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

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1 undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion
2 The source of arousal is critical for a number of reasons , in addition to the considerable literature suggesting that arousal is not a unitary physiological dimension , there is the problem that in memory tasks an external source arousal may simply distract subjects while memory for an arousing item itself may be subject to von Restorff effects .
3 One theory is based upon aposematic , or warning coloration suggesting that the bright coloration of the clownfish acts as a warning to predators against approaching too closely to the venomous tentacles .
4 In it we incredulously quoted a Guardian story suggesting that Bishop Auckland born Meale defending a tiny Labour majority in Mansfield bore a resemblance to Clark Gable .
5 The danger of criticizing the appointment of particular judges was shown when in June 1980 a Belfast jury awarded £50,000 damages to a Northern Ireland county court judge for a libel contained in an article in the Economist suggesting that his appointment had been based , as The Times put it in a leading article , not so much on his ability but on the fact that he was a Roman Catholic .
6 E VEN at this late hour , psephology , demographics and luck suggest that the Tories could still emerge as the biggest single party in a hung Parliament .
7 Recent developments in particle physics suggest that every nucleon may itself have a nucleus .
8 Our journeys on the whiteboard suggest that it holds the key to our concepts of beauty .
9 The columns of The Lancet suggest that the operation was performed , though it aroused fierce opposition , and was soon abandoned .
10 First impressions in the field suggest that large areas of ice-free Antarctica are sterile .
11 The rapid advances in this field suggest that computational analogues of human reasoning abilities will become increasingly difficult to distinguish from the real thing , and if a mechanistic view of biological systems is taken , this in itself may provide sufficient proof of the ability of non-biological systems to develop the ability to process ideas and communicate concepts .
12 Studies on the Monach Isles National Nature Reserve suggest that salt-laden winds affect taller plants most , so that exposed coastal plant communities tend to consist mainly of low-growth plant forms — not just because of the stunting effect of the wind — but also because of the salt it carries ( Randall 1973 ) .
13 Logic and experience suggest that , on the contrary , leases in the hands of the inexperienced and short-sighted will lead to bankruptcies and wholesale closure of pubs .
14 However , figures from market researchers Verdict suggest that in 1988 , Comet had 7.6 per cent of the market , Lasky 's — since bought by Kingfisher — 1.2 per cent and Dixons almost 18 per cent .
15 Its rather strange style finds its nearest parallels in the third quarter of the century , and primitive elements in the technique suggest that it is an early piece of its kind .
16 Less controversially , it soon becomes apparent to personnel involved in course and presenter evaluation that student respondents rarely assign very poor ratings , or make extremely negative comments , even when other indicators such as colleague judgement suggest that a course has been presented particularly poorly .
17 Both these forms of support suggest that video is a good medium for extended listening to the foreign language .
18 Clinical trials using calcipotriol suggest that it is a safe and effective topical treatment for psoriasis vulgaris .
19 At the same time , my own researches into the origins of agriculture suggest that the women who were responsible for the discovery and early development of cultivation were motivated by drives of a masculine , aggressive kind and were unlikely to tolerate lengthy breast-feeding and the demands of selfless child-care but also , like their modern equivalents , tended to develop strong narcissistic identifications with their male children ( the masculine woman 's substitute penis ) .
20 But video films of fires carried out on the test rig suggest that alarms will sound too late .
21 Theories that attempt to unite Nature 's forces within one framework suggest that monopoles should have been produced in the early stages of the Universe : and just over a year ago Blas Cabrera , a researcher at Stanford University , thought he might have found one ( New Scientist .
22 David Graddol and Joan Swann for instance suggest that high pitched voices will lack authority as long as there are squealing children and low , growly dogs .
23 The isolation of a cDNA clone from testis of S. macroura and the long open reading frame in the M. eugenii genome suggest that these marsupial genes are not pseudogenes .
24 There is nothing in these two pieces that Eckard could not have written , but the sketchiness and even abruptness of their construction , the unenterprising harmony , and the lack of textural variety suggest that , if he did compose them , he dashed them off as fast as he could write for a pupil of little talent and not much discrimination .
25 Estimates for the level of under-reporting suggest that the actual level of injury was three times this number .
26 An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent .
27 Accounts of their trial suggest that it took the form of a political witch-hunt , with the intention of intimidating other critics of the government .
28 Experiments conducted by a British scientist suggest that the increase in ultraviolet radiation caused by ozone depletion will have immediate and serious effects on the yields of some key food crops as well as on other plants .
29 In contrast , antibodies against C/EBPδ ( 27 ) completely abolish the IL-6 induced complex suggesting that it contains C/EBP δ/NF-IL6; β .
30 The Sunday programme 's poll follows another survey by BBC Radio 4 's Today programme suggesting that the opinion in the House of Laity is within a hair's-breadth of the necessary two-thirds majority .
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