direct evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandevidence
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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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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(Definition ofdirectandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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On the other hand, they did not provide anydirectevidencethat seeds defecated by grit-using birds are intact and viable.
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As a result of the condition in which most houses are found during excavation, there is limiteddirectevidencefor the use of internal space.
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There is alsodirectevidencethat poor maternal nutrition and maternal smoking cause both a reduction in birthweight and subsequent loss of glucose tolerance.
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Directevidenceof non-locality of the energy transfer was observed.
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Analysis of nearby clay sources provides usefuldirectevidencefor production and distribution of ceramics, but in most cases the firing sites are only inferred.
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This section presents some indirect anddirectevidenceof hydrogen production in the seafloor and in continental geothermal systems.
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Directevidencefor facultative adoption of less prudent host exploitation strategies (which require that new parasites can detect existing infections) has been difficult to obtain.
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However,directevidencethat proves such experience-induced neurogenesis is required for memory tasks is lacking.
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These data providedirectevidencefor the involvement of the parietal lobe in the pathophysiology of passivity delusions in schizophrenia.
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And there is no doubt about it - this isdirectevidenceof a government exhibiting inconsistent fiscal preferences.
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Significantly, pain appears in the one domain where legal and religious authorities cooperated - the ascertaining of truth when nodirectevidencewas available.
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The idea is that a language learner only adopts syntactic patterns for which there isdirectevidencein the input.
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Until the mid-eighties, nearly everyone agreed that these well-known facts provideddirectevidencethat children learn symbolic rules of the kind postulated by linguists.
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The hierarchy was based partly on sources ofdirectevidence.
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While we have nodirectevidencefor the importance of these three possible pathways, it is plausible that all are acting to some extent.
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Some have argued that the very presence of a ballcour t isdirectevidencethat the center had a royal presence.
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Moredirectevidenceon the nature of the relationship is scanty.
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In this outbreak environmental and microbiological investigations provided nodirectevidenceof such a source.
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There is nodirectevidenceof the origin of fat in human milk.
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We need moredirectevidenceof what the fans actually say and think.
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