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

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1 Snobbery may provide one answer : in his supposed solidarity with his own kind , he may not have wished to suggest that a tenant farmer could prove more generous of spirit than the laird .
2 Gently , Anna tried to suggest that a life free of an ageing queen had a great deal to recommend it .
3 East Germany 's prosecutor general has suggested that a parliamentary committee should investigate charges of corruption and power abuse by state and party officials .
4 More recently work from the Boiron Laboratories in Lyon has suggested that a 7C potency of Arsenicum album caused a significant excretion of arsenic by arsenic-poisoned rats as compared with a 7C potency of water used as a control , thus confirming the earlier observations with the guinea-pigs .
5 But if , for example , the Law Commission in a law reform proposal has suggested that a proposition is ripe for alteration by statute , that would seriously erode the importance of the proposition .
6 An experienced maritime law practitioner has suggested that a charter party bill accompanied by a ‘ Master 's ’ bill of lading showing freight paid or prepaid would eliminate this uncertainty .
7 Other evidence has suggested that a double influence operates in the development of leukaemia at ages 5–24 , part early , the other late ( possibly analogous to the way that early and persisting pestivirus infection in cattle alters the response to later infection by a different strain .
8 The detailed phasing of this morphological information presents major problems in the absence of large-scale , modern excavations , but a recent reassessment of the early excavation reports has suggested that a major remodelling of the town centre occurred apparently in the mid to late second century .
9 Hubert has suggested that a rank-frequency model , based on ranked tables of authors according to their productivity , should give results which are independent of the total size of the population sampled .
10 Hubert has suggested that a rank-frequency model , based on ranked tables of authors according to their productivity , should give results which are independent of the total size of the population sampled .
11 In a recent article , Pearcy ( 1990 ) has suggested that a general function of the explicit moral in a fabliau , where there is one , is to express a dialectical opposition between social convention — in particular the supposedly sanctifying constraints of Christian marriage — and individual libertarianism , in particular extra-marital sexual indulgence .
12 Can I bring you erm back to the U K and what we can do in the U K , although I agree with you , we need to be looking with certain organisations at regulation on a Trans-Atlantic basis , but from a U K point of view , erm the Good Committee Report has suggested that a pensions regulator should er be brought into being .
13 The Independent of Nov. 15 had meanwhile published details of internal UN documents which seemed to suggest that a UN official had handed over to the Moroccan government information supplied in confidence by the Polisario Front .
14 A variety of arguments are offered to suggest that a statutory definition would be a bad idea or impossible .
15 er on the other hand er the arguments inside the er document seem to suggest that a a certificate of , of conformo conformalities conformity erm could be issued er within the terms of the , the numbers specified because on the case of the housing the numbers are rather small and in the case of the er business floor space there , they 're probably even less significant erm and I wondered why that was n't put in the recommendation .
16 I would like to suggest that a rigid model of permanent placement and of methods of achieving it is no longer appropriate , given the much wider range of needs of children .
17 Er , certainly evidence seems to suggest that a very genuine and close relationship developed with his father .
18 Although the Consultation Draft issued before the COB Rules were introduced suggested that a third party client of an SRO member should not be treated as identified even if the firm knew his name and address ( if that was all ) , this suggested exclusion was eventually dropped ; accordingly , such knowledge is fatal .
19 This would seem to suggest that a high price , in terms of efficiency , is paid for democracy .
20 ‘ Are you honestly trying to suggest that a drugs ring could be operating right under my nose without my knowledge ? ’
21 With tongue in cheek , the writer had suggested that a deal be struck with Britain over the Six Counties in the North .
22 Separately and in different ways , Susan Sontag and George Steiner have suggested that a ( or ‘ the ’ ) homosexual sensibility is a major influence in the formation of modern culture .
23 Following the two multimeter add-ons described in the last two instalments of Circuit Surgery , several readers have suggested that a simple device for directly measuring capacitance would be extremely useful .
24 A number of studies have suggested that a visual — spatial code might be available ( O'Connor and Hermelin , 1973 ) , or that dactylic coding ( fingerspelling ) may be used ( Locke and Locke , 1971 ; Hoemann , 1978 ) , or that both may occur ( Domic , Hagdahl and Hanson , 1973 ) .
25 Some commentators have suggested that a movement of less than 5% in the price of the shares in question would most probably be regarded as not material .
26 I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique .
27 Some commentators have suggested that a decline in the family ownership of companies has meant that a ruling class based on the ownership of the means of production no longer exists .
28 We have suggested that a suitable way of evaluating medical genetics services is by measuring their effect on people 's ability to have the family they want ( that is , ‘ reproductive confidence ’ ) .
29 In general , studies have suggested that a large accidental release could cause large numbers of early fatalities and large numbers of latent cancers , but the probability of such a release is low .
30 We have suggested that a feature of leadership is the ability to stand back and take the wider perspective .
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