Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] suggest that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The technical literature suggests that structural factors may have been more important than price factors in explaining the persistent deficit .
2 Antidiarrhoeal agents , broad spectrum antibiotics , cholestyramine , sulphasalazine , and oral corticosteroids have all been used but anecdotal experience suggests that satisfactory control of diarrhoea is rarely achieved .
3 Recent scientific research suggests that daily fish oil can help to maintain a healthy heart , and circulation .
4 Historical documentation suggests that /a/ backing is a recent trend .
5 Many people writing about negative attitudes towards old age suggest that such attitudes are widely held and refer to most old people .
6 But theoretical analysis suggests that credible punishment strategies may need to be quite subtle and sophisticated , which leads to the conclusion that so-called ‘ tacit ’ collusion may in practice turn out to be ‘ secret ’ collusion .
7 It would , however , be an historical untruth to suggest that all Palestinians felt as generously as Damiani towards those who now own the lands that belonged to them .
8 Roman experience suggests that these fears were rational : one cause of the Social War of 91–88 BC was Roman military dependence on her allies ; this dependence was not recognized and rewarded by extra privileges such as citizenship , so the allies turned their fighting experience against Rome herself .
9 Subsequently , they have been reported to be as effective as corticosteroids in treating patients with active Crohn 's disease , and one controlled , but non-randomised trial suggested that elemental diet was actually superior to corticosteroid treatment .
10 Alpheus Hyatt used an analogy with the life-cycle of the individual organism to suggest that each group eventually underwent degenerative evolution into a senile phase as the prelude to extinction .
11 Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) .
12 There is limited evidence to suggest that working class women were also convinced of the danger their contributions to the family economy posed to their husbands ' work incentives .
13 There is , furthermore , at least some limited evidence to suggest that most commercials do not need to be as long as they are in order to communicate at least the more fundamental elements of their message .
14 A contemporary poem suggests that three men , Wallis , Bridges and Thomas Paty , were all involved .
15 The schematic account suggested that legal positivism first presented itself as a matter of fact whereby theorists sought to reduce law to one or other favoured fact .
16 Research carried out by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine suggests that various species of malarial mosquito thrive in the wake of forests being opened up .
17 There are very little data available on the incomes and circumstances of absent parents but the data collected by the government as background to the White Paper suggest that such men tend to have lower than average earnings ( DSS , 1990a , Vol. 2 , para. 3.6 ) .
18 Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks .
19 An increasing number of claims for night visits was recorded during the 1970s , and anecdotal evidence suggests that this trend continued both before and after the new contract , although no figures have been published .
20 Anecdotal evidence suggests that British companies , which in theory stand a good chance of winning public contracts , are finding in practice that they are being discouraged .
21 While there are problems if cattle and sheep are allowed to overgraze pasture , there would appear to be ample evidence to suggest that grazing cattle and sheep on natural grassland can be beneficial to maintaining an ecological balance .
22 Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view .
23 In conclusion , the results of our present study suggest that polymeric diets are a safe and effective treatment for active Crohn 's disease .
24 The aetiology remains unknown , but much circumstantial evidence suggests that immunological mechanisms are involved in the pathogenesis .
25 Circumstantial evidence suggests that many trees have died in areas of Germany where acid rain is most prevalent .
26 Circumstantial evidence suggests that this animal is a significant problem for water voles .
27 There is now fairly good observational evidence to suggest that black holes of about this size exist in double-star systems such as the X-ray source known as Cygnus X-I .
28 Therefore , the empirical evidence suggesting that reliable signals of each actor 's state are not seen in the course of animal conflicts may have been misinterpreted .
29 A good deal of empirical evidence suggested that these perspectives might not be wholly unrealistic .
30 Even so , his grand accommodation suggests that great things are in store for him .
  Next page