Example sentences of "was [adv] suggest that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He said he was not suggesting that Mrs Swami had tried deliberately to mislead the jury about the number of beatings .
2 Pauline Mitchell , director of housing , said the council was not suggesting that Tracy had been negligent .
3 Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law .
4 It was also suggested that theologians may need to look at the theology of play in order to gain a more positive understanding of the entertainment role of the media .
5 It was also suggested that solicitors should display their practising certificates and last accountant 's report in their offices .
6 Today Mr Justice Garland stressed that he was n't suggesting that media coverage of the case should have been restricted .
7 It was then suggested that MCC had similarities to ‘ a Catherine wheel turning at ever increasing speeds … whose final whirl could end with a bang ( i.e. Robert Maxwell proclaiming the triumph of a clean balance sheet ) or a splutter ’ .
8 But it was never suggested that Wordsworth should simply versify Coleridge 's ideas .
9 Lord Donaldson asked if he was seriously suggesting that juries would multiply the award by 10 times .
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