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

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1 Indeed , it may be suggested that the substantive issue of subsidiarity will be essentially non-justiciable , as the present author has suggested to the House of Lords .
2 It was further suggested that the principal value of the new statement might be for reference purposes rather than for wide circulation .
3 It has been suggested that the young man was Mark himself .
4 It is commonly accepted that educated deaf people prefer hearing people to use English-based sign and Woodward ( 1973 ) has suggested that the normal form of communication between deaf and hearing people is pidgin Sign English .
5 Generally those xenobiotic enzymes that are expressed in normal colon are present in small quantities ( our finding of patchy focal staining of surface epithelium would support this ) and it has been suggested that the low level of expression of biotransformation enzymes in normal colon could result in a critically low detoxification value , and hence increase the chances of carcinogenesis taking place in this tissue .
6 These results therefore suggested that the visceral-specific exon was not associated with the SM1 type MHC .
7 Jean-Robert Sabalat , president of the nine-member CEP , later suggested that the revised date could be Dec. 9 , but emphasized that this was not , as yet , official .
8 It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans .
9 Some aid agencies and other concerned groups meanwhile suggested that the only solution to the problem of the looting by armed groups of food supplies arriving in Somalia was for the country to be " flooded " with food aid .
10 It has also been suggested that the comparative approach may help to develop explanatory theory of greater power and generality ( e.g. Bean 1985 : 7 ; Shalev 1980 ) .
11 The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast .
12 Should the same scenario arise under the new law , it is suggested that the following analysis applies .
13 John Gummer , the UK Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , has suggested that the European Community ( EC ) should have the power to suspend subsidy payments to farmers who pollute the environment .
14 If the plan is small scale or consists of an extract of the Ordnance Survey map it is suggested that the verbal description should prevail .
15 It has been suggested that the cyclic AMP and InsP 3 messenger pathways may interact with each other to enhance odorant discrimination .
16 Drawing a parallel with domestic appliances , such as refrigerators and freezers , which may be used in laboratories , it has been suggested that the average electricity consumption of newly purchased appliances in the UK is considerably higher than the best available in Europe .
17 In Bradford , it was even suggested that the General Strike might be seen as a victory :
18 For instance , a study of the dies used for the bronze coinage of Antoninus Pius ( AD 138–61 ) circulating in Britain has suggested that the total stock of bronze coinage in circulation was of the general magnitude of about ten million sestertii ; as the population of the province was about five million at the time , we can conclude from the low figure of two sestertii per capita that most of the population can not have used coinage on anything like the scale required in a fully monetised society ( see also p. 51 ) .
19 Of course , they may have got him wrong , since some of them also suggested that the great man had once possessed a robust sense of humour .
20 Linda Welsh has previously suggested that the key issue is competence , at a time when the knowledge gained in initial vocational education may have a life span as short as four years .
21 The velar nasal , described in Chapter 7 , also raises a lot of analysis problems ; some writers have suggested that the correct analysis is one in which there is no phoneme , and this sound is treated as an allophone of the phoneme that occurs when it precedes the phoneme .
22 Some commentators and businessmen have suggested that the successful privatization of the National Freight Corporation was a foregone conclusion .
23 It has also been suggested that the possible imposition of obligations upon signature may deter States from taking that step .
24 As most pancreatitis episodes in men are caused by alcohol abuse , and as the increase in the incidence of pancreatitis discharges took place particularly in men between 25–64 years of age , and this group consumes most of the alcohol in the country , it is suggested that the increased alcohol consumption and the increased incidence of pancreatitis discharges may have a causal relation .
25 During the mid 1970s , it was suggested that the increased use of nitrogen-based agricultural fertilizers and/or nitrogen-fixing vegetation might affect the nitrogen cycle and result in an increase in the amounts of oxides of nitrogen released from the surface into the atmosphere .
26 Bile or components of bile have been identified as potential carcinogens in other organs such as the colon or pancreas and it has been suggested that the increased risk of developing gastric cancer after gastric surgery is a function of duodenogastric reflux .
27 Just as modern theories of the firm have suggested that the managerial utility function may include the size and rate of growth of output , so too it has been argued ( notably by Niskanen ) that bureaucrats seek to maximize the size of their agency :
28 It has been suggested that the appropriate test is ‘ whether the parties are making some serious promises or undertakings ’ which are intended by them to be acted and relied upon .
29 It has been suggested that the self-advocacy movement offers a model of growth and development against which professional assumptions and approaches can be tested .
30 My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man .
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