Example sentences of "[modal v] suggest [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie Howarth , executive director of ChildLine , said : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that a judge should suggest that a child is responsible for sexual abuse perpetrated upon her . ’ |
| 2 | Thus he might suggest that a patient makes contact with a helping agency ( e.g. a Family Planning Clinic , Citizens ' Advice Bureau , Cruse , Shelter , Friend , Gay Switchboard ) . |
| 3 | David Scott was not one of the more successful county politicians , and perhaps his attitude is a little too pure for the real world of eighteenth-century politics , but it represents , even if in an exaggerated form , the general political maxim that the politician performs friendly services for his friends without haggling over a bargain , or even implying that an understanding existed which might suggest that a vote was given for services rendered , or as in this case , for services which might be performed at a future date . |
| 4 | It is a matter for the coroner to decide whether the inquest should be held with a jury : section 19(3) ( d ) of the Act of 1988 might suggest that a jury is appropriate in this case . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , these data might suggest that a golden age of housing had arrived , but there is also clear evidence of substantial housing stress in Britain in the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | Moreover , constitutional lawyers may write about " old " Parliaments being able to bind and limit a " new " Parliament , and may suggest that a " new judicial attitude " ( whereby judges no longer accept that they are subordinate to Parliament ) would make for a fresh start so that " the doctrine that no Parliament can bind its successors becomes ancient history " , but these tricky legal formulations do not alter the fact that constitution-making occurs in the context of a political reality which limits what is feasible , acceptable , and enforceable . |
| 7 | No one outside of the wilder sects of the artificial intelligence fraternity would suggest that a device that translated morse into natural language characters on the screen of a computer was releasing the consciousness implicit in morse . |
| 8 | I would suggest that a 1 per cent solution of povidone iodine might be a safer alternative . |
| 9 | This would suggest that a spontaneous decline in the incidence of attempted suicide might be expected as greater numbers of people come into personal contact with someone who has attempted suicide and public attitudes towards attempters become more negative . |
| 10 | The practice of preparing materials for mass appeal would suggest that a degree of co-operation and co-ordination is appropriate , and instead of one or two libraries putting effort and resources into local campaigns a national approach to the problem of public library promotion should be taken . |
| 11 | I would suggest that a more natural and more effective approach would be to reverse this traditional pedagogic dependency , begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective . |
| 12 | I would suggest that a parallel with 1987 88 levels not 1985 would be more reasonable . |
| 13 | I would suggest that a section of the furniture competition be restricted to 100 per cent hand-made exhibits and without regard to the age of the competitor . |
| 14 | Thus , a cloze score of 60 per cent would indicate fairly full comprehension , 45 per cent would suggest some problems , while 35 per cent would suggest that a reader was at his or her frustration level . |
| 15 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 16 | Moreover , the importance which EEC law has now assumed in the UK would suggest that a book on UK statutory interpretation should deal with how EEC regulations should be interpreted , when directives have direct effect and so on . |
| 17 | However , the writer would suggest that a number of associations offer a service to their members in this particular form . |
| 18 | Mr Bruton said some would suggest that a United Nations presence could solve that problem . |
| 19 | In any event , we would suggest that a decision as to whether to advertise the opportunity is deferred at least until you have had an opportunity to review the output of the earlier search activity . |
| 20 | I , would suggest that a deposit of , say , £2 might be lodged with the notice of appeal which could be returned to the appellant immediately after the hearing . |
| 21 | erm , where I set out my interpretation of what that means , and I do n't think it 's very helpful to read that out to you , but I think you will find that it 's er erm a very broad er description of what the new settlement should be seeking to achieve , now Mr erm I think has misunderstood our position on this question of erm the appropriate size for the new settlement , and I think if I 'm correct he suggested that we were promoting a a size of fourteen hundred , the point I think I would make is that the larger the new settlement erm the greater the range and the quality of services and facilities that can be provided , and I think you have to distinguish between what developers say they are prepared to provide , on the one hand in a new settlement , whatever the size , the quality of the retail or recreational social facility that occupies that physical provision , and also its long term viability , and I would suggest that a larger new settlement of the size that we are suggesting , is much more likely to er attract a range of quality providers of services and facilities than a smaller new settlement , and also Mr Grantham er raised the issue of the question of the development program , and what might be expected in terms of services and erm during the development program , and of course I think that would be a matter for any specific proposal , or a ma a matter of discussion between the local planning authority concerned and the developer , and I would expect it to be something erm that was included within a section one O six agreement . |
| 22 | But if that that was only I was gon na say the other thing , when you 're talking about damage you know , at one time I would suggest that a good many years , you would n't see any damage out there . |
| 23 | occasionally a manager or agent will suggest that a band is ‘ available for session ’ . |
| 24 | Ask a modern psychic and he will suggest that a poltergeist is no more than the manifesting energy of a disturbed human being . |