Example sentences of "suggest that [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave .
2 There was also evidence to suggest that 35% of the total number of packets reaching the Upazila Health Complexes were not distributed ; a proportion was kept as buffer stock , the rest was wasted ( ie. its shelf-life was allowed to expire ) .
3 This might suggest that people with better memories for driving situations have fewer accidents .
4 A recent study by the University of Michigan suggests that 90% of the parts in Japanese cars built in America come either direct from Japan or from Japanese manufacturers which have set up shop in the United States .
5 The study 's long-term tracking of the impact of acquisitions suggests that 80% of the acquiring banks fall into one of these two categories ( in a ratio of three to two respectively ) .
6 According to McGuire et al ( 1987 ) the literature suggests that 80% of elderly people admitted to geriatric hospitals are on medication and 10% are admitted with iatrogenic drug-related problems .
7 First , because there are still far more betrayed women than men around : the percentage of wives playing away may have risen from 26% in the 50s to around 40% now , but a conservative estimate suggests that 60% of husbands have cheated at least once — and one US survey puts the figure as high as 82% .
8 The interesting study by Brannen and Collard ( 1982 ) on the process of seeking help when marriages are failing , suggests that kin in some ways are less important than earlier studies had suggested .
9 A first-order estimate suggests that 40% of sediment eroded from the slopes reached the lake ; the remaining 60% was stored as colluvium in marginal embayments ( Fig. 1 ) .
10 The evidence available to the Board of prices paid for land for development suggests that sales at or near existing use value are more the exception than the rule .
11 A survey conducted at the beginning of this year suggested that 96% of securities fraud cases are settled before coming to trial .
12 A report on China 's economy by the World Bank ( May 1983 ) suggested that 4% to 6% annual GDP growth could leave China needing to import up to 32 million tonnes of oil a year by 1990 .
13 A study by Wing and Brown ( 1970 ) suggested that people with schizophrenia were likely to respond to understimulation by withdrawal and regression .
14 I suggested that people in Britain were acutely aware of the relation between accent and class .
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