Example sentences of "it suggests " in BNC.
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| 1 | Divorce has this effect because it suggests that remarriage in the lifetime of one 's first partner is socially and even morally acceptable' ( Irish Times , 6 June 1986 ; also 31 May 1986 ; 14 June 1986 ) . |
| 2 | It suggests that next time , with a little more luck , or hard work , success may come . |
| 3 | But the growing interest in it suggests that it offers both a possible way out of present impasses and a way forward . |
| 4 | It suggests that there are universal human qualities , and that people can recognize them in Shakespeare 's dramas , over the centuries and through many cultural mediations . |
| 5 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 6 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 7 | I have already explored in relation to Gide and others the kind of rebellion whose test they retrospectively failed , namely , transgression as a quest for authenticity : underpinning and endorsing the philosophy of individualism , it suggests that in defying a repressive social order we can dis-cover ( and so be true to ) our real selves . |
| 8 | If I had to give a single criterion of that dubious category , the homosexual sensibility , it would be this connection between perversity and paradox — if only because it suggests why that sensibility does not exist as such . |
| 9 | It suggests too why establishing personal culpability is not the issue . |
| 10 | It suggests too why the other of sexual fantasy may be stereotypical or two-dimensional in a way somehow at odds with the intensity and density of the desire which constructs it . |
| 11 | This innovation is especially significant as it suggests that Marx did not believe there was necessarily one set scheme of evolution which applied for the whole of mankind , the view which was held implicitly by most of Marx 's contemporaries . |
| 12 | And in addition , since the writer disassociates herself and most ‘ caring and considerate people ’ from the people who caused Zahira 's experiences , it suggests that nothing need be done to change the set-up which resulted in her tragic experience , that citizens whose government is racist and oppressive are in no way responsible for its policies . |
| 13 | Claiming the 1980s have been wasted in the development of elderly-care services , it suggests a three-year programme of community services development costing £700,000 — or another 1 per cent extra funding — in each health district . |
| 14 | It suggests at once beauty and brutality for some are born with black eyes and some are given them . |
| 15 | If so , it suggests that liberal policies will be implemented in Peru at least for a few months this year , whatever the general public thinks . |
| 16 | It suggests to the black who gets the job , and the white colleagues he meets , that he did not get there on merit , but because of the colour of his skin . |
| 17 | It suggests , too , the knife-edge path traversed by the adult writer between his overpowering response to physical and natural beauty and the self-defeating sense of unworthiness that he normally characterises , and displays , as a hampering shyness , a fear of rejection . |
| 18 | Still it is now part of the larger narrative , and read as that it suggests a period of peaceful coexistence before their final parting . |
| 19 | The formulation is strange , since it suggests that one can measure a person 's ability to conform to the law . |
| 20 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 21 | Rather it suggests that women should be allowed to differentiate . |
| 22 | His essay , ‘ Of Parents and Children ’ , still makes salutary reading , and by no means sings the praises of paternity ; it suggests that most of the ‘ noblest works ’ of civilisation have been accomplished by the childless . |
| 23 | It suggests a new trend in punctuation , or lack of . |
| 24 | It suggests that the market will continue to show growth of 2.9 per cent pa over the next five years despite the major question mark over recyclability and solvent emissions . |
| 25 | It suggests being sufficiently ‘ within' a situation to allow one 's intuition to work . |
| 26 | Wrangham 's theory remains tentative but if it stands up to further investigation it suggests that humans were primordially partrilineal . |
| 27 | It suggests that a human being could in theory obtain all the food he or she needed from a well-tended patio ! |
| 28 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |
| 29 | Also , if a woman at twenty-six is still a virgin it suggests she is not an overemotional type . |
| 30 | It suggests that injustices in this world may be rectified in the next . |