little hard evidence .
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There is no hard evidence of files spirited away and even if they were, nobody knows whether they contain anything sinister.
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To what extent is it founded on hard evidence ?
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The board reported in March that there is little hard evidence about the amount of this new type of fraud.
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The results will delight Labour strategists, who for the first time have hard evidence the Tories have given up the battle.
historical
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This early state was not constructed from proper historical evidence of any kind.
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Analysts pointed out that there is little historical evidence to support this theory.
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This was predictable, though, looking back at historical evidence relating to a Friday Christmas.
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C., but biblical and historical evidence indicates that he actually was born several years earlier.
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It is important to understand the problematic nature of historical evidence , its advantages and failings, its certainties and its contentions.
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Locke faces the objection that there is no historical evidence for his account of the creation of political authority.
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With ample historical evidence on their side, the expansionists replied that visibility was a tested means of swelling research budgets.
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There is no historical evidence for the custom of releasing a prisoner at festival time, although such an amnesty was possible.
medical
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The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality.
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For there is by now a mountain of medical evidence that moderate consumption of alcohol dramatically lowers the risk of heart disease.
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I was terrified Voice over Nottingham Crown court heard medical evidence showed Fisher took no sadistic pleasure in violent attacks on women.
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Nick Clayton himself denied he had ever said the things relating to medical evidence that had been quoted.
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But Taylor will insist on independent medical evidence if any selected players are withdrawn.
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With the exception of certain areas of mental health, there appeared little clear medical evidence in support of these claims.
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The story quoted him as saying there was medical evidence which showed that there had been abuse.
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The medical evidence establishes that but for the accident, Fred would probably not have committed suicide.
new
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There is no new evidence that entitles us to start pulling ffeatherstonehaugh's apart.
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Attorneys for the government contended that the agency must have the flexibility to change course when new evidence emerges.
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The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has taken new evidence which has been received and is being assessed by my Department.
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We may construct a picture to be corrected or filled in by further examination or the discovery of new evidence .
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Mr Murphy's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid.
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While Samper was cleared of wrongdoing in December following a Congressional probe, the investigation could be reopened on new evidence .
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They will be welcomed by police who say that new technology can lead to powerful new evidence being discovered after a trial.
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Relatives of the men were confident the new evidence would eventually secure their release.
scientific
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He claimed scientific evidence had shown low levels of salmonella in water were not a risk to health.
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Previously, scientific evidence was allowed only if it had gained the general acceptance of the scientific community.
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Conversely, it takes a quite massive amount of scientific evidence to have a substance positively recommended for health.
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Jones is mounting a vigorous legal and public relations challenge to the scientific evidence collected against his client.
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Its aim was to examine scientific evidence on climate change, assess environmental and socio-economic impacts and formulate realistic response strategies.
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Beginning in 1980 the Agriculture and Health departments have issued dietary guidelines every five years, based on the latest scientific evidence .
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Secondly, they say there is no scientific evidence that whales are near extinction.
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Two university psychology professors say they have scientific evidence that southerners are more prone to violence than northerners.
strong
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There was strong evidence of a slow but methodical spread of this knowledge.
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Perhaps the strongest evidence for the theory comes from ongoing studies of bacteria.
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It also provided some of the strongest evidence to date that Sellafield did directly and routinely harm people's health.
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Six of her seven hypotheses were supported by strong evidence .
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The strongest evidence for such a contribution comes from studying the effects of removal of the primary visual cortex.
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There does not seem to be any strong evidence for this.
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So, the experiments produced strong evidence of a rhodopsin-like mechanism in the mites' extraocular receptors.
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Certainly, there is little strong evidence of an unambiguous growth in permissive child-rearing practice, at least in the United Kingdom.
sufficient
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Makkabaerbuch - I have never found it supported by sufficient evidence .
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Not sufficient evidence for an arrest.
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The basis for that submission was that the officers ought to have arrested offenders as soon as they had sufficient evidence .
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In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action.
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He has a confidence, typical of his time, that the works of nature provide sufficient evidence of a Deity.
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While perfect certainty that an element exists is not needed for recognition, there must be sufficient evidence that this is so.
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In his opening statement, defense attorney Estelito Mendoza insisted that prosecutors do not have sufficient evidence for a conviction.
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Unsupported representations, whether oral or written, do not of themselves constitute sufficient audit evidence .
■ VERB
admit
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We take the view that the judge was right to admit the evidence .
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It must be remembered, however, that the Order only permits the court to admit hearsay evidence .
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They admitted manslaughter and gave evidence against Allen.
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Ridgeway strongly resisted freeing the men, though he admitted that the evidence placed before the court had not demonstrated their guilt.
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It seemed so incredible that his mind failed to admit the evidence of his ears and eyes.
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The decision whether to admit or exclude evidence lay with the court of trial.
find
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They had little difficulty in finding abundant evidence for this hypothesis.
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He found no evidence that a matriarchy had ever existed or is in any way emerging today.
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For spot and futures returns over five-minute periods, he found evidence that futures returns led spot returns by up to fifteen minutes.
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Mellaart found no evidence of actual animal worship at Catal Huyuk.
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This study finds evidence for net benefits for all the member states.
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But they found no evidence of medical negligence.
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Using it, Narin finds no evidence whatsoever for economies of scale in the production of papers.
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Confirmation of abuse means an investigator found evidence that abuse occurred.
give
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You used to have to go to London to the Old Bailey, giving evidence and anything like that.
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A Mr Ashton had given evidence to the Inquiry and quoted a third party, who appeared to criticise its works.
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Two men are accused of murdering the informer to stop him giving evidence at an armed robbery trial.
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Crosse reported this and gave evidence at Lee's trial.
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Learning is not always used as soon as it is acquired: Edward Tolman gave experimental evidence for this latent learning.
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Neither Bream nor O'Leary gave evidence .
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He gave evidence in a low, strained voice, often scratching vivid red scars on his face, chin and neck.
hear
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They heard the Crown's evidence and convicted.
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The Disciplinary Board is responsible for hearing evidence and making decisions on ethical complaints filed against lawyers practicing law in North Dakota.
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He is also due in Orkney this morning to hear evidence from concerned councillors and officials as part of his inquiry.
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After hearing further evidence , they will rule on punitive damages.
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Bodiless voices, such as a schizophrenic might hear , gave evidence .
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He or she will hear evidence from the council, the applicant, neighbours and local groups.
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I have heard the evidence of the surgeon, who is in charge of this patient at the hospital.
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Last month, the appeal court had heard fresh evidence from two witnesses not called to give evidence at Smith's trial.
offer
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Relevance Lost opened the debate, and in the subsequent years many authors have followed to offer similar evidence .
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Moreover, language change offers important indirect evidence about the nature of human language namely, that it is rule-governed.
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Unfortunately, you don't offer any evidence that this would be desirable.
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A lawyer shall not knowingly... offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false.
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But anyone working in this field will receive from time to time invitations to offer evidence as an expert witness in such cases.
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On one hand, Eriksson needs a convincing public-relations exercise and a squad that offers evidence for optimism.
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Each University faculty will now require to decide which modules offer the appropriate evidence of academic potential for specific courses.
present
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Allow me to present the evidence and then reach your own verdict.
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Absolutely, and Holden himself presented the evidence .
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In any case it is the role of the Reporter to present the evidence and argue the case before the Sheriff.
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And considering that his claim of an 85 percent cure rate was presented without any supporting evidence .
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Lawyers said the prosecution was allowed to present evidence , but that there was no mention of any defence evidence.
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Here we present neurological evidence for the former view from studies of a brain-injured patient with visual neglect.
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I was unable to look directly at the policeman while he presented his evidence .
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We can present arguments and evidence about this.
produce
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He then handed me two grand-jury subpoenas, one to produce physical evidence a blood specimen and one to testify.
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Would Stan Gooch please produce some evidence to prove his figures?
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Democrats on the panel said seven separate investigations into the travel office affair have produced no evidence of illegality or impropriety.
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The gun had been produced as evidence .
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The hon. Gentleman has not produced evidence of a general trend.
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Meanwhile the police have produced new evidence which they hope will lead them to the killer.
provide
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It would be Kirov's job to turn those rumours into reality, provide evidence which would damn him for ever.
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This should provide evidence of interest and motivation in as many areas as possible of art, craft, design and architecture.
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These provide evidence to substantiate the loss and prevent possible fraudulent claims.
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The Government Agencies in this case have not been unwilling to provide evidence , I must acknowledge that.
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This provides strong evidence that the hybridization signals obtained are highly specific and due to the transfected plasmid.
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The pictures of precision attacks provide only anecdotal evidence of effectiveness.
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Religious writings provide no real evidence and must be ignored.
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This latter finding provides further evidence of the in vivo platelet activation and release reaction.
show
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Both polar regions show evidence of more extensive glaciation in the recent past.
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Those spikes showed evidence of having been inside a live tree.
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You swagger in here, into my lady's chamber, and shout allegations yet show no evidence .
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Her body showed evidence of food.
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The great majority of the children recovered very quickly after a quarrel and showed no evidence of resentment.
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The device showed evidence of much tinkering, and was clearly not yet functional.
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Our patient thus failed to show evidence of portal hypertension.
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Rocks in many places show evidence of such physical deformation.
suggest
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There is little evidence to suggest voters voting for a particular party because of its stand on a particular issue.
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This myth survives even though there is not a lot of evidence to suggest that it is true.
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In short, the latest evidence does not suggest that giving more tax relief will promote much more giving.
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The court held that there was no evidence to suggest that the decision to exclude was unreasonable on Wednesbury grounds.
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The evidence suggests that Gilmore won in spite of his ties to the religious right.
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The location of these buildings and the limited dating evidence strongly suggests that all three are relatively late in the morphological sequence.
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Their rich and complex evidence will suggest an appropriate verdict on the civilization they interpret.
support
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Makkabaerbuch - I have never found it supported by sufficient evidence .
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In regard to supporting evidence , be sure to use every possible source including personal interviews with authorities in the field.
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It can not be supported by evidence .
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Both strategies are well supported by evidence and medical consensus.
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Since her contentions are not supported by evidence , her allegations should not be confused with fact.
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Other supporting evidence for the use of different sand sources can be found in the analytical data.
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Six of her seven hypotheses were supported by strong evidence .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a preponderance of the evidence
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At sentencing, the judge found by a preponderance of the evidence that Putra had been involved in both transactions.
admit evidence
evidence/statements etc to the contrary
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But it also held evidence to the contrary .
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Despite all evidence to the contrary , the list price of the SE-40 is $ 980.
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Despite the evidence to the contrary , most of Monday morning's newspapers subscribed to the Army's version.
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Indeed, there is a good deal of evidence to the contrary .
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This, despite the evidence to the contrary that had surfaced since the Fort Lauderdale conference.
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Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then, evidence to the contrary has been slight.
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True he was not, so far as we know, misogynist: there is evidence to the contrary .
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Without evidence to the contrary , it may be unwise to go against the behavior suggested as appropriate by the myth.
hard evidence/facts/information etc
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But lack of documentation limits hard evidence.
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But, again, the commission found no hard evidence that Mr Wahid had lied or misused the money.
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For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions, with little success.
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Its record provides hard evidence to support his picture of a service in rude health rather than decline.
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Nothing in the way of hard facts, in any event.
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There are surely many answers to this question, not one of which is impeccably established by hard evidence.
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There is no hard evidence of files spirited away and even if they were, nobody knows whether they contain anything sinister.
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This was a pseudo-historical theory for which there was no hard evidence.
not a particle of truth/evidence etc
positive proof/evidence/identification etc
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A clearer view exists of what services are not than of any positive identification of their characteristics.
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After setting up the frequency, make sure of positive identification. 2.
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Check the call-sign twice for positive identification.
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However, the issue is settled by positive evidence not by ingenious explanation of the failure to confirm the idea.
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I was hoping for a positive identification.
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Just when these walls were later added remains a vexing question as so little positive evidence has even now been recovered.
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The fact that attempts are made to restore it is positive proof.
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They look for positive evidence that the business is soundly based and a good lending risk.
sworn statement/evidence/testimony etc
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The application was based on a sworn statement from a lay midwife who said she attended his birth in La Paloma.
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The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the camp, whose seven-month training including the use of explosives.
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This is confirmed by her not going against her sworn statement, unlawfully though it had been extracted from her.
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This meant that sworn statements by Mitchell, Stans and others would not be made public before the election.
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Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917.
the balance of evidence/probability etc
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A decision is made only on the balance of probabilities.
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After looking at the credentials for miraculous claims, Hume came to the conclusion that the balance of probabilities counted against them.
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All those defences are for the defendant to establish on the balance of probabilities.
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The burden of proof in establishing the defence is upon the defendant on the balance of probabilities.
turn King's evidence
turn Queen's evidence
turn State's evidence
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If both turn state's evidence, the five-year rule applies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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evidence of life on other planets
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His former girlfriend was called to give evidence .
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Husbands and wives cannot be forced to give evidence against each other.
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People have been looking for evidence of life on other planets for years.
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Prosecutors believe they have enough evidence to convict Smith.
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The evidence proves clearly and beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.
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The defense presented some new evidence from the victim's next-door neighbor.
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The government's case was based on evidence gathered over a two-year investigation.
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The most important piece of evidence , the murder weapon, has not been found.
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The police did not have enough evidence to charge anybody with the murder.
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There is no scientific evidence to support this theory.
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There is not a shred of evidence to support such a theory.
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There is some evidence that a small amount of alcohol is good for you.
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There is strong evidence to suggest that the Great Barrier Reef will have disappeared in 20 years time.
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There was no visible evidence that humans had ever lived in this valley.
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We can find no evidence that he ever worked for the company.
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Without any evidence we cannot prove that she was involved in murder.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After examining such evidence , the Oregon court agreed with the teacher that the contract was not divisible into two parts.
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And there appears to be little evidence that that will occur soon.
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Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores.
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He must draw deductions about what he thinks took place from the evidence that is presented to him.
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I have suggested elsewhere that their presentation of their evidence benefits from closer examination.
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In this case we must reconstitute ourselves into a court of appeal and go through all the evidence afresh.
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One need not go to Budhist sociology to find evidence of self benefits.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fact
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The husband and wife may agree that the joint tenancy should be severed but if so they should properly evidence that fact .
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That is evidenced by the fact that 45 percent of our adoptions are interracial....
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a preponderance of the evidence
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At sentencing, the judge found by a preponderance of the evidence that Putra had been involved in both transactions.
evidence/statements etc to the contrary
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But it also held evidence to the contrary .
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Despite all evidence to the contrary , the list price of the SE-40 is $ 980.
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Despite the evidence to the contrary , most of Monday morning's newspapers subscribed to the Army's version.
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Indeed, there is a good deal of evidence to the contrary .
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This, despite the evidence to the contrary that had surfaced since the Fort Lauderdale conference.
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Though many more polar homeotherms have been examined since then, evidence to the contrary has been slight.
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True he was not, so far as we know, misogynist: there is evidence to the contrary .
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Without evidence to the contrary , it may be unwise to go against the behavior suggested as appropriate by the myth.
hard evidence/facts/information etc
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But lack of documentation limits hard evidence.
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But, again, the commission found no hard evidence that Mr Wahid had lied or misused the money.
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For a few minutes longer Isabel tried to sort out hard facts from vague suspicions, with little success.
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Its record provides hard evidence to support his picture of a service in rude health rather than decline.
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Nothing in the way of hard facts, in any event.
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There are surely many answers to this question, not one of which is impeccably established by hard evidence.
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There is no hard evidence of files spirited away and even if they were, nobody knows whether they contain anything sinister.
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This was a pseudo-historical theory for which there was no hard evidence.
not a particle of truth/evidence etc
positive proof/evidence/identification etc
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A clearer view exists of what services are not than of any positive identification of their characteristics.
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After setting up the frequency, make sure of positive identification. 2.
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Check the call-sign twice for positive identification.
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However, the issue is settled by positive evidence not by ingenious explanation of the failure to confirm the idea.
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I was hoping for a positive identification.
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Just when these walls were later added remains a vexing question as so little positive evidence has even now been recovered.
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The fact that attempts are made to restore it is positive proof.
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They look for positive evidence that the business is soundly based and a good lending risk.
sworn statement/evidence/testimony etc
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The application was based on a sworn statement from a lay midwife who said she attended his birth in La Paloma.
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The reports were based on sworn statements of graduates of the camp, whose seven-month training including the use of explosives.
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This is confirmed by her not going against her sworn statement, unlawfully though it had been extracted from her.
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This meant that sworn statements by Mitchell, Stans and others would not be made public before the election.
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Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917.
the balance of evidence/probability etc
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A decision is made only on the balance of probabilities.
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After looking at the credentials for miraculous claims, Hume came to the conclusion that the balance of probabilities counted against them.
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All those defences are for the defendant to establish on the balance of probabilities.
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The burden of proof in establishing the defence is upon the defendant on the balance of probabilities.
turn King's evidence
turn Queen's evidence
turn State's evidence
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If both turn state's evidence, the five-year rule applies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A belief in unseen forces, perhaps, which in Auerbach's paintings are evidenced by angular vectors in the sky.
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However, seat belts also involve a degree of inconvenience, as evidenced by the unwillingness of many people to use them.
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Iron deficiency anemia, as evidenced by a high prevalence of low hemoglobin levels, was a widespread problem.
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Some of them have been visiting inappropriate Web sites, as was evidenced by the History folder.
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The Empire and the superiority it evidenced, was just the way things were, entirely natural.
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The split between rich and poor teams has grown wider, evidenced by the few clubs going after high-priced free agents.
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This was evidenced by the continuation of her long-established teaching methods and forms of classroom organisation between sessions with the advisory teacher.