Example sentences of "[be] suggest [conj] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There is an item about this joint staffing watch at item ten , which suggests that the government are also finding that it 's got limited use , and are suggesting that these returns should be completed on a different basis , and rather than quarterly , annually .
2 Later on we shall be suggesting that some CONFLICTS in marriage can be seen as an attempt to put right experiences which have gone wrong in the past .
3 It could not be suggested that these justices in the instant case did not take time to consider the matter and it is not suggested , nor could it be , that they did not take a great deal of care in carrying out their duties .
4 Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties .
5 And Hulme stormed back , ‘ But using ‘ sexual harassment ’ to describe someone who says ‘ Phwooar ! ’ is to suggest that all men are animals .
6 In what is perhaps the most usual response to these altered judgements against crime between pre-war and postwar years , of course , it is suggested that such incidents have become ‘ more serious ’ or ‘ more violent ’ as the years have gone by .
7 It is suggested that such students should be encouraged to publish during the tenure of their studentships , so that new findings may be incorporated quickly and permanently into the literature of the subject .
8 It is suggested that such students should be encouraged to publish during the tenure of their studentships , so that new findings may be incorporated quickly and permanently into the literature of the subject .
9 The use of the microphone by some students this year undoubtedly helped those students who lacked confidence in their ability to project their voices , and it is suggested that more students should try using the sound system to gain experience for the future .
10 It is suggested that these observations can be reconciled by appeal to contestable markets theory — where potential competition restrains the profitability of intermediaries , together with shifts in bargaining power towards end users of funds .
11 However , it is suggested that these points of convergence should not be allowed to disguise important differences in values and assumptions between the two positions .
12 What little evidence there is suggests that these dispositions were interpreted as trusts .
13 At Great Dunmow , for instance , it has been suggested that such strips were up to c. 100 m ( 327 ft ) deep , while the Fosse Way southwest of Ilchester was lined by two successive rows of enclosures some 50 by 20 m ( 165 by 66 ft ) in size .
14 It has been suggested that such provisos are not effective in protecting a landlord from the severity of the law and can not be set up as a defence to the claim that by accepting rent the breach of covenant has been waived .
15 It has been suggested that such sediments are characteristic of aseismic continental shelves as they move away from a mid-oceanic ridge .
16 It has been suggested that such terranes are equivalent to oceanic plateaus , which are to be found in the present-day ocean basins and which often rise several kilometres above the adjacent ocean floor ( Fig. 3.32 ) .
17 It had been suggested that many futurologists that greatly increased leisure for the multitudes will result from automation , computerisation , nuclear energy and other technological advances .
18 Carlo was made a cardinal at 22 and Archbishop of Milan at 26 , though it has been suggested that these appointments were as much due to the boy 's uncle being Pope Pius IV as to any inherent abilities .
19 More recently , however , it has been suggested that these subgovernments have been increasingly complemented by the development of what are called ‘ issue networks ’ .
20 As it had been suggested that these cars should resemble the London United bogie cars , they had short canopies and double flight stairs , changing direction at a small landing half way up .
21 They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort .
22 It has been suggested that some sounds are distracting than others and that there are certain kinds of mental activity that are more at risk than others .
23 Even though it was suggested that such crises may at some point lead to a collapse of the system , this is not inevitable nor even highly probable .
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