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191is a substantially higher one than the requirement that the Crown prove its case"beyond a reasonable doubt" at trial.impugn 1For example, the respondent seeks to impugn Mr. Kong's credibility by pointing tohis inability to accurately describe his injuries in a manner consistent with themedical records.Linguistic behaviour of cooccurrents. When terms did not display a widevariety of left and right cooccurrents, contexts were selected on the basis of thepatterns that cooccurrents exhibited. It may be relevant for the description oftarget terms to account for the possibilities of the cooccurrents being single ormulti-word terms. What is more, even though the research only focuses onspecialized verbs for the time being, it may develop and include the descriptionof noun terms in the future. The patterns of the linguistic behaviour of the verbscooccurrents may be useful for that task.adduce 1In its re-examination of Marissa Bowles, the Crown adduced evidence of her priorconsistent statements.The respondent intends to file a second motion to adduce fresh evidence.Therefore, when an accused adduces straddle evidence, that evidence need notprove his or her blood alcohol level at the time of interception.Syntactic patterns. Contexts were selected when they contained differentsyntactic patterns of the terms. In the first sentence below, acquit is followed byan object without any other complement, whereas in the last two sentences theverb displays a complement headed by different prepositions after the object.The first three contexts of the set of twenty can illustrate this kind ofinformation.