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

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1 I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function .
2 I suggest that a few moments here on deck will suffice . ’
3 I suggest that a lot of so-called ‘ equal opportunity ’ is based on political myth — ignoring our in-built sex differences .
4 The hon. Member for Gateshead , East looks doubtful , but in a debate in the other place yesterday , Baroness Hollis of Higham said : ’ Thirdly I suggest that a few functions would appropriately come up from the county councils . ’
5 I suggested that a full scale test should be conducted on a discarded Vanguard fuselage fitted with a similar representative tailplane unit .
6 With some trepidation , I suggested that a major economic reform in the Soviet Union would not be introduced without a major political reform .
7 The Statutes of Westminster apparently extended the law of rape to cover all women , not merely virgins , but there is nothing in them to suggest that a man could be liable for rape of a woman with whom he had previously had consensual sexual intercourse .
8 ‘ Are you suggesting that a commitment is beyond me ? ’
9 This is a result that is much easier to account for if we suggest that a body clock is responsible for the alternation between sleep and activity .
10 We seem to be on firmer ground , however , if we suggest that a singer who draws upon a training in the English choral tradition will not readily perform in a way that is bogus , trivial or solipsistic , for the choral tradition is none of those things ; it embodies the results of countless individual strivings for the best results in conformity to a communal discipline .
11 From the point of view of natural creation , however , dare we suggest that a not altogether unfeeling God introduced the sound as a warning to its prey , so that in the natural economy , mosquitoes did not have an unfair advantage and that all warm-blooded creatures in mosquito-infested areas were not permanently condemned to a life of itching and scratching !
12 In the previous section we suggested that a government could use taxes and welfare benefits to redistribute income-earning potential and thereby enforce its value judgements about equity while leaving the market economy to take care of allocative efficiency .
13 General pictures of what happens during the middle years are inevitably flawed , but they suggest that a change often takes place in marriage at that time and that for many people satisfactions come from sources outside the couple 's relationship .
14 They suggest that a couple should be allowed to get divorced after one year without having to attribute blame for the split .
15 They suggested that a public access catalogue would be a suitably demanding trial application .
16 Nevertheless , he suggests that a kind of valid knowledge can be developed here , based on careful and consistent description rather than on explanation .
17 Methodologically , Coffield suggests that explanations must move from individualistic psychological ones to collectivistic , sociological ones ( how economic explanations fit in is somewhat unclear ) ; politically he suggests that a minimum income must be the answer .
18 He suggests that a woman may be allowed to sit at his feet , rather than preoccupy herself with cooking .
19 He suggests that a cloud of cosmic dust hides the planet from us .
20 ’ To give examples , he suggests that a kayak should have a jettisoning pod to prevent entrapment situations without making it clear that the buyer is unlikely to find one on the market .
21 At the same time , he suggests that a unified description could be given in terms of a theory of discourse .
22 He suggested that a start to answering these questions should be made at a 35-nation European summit , under the auspices of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe , which the Soviet Union has suggested be brought forward towards the end of next year .
23 The interpretation put forward here is not fundamentally different from that offered by Jaynes when he suggested that a tendency to emit ( a fractional version of ) the response acquired in the first stage would serve as a mediating process in the second , and that the salience of the mediator would depend on the magnitude of the initial response of which it was a fraction .
24 He suggested that a world modelled on the screen pattern would be one with ‘ no farming , no manufacturing , almost no industry , no vital statistics ( excepting murder ) , almost no science , no economic problems and no economics .
25 He suggested that a tendency to report first the material entering the right ear might allow information from the left ear to decay in short term memory and thus give rise to the observed superiority of the right ear .
26 And he suggested that a suitable punishment would be for you to lose your sight .
27 He suggested that a residual motion of the fibres was present in the dark , so that true blacks could be seen only in daylight , by comparison with surrounding objects .
28 He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour .
29 He suggested that a committee should examine the country 's ties to the Queen .
30 The early part of this chapter indicated that there is already a reasonable consensus that managing schools in the future will be different — equally it suggested that a simplistic ‘ chief executive , model is not universally accepted as the way forward , and that such a model is indeed a profoundly conservative one .
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