Example sentences of "to suggest that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was about to suggest that we eat tea together , and , that being so , you would not mind a fresh pot . |
| 2 | For instance : ‘ I think we should be getting some of our employees to work from home ’ or ‘ I 'd like to suggest that we go home early . ’ |
| 3 | ( b ) I 'd like to suggest that we go home early . ’ |
| 4 | I had to interrupt her flow of catastrophes to suggest that we try to understand what was going on beneath the surface . |
| 5 | We 've got attendance I was going to suggest that we made that attendance stroke punctuality |
| 6 | I am simply trying to suggest that we do our best to ensure they report it accurately . |
| 7 | But I was going to suggest that we order a copy of the book . |
| 8 | Anyway , I just thought I 'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point ; I do enjoy trying to get to know some of my cousins , especially when they 're not hundreds of miles away . |
| 9 | If so it would seem to suggest that we have an absolute rule of conduct or an agreed blue-print of morality to which there can be no exceptions . |
| 10 | If we are talking about hypocrisy , let me say that it would be hypocrisy to suggest that we have the powers unilaterally to introduce a labelling directive to discriminate against foreign veal . |
| 11 | ‘ It might still be a bit premature to suggest that we have made it if we beat Lithuania , but it would then become very close especially as we play them again in Dublin in September . ’ |
| 12 | There is no evidence to suggest that they made substantial wartime gains in terms of occupational pension entitlements . |
| 13 | The adoptive parents had made no comments to suggest that they realized the children were unhappy . |
| 14 | The same management and work force face the challenges of the current position , but there is nothing to suggest that they lack the collective will , expertise or enterprise to negotiate a very successful future for themselves and their industry . |
| 15 | He finds that although the globular bodies of the histone molecules no longer contact the DNA of heavily transcribed genes , their charged tails still do , leading him to suggest that they remain tethered by their tails while the polymerase passes so that they can rapidly ‘ snap back ’ into their former structure . |
| 16 | There is evidence to suggest that they had indeed been introduced before this to some offices — possibly as early as before Christmas 1872 — but it is clear from the strike committee minutes that they were not regarded by the union as a threat of any significance compared with that of outside labour . |
| 17 | The Saudi Arabians , who had been expected to support Venezuela , adopted a low key approach , leading most commentators to suggest that they had been intimidated by Iraq 's belligerence . |
| 18 | ( b ) You will note that I have put some elements in parentheses , for example because , to suggest that they do not quite fit into the analysis . |
| 19 | The Poles did not look much of a side at all when they lost 3-0 at Wembley in June and , although they have improved since under new management , there is nothing in their results to suggest that they have recovered the standard of the team that put Sir Alf Ramsey 's England out of the World Cup in 1973 . |
| 20 | If capitalist industrialisation has done little to improve the position of women , is there any evidence to suggest that they have fared better with alternative paths of development ? |
| 21 | Tracks like ‘ Is Wrestling Fixed ? ’ and the poignant ‘ England ’ were ( are ! ) convincing enough progressions away from their old ramalama Pet Shop Boys punk to suggest that they have n't run out ideas yet . |
| 22 | I want to suggest that they have not and that there are equally plausible ( though less politically attractive ) explanations for the associations they claim to identify . |
| 23 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 24 | Arguments are put forward to show their importance to an understanding of the relationship of women to the home , and to suggest that they have had a significant influence on British architecture . |
| 25 | It would be wrong to give the impression that Liz , Alix and Esther fell into one another 's arms with cries of delight when they met again that October , or to suggest that they proved thereafter inseparable . |
| 26 | In his judgment , Lord Justice Dillon rejected Mothercare 's claim for passing off because in particular the book taken as a whole , not merely its title , did not begin to suggest that it had been issued by or sponsored by or was in any way associated with Mothercare . |
| 27 | One response to this choice might be to suggest that it depends on the type of dispute in question . |
| 28 | Unlike the other mills powered by the Painswick Stream , there is no evidence to suggest that it has ever been anything but a corn mill , virtually all the others having been in the woollen cloth trade at some time . |
| 29 | Although this rule could be represented and applied within a symbolic system , it is reasonable to suggest that it has been ‘ learnt ’ by the evolutionary process and is embodied in the flies ' neurophysiology . |
| 30 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |