Example sentences of "was suggested [that] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flat , known in 1978 as a Red Brigades hideout , had been extensively searched at the time by all the security services , and it was suggested that the letters might have been planted there more recently to embarrass the government , particularly Andreotti ( now Prime Minister again ) and Cossiga ( Interior Minister in 1978 ) , who had held out against negotiating with the Red Brigades . |
| 2 | The study was carried out on trees of greater than 30 cm girth at breast height and it was suggested that the differences between the sites were due to the soils , the podzols of Sepilok being less fertile than those at Kuala Lompat . |
| 3 | Right , at the last Committee , it was suggested that the figures be presented to Committee on a town by town basis , I E not the wider travel to work areas , the reason being that the travel to work areas are , are quite large and sometimes mask differences in rates of unemployment between different settlements . |
| 4 | It was suggested that the authorities tried to manipulate aggregate demand — primarily through fiscal policy — in order to achieve their desired combination of economic objectives but , because of the lags mentioned earlier , such policies exerted their full effect much later when economic conditions had changed as a result of the fluctuations in the business cycle . |
| 5 | When Jeremy Bentham , the radical jurist , philosopher and founder of University College , London , died in 1832 at the age of eighty-four he bequeathed his body to Dr Southwood Smith , an anatomist and author of Uses of the Dead to the Living , in which it was suggested that the difficulties experienced by medical schools in acquiring bodies for dissection could be alleviated if people chose to bequeath their bodies to them . |
| 6 | It was suggested that the isoforms were the likely result of alternative splicing although this awaits confirmation . |
| 7 | In these circumstances , it was suggested that the auditors should have been aware that Fidelity was vulnerable to a takeover bid and that any possible bidder such as Caparo would be likely to rely on the accounts when deciding whether a bid should be made and that loss would be suffered by such a bidder if the accounts were inaccurate . |
| 8 | It was suggested that the children , by now thoroughly scared by their experiences , might quite simply make their way back to Ridgery Butts and if that were so would be found moving openly along the rides . |