Example sentences of "[art] suggestion [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 2 | With the show as buoyant as it is in these times , you will perhaps see why I have questioned his assertion that it is a local show and why I can absolutely refute the suggestion that we needed to discount . |
| 3 | Bill volunteers the suggestion that we should meet to review his performance against the criteria quite soon . |
| 4 | Just as Marx criticised the suggestion that we could found a theory on universal human needs , he now rejects the idea that we can introduce an independently defined notion of economic practice and use it to explain other aspects of society . |
| 5 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 6 | The suggestion that we should publish the amount paid for each company raises difficult problems of commercial confidentiality . |
| 7 | Bob , er I take it that you know the suggestion that we perhaps name the er thing , this particular thing , you know the centenary fields or something like that , you know is a very good suggestion , but I think perhaps the council ought to do something . |
| 8 | Perhaps we will refer later to the blatant dishonesty — I am sorry , I must watch my language ; let us say something bordering on the dishonest — of the suggestion that we can have a banding system which avoids for ever the problem of revaluation . |
| 9 | I rang Beryl with condolences and the suggestion that we should meet later in the week . |
| 10 | Yet it should be remembered that the school-leaving age was not actually raised until after the Second World War and that the suggestion that they should receive secondary education was tainted by the official assumption that the children of the working class were innately less intelligent than their middle-class brethren . |
| 11 | Finally , there is the criticism of ‘ those associated with him ’ , presumably the Protestant clergymen who shared his objections to the meeting , and there is the suggestion that they and the Ballymoney Council have been manipulated by Rome . |
| 12 | He rejects the suggestion that they are no longer united by a common experience . |
| 13 | The Smiths are acknowledged as writing with sensitivity , depth and intelligence and the suggestion that they are cashing in on a tragedy at the expense of causing grief to the relatives of its victims is absolutely untrue . |
| 14 | ‘ The suggestion that they have been anything other than sympathetic and supportive is untrue and particularly hurtful . ’ |
| 15 | There is nothing new in the idea of population cycles , or in the suggestion that they may influence the business cycle ( Losch 1937 ) . |
| 16 | Investors who had watched the company 's share price climb often wanted to increase their own stakes , or were amenable to the suggestion that they should . |
| 17 | Many would take grave exception to the suggestion that they are problem drinkers , yet the volume of alcohol they consume at home can be far above recommended safe levels . |
| 18 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 19 | She also rejected the suggestion that they simply needed to make a telephone call home to solve differences with their parents . |
| 20 | ‘ The suggestion that they have been anything other than sympathetic and supportive is untrue and particularly hurtful . ’ |
| 21 | Moreover , Mr Kinnock brushed aside the suggestion that he needed a big idea or unique selling point to challenge the appeal of Thatcherism . |
| 22 | Corpus Christi College made the suggestion that he should sleep in Corpus but take his meals in his old college of Magdalene ; a proposal so bizarre that it should be accounted for by a motive , not to have at dinner a famously silent person , imagined as a wet blanket . |
| 23 | In one interview a chief minister of Karnataka , Gundu Rao , heatedly denied the suggestion that he had any political base in his state at all . |
| 24 | If it is stretching the imagination to describe any West Indian fast bowler as a gentle giant he is nevertheless mild-mannered and easy-going , and it is significant that while the likes of Croft and Marshall were doing unpleasant things to batsmen 's heads , the damage that Garner inflicted was mostly confined to arms and hands ; obviously any broken bone is bad and obviously he sent down his share of bouncers , but there was never the suggestion that he was using his physical advantages maliciously ; six feet eight inches 12 metres ) tall and weighing seventeen stones ( 108 kilograms ) , the prospect of the carnage he might have caused had he been of an aggressive nature hardly bears thinking about . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 26 | When the Daily Mail published the commission 's findings , Norris took legal action against the paper , then dropped it in favour of a libel suit against the FA , to challenge the suggestion that he had acted dishonestly . |
| 27 | There is also the suggestion that he does n't satisfy her sexually . |
| 28 | But they could n't stomach the never-ending barrage of damaging revelations — particularly the suggestion that he had broken ministerial rules by accepting lavish holidays . |
| 29 | When the organisers at Palazzo Grassi , the FIAT Foundation 's Venetian exhibition space , approached the scholar Massimo Pallottino with the suggestion that he organise an exhibition on the Etruscans he expressed surprise : there have been numerous Etruscan shows in Europe since the large touring exhibition of 1955–56 , the most recent being the ‘ Progetto Etrusco ’ in 1985 which involved the whole of Italy . |
| 30 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |