Example sentences of "[art] [noun] suggests that " in BNC.

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1 In ( 2 ) , for instance , the idea of unmanly seems to correspond to what caused the person represented as the support of the infinitive to perform the action of treating a woman badly , and the sentence suggests that the speaker did not expect such unmanly behaviour from the person he is addressing .
2 The hypothesis suggests that if natural order is valid , then in order to move from one stage to the next highest stage the acquirer must understand input from this next highest stage , where understanding is concerned with meaning and the form of the message .
3 In 1428 , however , it and some neighbouring villages were excused from paying the subsidy because it had less than ten households , and the excavation of one of the houses suggests that it had been deserted as early as the second half of the fourteenth century .
4 According to McGuire et al ( 1987 ) the literature suggests that 80% of elderly people admitted to geriatric hospitals are on medication and 10% are admitted with iatrogenic drug-related problems .
5 While both sexes gossip , the literature suggests that they gossip differently .
6 All the experience suggests that their minds are absent on social issues , as Susie confessed hers were during at least part of each day .
7 The degree of cost-cutting UK companies have undergone during the recession suggests that a European recovery will ultimately deliver substantial operational gearing benefits for exporters .
8 The finding suggests that vaccination against the virus might prevent at least some cases of Hodgkin 's disease , which attacks 1500 Britons yearly ( The Lancet , vol 337 , p 320 ) .
9 Whether the Ephesian disciples were Christians or not before Paul 's arrival — and the development of the story suggests that he finds they were not — Paul 's initial question still assumes that it is possible to be a believer in Jesus without receiving fully the Holy Spirit .
10 The term suggests that the memory and reasoning processes of the people are predominantly visual ( though picture is also used of other senses ) ; one of the things they have to learn is to make abstractions from such data .
11 Nevertheless , the Guidance suggests that local authorities review service provision plans for children in need in the same way as they are required by regulation to review their plans for children they are looking after ( see Chapter 16 , 8 ) .
12 Mrs Whitehouse was accused at many points of being motivated by ‘ hatred ’ of homosexuals and , whilst the extract suggests that her attitude was not one of ‘ hatred ’ — indeed far from it — by including in her attitude to homosexuality such words as : undesirable , repugnant , perverse , suffering and abnormal , it is also easy to see how the gay community might be less than happy with the description .
13 Quotas can be introduced , which might or might not be tradeable between farmers ( David Baldock of the IEEP suggests that within the National Farmers ' Union a debate over quotas ended with victory for those in favour of no such regulation ) .
14 The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented .
15 The drawing suggests that the " yes " decision might require some effort .
16 The gap between the two channels in the drawing suggests that the decision is difficult .
17 The drawing suggests that an apparently normal decision eventually returns the decider to his starting point .
18 The drawing suggests that instead of a constant aim that is on target at every moment .
19 The drawing suggests that the broken arrow rises to follow the management arrow .
20 The drawing suggests that the switch to the new route is taken in stages .
21 The drawing suggests that no specific objective has been set .
22 The drawing suggests that the short-term objective is a step on the way to the long-term objective .
23 The drawing suggests that a good fit has been achieved .
24 The drawing suggests that the reception area has been pre-empted by a completely inadequate shape .
25 The drawing suggests that there might come a time when the system does not recover at the bottom of its dive but continues heading downwards to collapse .
26 The drawing suggests that a number of balls are available for this and they are just pushed into the hole one alter the other until it is filled and a surface can be laid on top of it .
27 Bad though it is , the figure suggests that Guatemala is not yet back to the horrors of the early 1980s when death squads , organised by military presidents , murdered at will .
28 The data suggests that the direct effect of the crash was to wipe some 10% off the sterling value of wealth in the last quarter ( this does not include indirect effects on assets other than equities ) .
29 Furthermore the data suggests that an additional level of complexity characterises regulation of MHC expression in that a positive pressure is required for selection of the visceral splicing pathway ( Fig. 4 ) .
30 The research suggests that hotels would do better to install smoke and heat detectors in all rooms — an expensive procedure .
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