Example sentences of "[pers pn] suggested [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week in the House , I suggested that such people should be given a sound thrashing . |
| 2 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 3 | One of Jaci Stephen 's gems ( Spring Edition ) you omitted was the occasion she suggested that one man 's motive for daring to criticise her was a size limitation in the manhood department . |
| 4 | " The battle for the environment will be fought on the industrial front " , she declared , and she suggested that environmental protection should be regarded as a " high-tech industry " . |
| 5 | In Chapter 3 , we saw that children 's comprehension of difficult sentences is similarly influenced by their knowledge of what kinds of events are likely , and we suggested that this kind of non-linguistic knowledge plays an important role in language acquisition . |
| 6 | However , we suggested that this point can be met substantially by the traditional argument about economic policy making , that it is best to assign separate instruments to different targets . |
| 7 | They suggested that any objections should be sent to our County Councillor immediately as there is a meeting arranged for next Tuesday to decide whether or not to close the court . |
| 8 | They suggested that constitutional change was something that most Scottish electors might , when invited , approve of . |
| 9 | They suggested that dietary phosphate inhibits this protective effect of calcium , because phosphate will also bind luminal calcium ions and thus reduce the amount of calcium available for fatty acid and bile acid precipitation . |
| 10 | Thirdly , Gardner et al , in their case-control study of leukaemia and lymphoma diagnosed during 1950–85 among young people in West Cumbria , concluded that the excess occurred among children whose fathers had high levels of exposure to radiation before the child was conceived , and perhaps particularly in the preceding six months ; they suggested that some cases were the result of paternal germ cell mutations , and that this could explain the excess in this geographical area . |
| 11 | He suggested that one reason his parents had talked so much about it was that ‘ they really were like oil and water , and the only thing they really agreed about was the ballet . |
| 12 | He suggested that each family type is linked to particular ideology . |
| 13 | He suggested that new species arise , not in the main centre of its ancestors , but in peripheral , somewhat isolated populations . |
| 14 | He suggested that Labour governments came to power only when there had been a radical change in the climate of opinion . |
| 15 | He suggested that extinct crocodiles found in the fossil record could have been transformed into their modern relatives when a modification of the environment triggered off the transition to a new growth pattern . |
| 16 | His confrontational attitude caused controversy , notably when he suggested that some ambulance personnel were little more than professional drivers . |
| 17 | He suggested that these proposals were contrary to the public interest and to justice . |
| 18 | He suggested that these fields are moulded by the form and behaviour of past organisms of the same species through direct connections across both space and time , a process he calls ‘ morphic resonance ’ . |
| 19 | He suggested that tidal forces resulted in the lighter continental crust ‘ ploughing ’ through the substratum of denser crust underlaying the oceans . |
| 20 | He suggested that ethical committees could be set up across the country to provide an independent source of advice for doctors and families , taking the matter out of the hands of the courts . |
| 21 | Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing . |
| 22 | It suggested that primary education could be reorganised into first and middle schools . |
| 23 | It suggested that all countries had strong mutual interests in providing growing markets for each others ' products , in security of supplies and in a more stable monetary system . |
| 24 | The work reported on in section 3.3 suggested that there may be economic efficiency ( as well as taxation efficiency ) reasons for the introduction of share options , and in general it suggested that managerial emolument packages should not be in the form of a straight salary but should involve some performance-improving subtleties . |
| 25 | It suggested that some polytechnics and colleges should be given complete autonomy by the Secretary of State to validate their own courses ; others should be allowed more limited autonomy , in specific areas ; while in yet others external validation should remain . |
| 26 | In addition , it suggested that more courses should be developed that related directly to the world of work , and had titles informative to employers . |
| 27 | It suggested that more attention should be given to multicultural matters in both initial training and in-service training of teachers , and the effectiveness of racism awareness training should be investigated . |