prima facie evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprima donna-ish,prima facieandevidence
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prima-donna-ish
adjective
uk/ˌpriː.mə ˈdɒn.ə.ɪʃ/us/ˌpriː.mə ˈdɑː.nə.ɪʃ/
difficult to please and demanding to be treated in a ...
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prima-facie
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌpraɪ.mə ˈfeɪ.ʃi/us/ˌpraɪ.mə ˈfeɪ.ʃi/
at first sight (= based on what seems to be the truth when first seen ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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The preceding analysis provides primafacieevidenceof close linkages between political parties, policy preferences and market outcomes.
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This interference effect has been taken as primafacieevidencethat lexical selection is competitive.
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This is primafacieevidenceof the scarcity of water for irrigation.
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After all, the fact that they were cast constitutes primafacieevidencethat some voters value this opportunity.
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At the level of signs and symptoms, fragmentation of mental functions is primafacieevidenceof impaired cognitive coordination.
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The intact skeletons provide primafacieevidencethat the animals were not predated.
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This is also primafacieevidenceof the synergistic effects of watershed treatment to groundwater recharge resulting in positive externalities (refer to table 3).
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The recognition of these four rather clearly distinct eons might be considered as primafacieevidencein favour of a hard-step model with n=4.
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This could be taken as primafacieevidencethat the decrease in the protected period after vaccination may have been even stronger than considered here (from lifelong to 5 years).
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Hence, the primafacieevidencewould suggest that the context for the substitution is a coda position.
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The misnaming of a horse ' doggie ' seems primafacieevidencethat the child believes horse and dog to be the same kind of thing, deserving the same name.
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If thinking dispositions correlate with individual differences in the normative / descriptive gap, then this will be primafacieevidencethat the gap is caused by real differences in intentional-level psychology.
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Other criteria are primafacieevidenceof a miscarriage of justice and cases where the prisoner is a minor.
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Warrants have been issued against those for whom we think that there is primafacieevidenceof guilt.
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No primafacieevidenceon this subject has even begun to be provided.
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It is clear that there is primafacieevidenceof, at best, something dramatically wrong and, at worst, serious and consistent malpractice.
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We regard the existence of a scheme in the inherited programme as primafacieevidenceof a transport problem.
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The existence of a scheme in the inherited programme is seen as primafacieevidencethat there is a transport problem.
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Precisely because it is clear that the person has a qualifying benefit, which in a sense is primafacieevidenceof entitlement to the allowance.
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It seems to us that there is primafacieevidencethat they will work.
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