Example sentences of "one suspect that " in BNC.

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1 It ran right up and over his cheekbones , leading one to suspect that it was important for him to shave his eye sockets and forehead daily , if he wanted to avoid becoming altogether bestial .
2 Charles Brooke was not the only one to suspect that Vyner would lose interest in Sarawak and prefer a comfortable existence in England .
3 Sharp fulminated against any notion of equality of opportunity while the financial disparities between authorities remained , but his writing on the subject leads one to suspect that he viewed it as a ‘ shibboleth ’ in more ways than financial ones .
4 One suspects that it is his concession to a profound loneliness , a loneliness which he dare breach only at great cost to his true self , his equilibrium as thinker/artist .
5 Edberg sees the ball so early , hits it so sweetly and executes his shots so effectively , that one suspects that he could easily defy any West Indian or Australian pace attack .
6 Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament .
7 The plot is more than faintly ludicrous but the music is Rossini at his most inspired — even when one suspects that he is writing with tongue in cheek .
8 In many cases , one suspects that dealers are simply jealous of Gagosian for getting Saatchi 's business , but in others there do seem to be justifiable grievances .
9 One suspects that the language was no more beautiful in the German original than the English translation .
10 One suspects that Arsenal and Norwich are facing disrepute charges partly because of TV coverage at home and abroad and partly because between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning various sections of the media had built up a fine head of steam in demanding that the FA take action .
11 However , one suspects that British caution reflects traditional Thatcherite fears that the new Europeans will be reaching deep inside the British economy in studying mergers , thus diminishing the sovereignty of HMG .
12 One suspects that Ibsen , faced with a character like Quisling , would immediately have applied to join the Norwegian Resistance .
13 Proper proof , of course , would catapult Mr Winchester into the company of ponderous scholars ; one suspects that he ( and his readers ) would be happier if he remained simply one of literature 's best travel writers .
14 Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling .
15 One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses .
16 One suspects that Perkins , who died in 1967 , would not have been too concerned .
17 If he means by knowledge an accumulation of inconsequential facts then of course she would agree with him , but one suspects that in his concern for ‘ things of the heart ’ he is turning his back on the curiosity men share to know the world of objects .
18 One suspects that the position has been more complex where middle-class parents are concerned ; such parents may well be more assertive , and keen to support discipline but perhaps more divided about how it should be achieved .
19 Here one suspects that there is not so much a clash of ideology as one of gross distortion .
20 However , one suspects that the transition is illusory since the formidable constraints to translating techniques into widely-adopted practice only become fully apparent when the project is big enough potentially to have a significant impact .
21 In actual fact I have seen valuations which are so wide of the mark ( more than 50% in one case ) that one suspects that some valuers know little about the property market and even less about rebuilding costs , which constitute the basis for insurance .
22 This system has produced violently fluctuating interest rates , and one suspects that it is either the result of incredible stupidity or designed to discredit monetary policy .
23 One suspects that the other purposes of the 1988 Education Act , in particular the need to emphasise parental choice and to bring the brisk benefits of the winds of market forces to the education system , will mean that the summative , evaluative and informative purposes might squeeze out emphasis on the other two .
24 One suspects that more evaluation has been attempted than reported , partly because of this failure to complete the evaluation and partly because the techniques might be considered as too ‘ soft ’ ( simply qualitative or subjective ) or too ‘ hard ’ ( simply quantitative or objective ) .
25 No , one suspects that Chesky 's eyes are on the till , a suspicion confirmed by the billing on these 1962 recordings as ‘ DDD ’ .
26 One suspects that the David and Goliath nature of their ongoing battle may have swayed the decision further in Virgin 's direction .
27 Below the sober exterior , though , one suspects that there 's a bit of an animal lurking — and switching in the graphic equaliser and voice filter ( after having connected up the sub-woofer extension cabinet ) opens the cage door fairly wide .
28 One suspects that the ‘ old ’ Banks might have put Prentice in the arms of a real aunt , rather than a politely honoured friend of the family , and there are fewer than usual Gothic touches .
29 One suspects that both remarks testify to the dislike each woman provoked — despite their status as radical heroines — and which their current biographers share .
30 ‘ Here in the palace — though since none herein has seen hide or hair of him , one suspects that the king and his brother are under some form of house arrest . ’
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