Example sentences of "[noun] suggest [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 These authorities suggest that a promise to pay money , or to do any other act , in a certain event but without any express or implied request to the promisee to bring about , or to promise to bring about , that event , is made without consideration .
2 Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly .
3 Latest figures from conservation groups suggest that a total of 24,000 pairs of arctic terns bred during the 1991 season , producing at least 30,000 young .
4 For Hutchison 's managing director , and other investors in Hong Kong , such shifts suggest that a prolonged power struggle may be underway .
5 There is some authority for saying that the ‘ sufficient interest ’ test applies to such actions ; but there are also dicta suggesting that a stricter rule should apply to such actions on the ground that leave is not required to bring actions begun by writ or originating summons .
6 In these subjects the OR continued to occur at a high level throughout training , a result suggesting that a stimulus that fails to predict its consequences reliably will continue to receive some form of processing .
7 These data suggest that a cohort effect may contribute to the pattern of increasing prevalence of H pylori infection seen with increasing age .
8 These characteristics suggest that a number of preconditions are necessary before the addition of Rhizobium to either plant or soil will be effective in promoting nitrogen enhancement .
9 The results of this study suggest that a short primer course and prolongation of therapy may help to enhance the response rate of α-interferon therapy for chronic hepatitis type B.
10 Whereas the test designers suggest that a teacher without specialist knowledge might give the test as a screening device to identify the existence of articulation problems , the analysis of the nature of the errors and the appropriate forms of intervention ought to be left for an expert in phonological analysis .
11 The work with patients who had the delusion of being watched , and who spoke of the watcher as another person in terms like the following : ‘ He is waiting for me to go now ’ , or ‘ He thinks I should do such and such ’ , had first led Freud to suggest that a part of a person 's ego can keep watch over another part .
12 There must be no lecturing to those who are hardest hit and no attempt to suggest that a fuss is being made about nothing .
13 This has led authors to suggest that a rate somewhere between these two rates should be utilized — a synthetic rate .
14 The drawing suggests that a good fit has been achieved .
15 The drawing suggests that a number of balls are available for this and they are just pushed into the hole one alter the other until it is filled and a surface can be laid on top of it .
16 Keynes suggested that a scheme of deferred pay , to be repaid to the workers after the war , would ease the problem .
17 Kinmond and colleagues ' study suggests that a short delay may improve outcome without any obvious deleterious effects .
18 Although the present study suggests that a reduction in blood flow may precede disease recurrence as defined by clinical and biochemical criteria , it does not support the suggestion that a perfusion defect is an essential precursor to mucosal ulceration .
19 The evidence from this study suggests that a very strong case can be made for widening access to higher education for mature students who do not possess standard entry qualifications .
20 Another study suggested that a subject would need to breathe aerosolised air around a shower for 227 minutes to inhale one bacterial cell .
21 They are connected to the rest mass through the relation given in Section 1.3 : This intimate connection of mass , energy and momentum suggests that a general law of gravitation will contain not just mass but energy and momentum as well .
22 Recent work by Bartlett and Ghoshal suggests that a further stage in corporate development will be required by the successful companies of the 1990s .
23 Latest research suggests that a firm rebuttal will kill any rumour within 24 hours .
24 Some recent research suggests that a step increase in [ CO 2 ] above the current 350μmolmol -1 produces little or no short-term ( 3 years ) increase in plant or ecosystem carbon storage where low temperatures or nutrient ( particularly nitrogen ) availability currently restrict plant growth .
25 However , other research suggests that a disturbance of maturation of the brain may be involved .
26 The research suggests that a similar pattern may apply to rarer species such as lapwings and redstarts .
27 In children older than 11 months both the univariate and multivariate analyses suggest that a respiratory rate of 60/min is preferable to the suggested 70/min as a cut off value for the prediction of hypoxaemia .
28 Second , past trends in Scotland and North-West England suggest that a relatively high proportion of newly established firms are non-union , and this is particularly so in new-town locations .
29 It is no exaggeration to suggest that a player of his undoubted skills would command a regular place at any other county outside Essex , yet fate dealt him an inordinately bum hand last season , limited opportunities , loss of form and a broken index finger combining to dent his confidence .
30 In 1989 the same committee suggested that a possible slight shortage of doctors might occur by the first decade of the twenty first century .
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