Example sentences of "[verb] suggest [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She had no idea why he had telephoned her , though she did n't put it out of the realms of possibility that , having gone away when he 'd promised to think about the interview , he might well have rung to suggest some alternative .
2 Instead , I shall draw on some of what has evolved over the last half century as ‘ curriculum theory ’ in education to try to suggest some frameworks and perspectives for analysing the wealth of detail which the system displays .
3 So I want to suggest that success , if I have perhaps have slightly persuaded you that the media are worth taking seriously , that success comes through a variety of things .
4 Starting from a point further back in the development of a theory of television than that from which Steve Neale begins for cinema , I want to suggest some ways of thinking about television genre , which , though they will not deal with particular programme categories , may open out some more complex ways of thinking about the aesthetics and poetics of television .
5 Whitley ( 1990 : 63 ) has suggested that enterprise structures which are premised on producing a relatively concentrated range of related products will tend , of necessity , to resort to market relations in order to complement this narrow base , an option which more imperatively co-ordinated organizations will not require .
6 The CBI has suggested that petrol prices be raised faster than inflation , and that the current scale of taxes on company cars , at present related to engine capacity , should be altered to favour more fuel-efficient cars .
7 Whitley ( 1990 : 64 ) has suggested that specialization , when associated with relative homogeneity in the nature of employees , will minimize transaction costs .
8 Following the identification of these sites , further work has suggested many reasons for their disappearance .
9 Reg Pyne , director for professional conduct at the UKCC , has suggested six definitions of the Code :
10 For example , a study of the Sussex village of Ringmer by Peter Ambrose , The Quiet Revolution , has suggested this pattern , but as yet his findings remain unconfirmed elsewhere .
11 Now the Home Office Minister Lord ferrers has suggested disused RAF stations like Kemble in Gloucestershire should be used as permanent sites for travellers .
12 ‘ Pool has suggested another way , ’ she said .
13 Wilson ( 1975 ) has suggested another reason for the division between positivist criminology and penology : the causal variables that were proposed related to areas that were difficult to change — especially with the limited powers and resources available to penal practitioners .
14 Brisbane ( 1981 ) has suggested three modes of production for pottery in early Anglo-Saxon England ; vessels for domestic use were made on settlements ; specialised vessels were made for funerary use , both as a grave-good with inhumation burials and for containing cremated remains ; and a relatively small quantity of imported wares .
15 The preceding section has suggested some ways in which these dimensions align themselves in Japan .
16 Leigh has suggested some refinements to the chronology and the sequence of development ( 1984b ) ; 192 such brooches are known suggesting that the minimum output was a little under two per year .
17 The protectorate agreement came just as the Russo-Japanese War seemed to suggest new hopes of Asian independence , and Japan 's claim to champion the cause of Korean modernization and Asian nationalism was rendered particularly insulting by the brutality with which all manifestations of anti-Japanese sentiment were suppressed under the protectorate .
18 I would imagine that if we 'd suggested that project engineering duties would beco
19 They depicted British cinema as indifferent to art , lacking drive and sense of direction and , in their distaste for the commercial orientation of the system , failed to suggest any ways to reform it .
20 When Knightley further asked if Blake was helped by the KGB , IRA , or activists in the Committee of 100 , Philby interrupted to suggest that SIS ( MI6 ) may have been involved .
21 Using an author 's view of what he considers a ‘ derived ’ publication may also be somewhat open to subjective interpretation , because some authors will want to suggest different degrees of derivation than others , whereas using a published bibliography ought , in theory , to be more objective , provided one can be sure of one 's identification .
22 We were going to suggest second year undergraduates were conscripted to build it .
23 This does not mean that I am not going to suggest some home truths : only that I think they are truths , and not another uncomprehending outsider 's attempt to cajole , belittle or malign people who are struggling to do their best in a complex and stressful situation , and who know better than anyone else that their best sometimes is n't very good .
24 For further information on the above or if you would like to suggest additional venues speak to :
25 I propose simply to map out broad characteristics , though the analytical language of contrast tends to suggest categorical qualities which are unintended .
26 Other academics , including some from abroad , will be invited to suggest future directions for research .
27 In this essay , I have attempted to suggest some ways in which we might look beyond the conceptual dichotomy between ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ , villagers and bureaucrats , to ask how the dynamic of interaction across the boundary is played out .
28 And I shall try to suggest some ways of beginning to think about ‘ autonomy ’ which seem to me to be more fruitful and adequate , and to draw on different traditions of thinking about the self which have become influential in some recent feminist thinking .
29 Thus , if the historical evidence seems to suggest that meat merged with mate , this can not be a valid interpretation according to this principle , because if it had happened then both meat and mate would subsequently have been eligible for merger with meet : speakers would not have known the difference .
30 The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar .
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