Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] suggest " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kane and Arthur Russell skid the peripheries , imply a distance from the centred subject of pop that is hauntingly suggested by their Plutonic , echoing surfaces of sounds . |
| 2 | The catfish that is sometimes suggested is carnivorous and pugnacious and generally creates havoc . |
| 3 | Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |
| 5 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 6 | But , as one eminent Scottish judge pointed out in MacCormick v Lord Advocate ( above ) , why should it be assumed that successive reconstituted Parliaments at Westminster have inherited the attribute of ‘ sovereignty ’ peculiar ( and , as is above suggested , perhaps with a limited meaning even then ) to the English Parliament . |
| 7 | The MacMahon Act did not , as is often suggested , trigger Attlee 's decision in January 1947 to go ahead with the development of the British atomic bomb . |
| 8 | Nor is it possible for the sufferer to ‘ snap out of it ’ as is often suggested with varying degrees of tactfulness . |
| 9 | This has nothing to do with the chemicals all being derived from oil and coal ( see p 166 ) as is often suggested . |
| 10 | Yet for many years gerontologists , in the many disciplines that make up gerontology , have been arguing that the gloom is overstressed , that future prospects need not be so bad as is often suggested . |
| 11 | If it 's true , as is often suggested , that there are no new stories , then one of the things that makes a piece of drama original is the angle — or the frame . |
| 12 | First there is another objection to be considered : do deviant identities and sexualities really denaturalize through theatrical parody as straightforwardly as is sometimes suggested ? |
| 13 | It is important to be clear that the people of Denmark did not vote for a modification of the Treaty , as is sometimes suggested . |
| 14 | What needs to be done is not as hard to conceive of as is sometimes suggested . |
| 15 | He did not see Crosland hinting at wanting to ‘ nationalize ’ or exert control over the universities , and he did not see the DES as being ‘ jealous of the universities as is sometimes suggested ’ . |
| 16 | There is also a certain problem in taking women 's freedom to dispose of their own sexuality as an indicator of their influence and power in general , as is tacitly suggested by both Morgan and Engels . |