factual evidence

collocation in English

meaningsoffactualandevidence

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factual
adjective
uk
/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈfæk.tʃu.əl/
using or consisting ...
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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 offactualandevidencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffactual evidence

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The book does not provide unbiased,factualevidenceon the benefits of the first generation products of this technology to farmers.
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Cost-effectiveness studies, in order to produce enoughfactualevidencefor supporting the statements and forecasts given in what follows.
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The demonstration you are asking for consists offactualevidence.
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Due to a lack offactualevidence, no conclusions can be drawn concerning the potential preventive role of antioxidants in rheumatoid arthritis.
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My opposition to the use of archaeology for political ends pushed me to elaborate methods of archaeological argumentation and estimation offactualevidenceindependent of subjective d rives.
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Becker (1960) in an analysis of economic factors associated with fertility presented theoretical andfactualevidencefor a positive relationship between income and fertility.
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But one must admit that whereverfactualevidenceis not available, a historian has every right to offer his own interpretation of links between some, seemingly unconnected, events.
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Some will question our rejection of a purely environmental hypothesis simply on the grounds of implausibility, in the light of present knowledge, rather than on firm,factualevidence.
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The practitioners of 'professional' history, in a similar vein, tend to give primacy to 'factualevidence' in the form of artefacts or inscriptions in their quest for historical 'truth'.
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But we have nofactualevidencethat this practice is widespread, or that badgers are otherwise persecuted or cruelly treated by man.
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They have endorsed the thoroughness of our project and the way in which we achieved a balance of views based onfactualevidence.
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We found that thefactualevidencefor a causal relationship was slender.
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I have never been able to find that any adequatefactualevidenceto substantiate this statement was ever given at that time.
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We have been trying extremely hard to get solidfactualevidencefrom eye-witnesses of incidents where this could have been so.
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To be fair and consistent in all parts of the country, we need to work on the basis of suchfactualevidence.
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Finally, there is such a thing asfactualevidenceas well as scientific evidence.
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It is too early yet forfactualevidenceto be available of any improvement resulting from the introduction of the new arrangements.
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There was no such effect, which is clearfactualevidencethat there is no such link.
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Anyfactualevidenceobtained after the inquiry would be submitted to the parties for their observations before a decision is taken.
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Therefore, to say "applied within the territory" is more suitable to thefactualevidencewhich will be required when the case comes to be considered.
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