Example sentences of "suspect that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Russian exiles have long suspected that spies had been planted in their midst by the KGB , and for some the advertisements confirmed their darkest fears . |
| 2 | Occasionally it was suspected that the behaviour of respondents was being affected by the presence of the field-worker , to what extent it is impossible to estimate , but this is the disadvantage of all overt research techniques and is not unique to ethnography . |
| 3 | Some Conservatives also suspected that the welfare ethic — by removing the risks and disciplines of the market , providing a cushion for failures , and undermining incentives for the ambitious — weakened enterprise . |
| 4 | Mr Savoy , who is based at the Andean Explorers and Ocean Sailing Club in Reno , Nevada , has long suspected that ancient man had far more trans-oceanic contacts than most orthodox historians accept . |
| 5 | Where it is suspected that a piece is made up of unrelated fragments , the composition can sometimes be studied to sort out which fragments are original , or at least which ones belong together . |
| 6 | Yet this was a period when the English Civil War was at its height ; from the coins themselves we would never have suspected that such a large proportion of minting in the war years of 1639–47 was the result of a commercial agreement between the two countries and not just of the high levels of expenditure caused by the war . |
| 7 | The project was a complete success in that the Russians never suspected that their Moscow traffic was being read . |
| 8 | For some time it was suspected that Camp Mill was the site , but this now appears unlikely . |
| 9 | At some point or other , though Jack has never discussed the possibility in public , he appears to have suspected that all might not be as it seemed in the Nicholson household . |
| 10 | When asking for his correspondence with the Treasury to be published , Hall could hardly have suspected that this was to be one of his last official acts . |
| 11 | I have often suspected that by raking through the telephone directory according to a number code , you could extract a secret message . |
| 12 | Daughter Elizabeth later refined the laws and increased the penalties , partly because she and her advisers often suspected that there were occult plots against the throne . |
| 13 | Mary often suspected that he was with his grandmother and involved in her shady activities , though her mother would always deny it . |
| 14 | Cytogeneticists have long suspected that these chromosomal anomalies are linked with cancer , but only now has their message been deciphered . |
| 15 | It is suspected that the peat serves as a sediment filter in the watershed of Lake Kinneret . |
| 16 | Astronomers have long suspected that flares also produce neutrons that reach the Earth 's orbit , but they lacked the instruments needed to detect them . |
| 17 | The police initially strongly suspected that she had been involved ; her story kept changing and was filled with inconsistencies . |
| 18 | Queen Victoria 's children , Alice and Albert jnr , had their bumps felt because their mother strongly suspected that little Albert might be ‘ rather stupid ’ . |
| 19 | Most experts think normal cells probably have to undergo several mutations in order to become cancerous ; and it is generally suspected that the mouse cells — a laboratory line known as NIH 3T3 cells — have already undergone numerous mutations and are hovering on the brink of becoming cancerous . |
| 20 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 21 | He must have suspected that his all British commission was hardly the kind of body that Kenyans either needed or were likely to listen to in 1972 . |
| 22 | It was suspected that Alexander Peden was sheltering at Priesthill and Claverhouse hoped to ‘ catch two birds with the one stone ’ . |
| 23 | Amazingly , during this trial year nobody ever suspected that I was a womon , though I occasionally got called ‘ poofter ’ . |
| 24 | He was gone for about half an hour and I do n't think any of us even suspected that there was something amiss . |
| 25 | Today , he had suspected that something was brewing . |
| 26 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |
| 27 | For some time it has been suspected that these voltages affect aquarium fish , causing stress and possibly disease . |
| 28 | Obviously , this is a very personal thing , but I 've always suspected that inlays like these will turn out to have a very short lifespan in terms of popular appeal . |
| 29 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 30 | She could never have suspected that at that very moment , the camera maker 's future prosperity hung in the balance . |