Example sentences of "suggested that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is suggested that certain structures , which may appear metaphorical , are best treated as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 2 | Research on the development of various types of psychiatric disorder has so far suggested that close relationships tend to play the most crucial role in increasing or decreasing vulnerability . |
| 3 | Of these three , bad environment must of course be taken seriously , and it was not suggested that environmental factors did not play an important part in health deterioration , but ‘ environment is not the only factor so operative and possibly not the most important one ’ ( M'Gonigle and Kirby , 1936 , p. 148 ) . |
| 4 | Consequently , it is suggested that private citizens have difficulty with the forms , both in understanding what they say and in how they should be filled in , and with the hearings , which can be legalistic . |
| 5 | To conclude : I have suggested that conversational interactions , not just for speakers who obviously " straddle two cultures " but even for those who have traditionally been called " monolingual " and " monocultural " , involve the speaker in animating a series of personas which are realised linguistically and derive their symbolic value from their association with stereotypes which have reality and symbolic value for the interactants . |
| 6 | Mahathir also suggested that ASEAN leaders should meet more often as a group . |
| 7 | It is only fair to say , though , that work by some econometricians ( see page 103 ) has suggested that optimum rates of TV advertising require far less frequency than this , at least for well-established brands . |
| 8 | He has suggested that rare collisions between the earth and comets , recorded as scatters of tektites , must have produced vast quantities of energy that would have been sufficient to heat up considerably both the atmosphere arid the surface layers of the oceans . |
| 9 | As several million years are required for the transfer of a significant amount of heat to the surface of continental lithosphere , it has been suggested that hot spots are most likely to develop where the lithosphere is more or less stationary with respect to sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies as this would allow time for sustained heating to occur . |
| 10 | It was suggested that female spiders , by cannibalizing courting males , have actively selected for small male size . |
| 11 | It is suggested that defective receipts should not be accepted , but should be sent back to be corrected . |
| 12 | We have already suggested that corporatist arrangements may lack stability and staying power , especially in the context of recession , and that the other side of the coin to those arrangements is the unincorporated politics of protest . |
| 13 | However , it has been suggested that long-term factors still favour further consolidation . |
| 14 | Although such behaviour corresponds closely to the descriptions of other feral children , it is impossible to know whether these children might have developed similar patterns of behaviour even if brought up in greater contact with people , and it has been suggested that feral children might have been abandoned by their parents because of their behaviour problems . |
| 15 | A variety of investigations conducted within the USSR itself also suggested that Soviet nationalities policy might be achieving at least some of its objectives . |
| 16 | For cervical cancer it has been suggested that physiological reasons make it more difficult to take good smears from older women . |
| 17 | It has been suggested that young birds use their magnetic sense to orient a compass based on the sun and the stars . |
| 18 | In chapter 2 it was suggested that political responses to economic crisis were lagged and variable . |
| 19 | It has been suggested that similar reactions may take place on background sulphate aerosols in the Antarctic stratosphere , but as yet there has been no unambiguous evidence for these reactions in the absence of polar stratospheric clouds ( although there have been observations of ozone loss attributed to volcanic aerosols ) . |
| 20 | For example , in discussing the way in which normal children develop language , Slobin ( 1973 ) has suggested that new functions are first learned using existing language forms or structures and , conversely , new forms or structures are first used to express well-established functions . |
| 21 | It was suggested that other generals , most notably , the Army Chief of Staff , Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg , had favoured Jatoi , a Sindhi , as Prime Minister " in the interests of national unity " . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that non-cognitive theories of ethics do best with those ethical words such as ‘ good ’ and ‘ ought ’ which are most plausibly represented as purely valuational , while cognitivist theories ( which take moral knowledge and truth seriously ) do best with words such as ‘ brave ’ ’ loyal' and so forth ( LOVIBOND ) . |
| 23 | It has more frequently been suggested that dilute sources will promote visits to many nowers and thus out-crossing , though it is difficult to see how such a mechanism could arise , and perhaps it is more satisfactory to surmise that visits by a pollen-dusted vector to several flowers on one plant are promoted , leading to cross fertilization of more . |
| 24 | Even given this complicating variability in pH levels , researchers have suggested that human activities have caused a dramatic increase in the acidity of precipitation at local , regional and perhaps even global scales ( Likens et al. , 1979 ) . |
| 25 | It has already been suggested that informal methods of dispute-resolution in the family arena are not new , nor are they alternatives to legal regulation . |
| 26 | It was suggested that standard-sized boxes or crates be obtained for visitors to use for Herbarium sheets which needed to be moved around . |
| 27 | Many authors have suggested that single measures of input or output should not be used in evaluating research groups , institutions , or nations . |
| 28 | It was suggested that cultural differences would gradually be eroded also and that working class people would take on bourgeois , or middle class , lifestyles . |
| 29 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 30 | The Irish Times meantime had suggested that British Telecommunications Plc and AT&T Co were bidding for a stake in Telecom Eireann ; a spokeswoman for Telecom Eireann said that the company had received an assurance from the Irish government that there were no plans for its privatisation . |