Example sentences of "been suggest [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you been suggesting that the dead girl might have been your father 's mistress ? ’ |
| 2 | The ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ faction has been suggesting that the National Front abandon the pretence of attempting to build a mass party . |
| 3 | Drawing a parallel with domestic appliances , such as refrigerators and freezers , which may be used in laboratories , it has been suggested that the average electricity consumption of newly purchased appliances in the UK is considerably higher than the best available in Europe . |
| 4 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 5 | Bile or components of bile have been identified as potential carcinogens in other organs such as the colon or pancreas and it has been suggested that the increased risk of developing gastric cancer after gastric surgery is a function of duodenogastric reflux . |
| 6 | It has also been suggested that the possible imposition of obligations upon signature may deter States from taking that step . |
| 7 | It has been suggested that the young man was Mark himself . |
| 8 | It has been suggested that the appropriate test is ‘ whether the parties are making some serious promises or undertakings ’ which are intended by them to be acted and relied upon . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 10 | It has been suggested that the self-advocacy movement offers a model of growth and development against which professional assumptions and approaches can be tested . |
| 11 | It has been suggested that the cyclic AMP and InsP 3 messenger pathways may interact with each other to enhance odorant discrimination . |
| 12 | Generally those xenobiotic enzymes that are expressed in normal colon are present in small quantities ( our finding of patchy focal staining of surface epithelium would support this ) and it has been suggested that the low level of expression of biotransformation enzymes in normal colon could result in a critically low detoxification value , and hence increase the chances of carcinogenesis taking place in this tissue . |
| 13 | It has also been suggested that the comparative approach may help to develop explanatory theory of greater power and generality ( e.g. Bean 1985 : 7 ; Shalev 1980 ) . |
| 14 | It has been suggested that the rapid increase in the Muslim population during this period can not be attributed to the mass conversion of Bogomils , as the greatest increases were recorded in the areas where Bogomils were fewer in number , especially in the towns . |
| 15 | It has been suggested that the prevalent west and south-west winds tend to set up a longshore drift towards Portland , so that the majority of coarse material accumulates at that end . |
| 16 | It has often been suggested that the active self-government practised by the Athenians was only made possible by the existence of slavery , and perhaps also by the existence of empire as a source of revenue to pay for democracy . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that the magnetic field observed outside Mercury and which is consistent with an interior dipole source , arises instead from magnetized rocks near the surface , which happen to produce a net field which mimics that of an internal dipole source with the observed and expected low inclination with respect to the spin axis . |
| 19 | His change of heart may well have been motivated more by politics than economics — it has been suggested that the British government 's persistent efforts to block the Market were enough to convince de Gaulle of its virtues — but the economic implications of allowing the Common Market to take effect on schedule were profound . |
| 20 | It has been suggested that the wild man , or wood-wose , who appears so often in medieval literature , is a conventional figure typifying madness and deriving from the mad king Nebuchadnezzar , who was ‘ driven away from among men , and did eat grass like an ox , and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles , and his nails like birds claws . ’ |
| 21 | It has been suggested that the special fear of the cat jumping up on them in an unexpected way is the result of cat phobics ' general dislike of spontaneity and fear of the suddenly surprising . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that the voluntary agreement makes no reference to children and young people , but that is not true . |