31.   He asked the judge for permission to play four secretly taped conversations the defense believes could prove its theory that there was a conspiracy to ruin Anwar.

32.   Inspection of the door proved his theory.

33.   The defense team had hoped to play the taped recording Monday of the conversation it says would prove its theory that there was a conspiracy to ruin Anwar.

34.   The Enterra theory is not proved, Schultz said.

35.   The researchers said the new fossil may ultimately help prove the theory that flight evolved in tree dwellers, rather than in ground animals.

36.   Using a can of cat food inside a coffee tin and reversed airflow from a vacuum cleaner, he proved his theory on the mud floor of his boatyard.

37.   With unimpressive academic credentials, Heyerdahl had set to prove his theories that civilizations were spread by ancient mariners aboard flimsy craft by showing that it could be done.

38.   Freedman also said he had yet to prove his theory by locating the mutation that would link the schizophrenic trait to the nicotine receptor gene.

39.   He tried to prove his theories by testing the ingredients on sheep for many years before realising that such water must occur naturally somewhere.

40.   They insist, however, that they have no hard evidence to prove any theory at this stage.