Example sentences of "[noun] when [pron] suggest [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 2 | In analysing the new acting Ferguson was nearer the mark when he suggested that the movies were now coming up with richer and more vital people but Daugherty 's comments serve to remind us that techniques and styles which should have been feeding into a new cinema of experimentation and realism were being used rather to bolster old conventions of melodrama . |
| 3 | In the circumstances , Dunwoody , who escaped with nothing worse than bruises , was performing a miracle of tolerant good sense when he suggested that the Mildmay fences ‘ should perhaps be a bit more sloped and not quite so square at the top . ’ |
| 4 | To his credit , Cheniere did attempt a conciliatory gesture when he suggested that the three adolescents could wear their scarves at school outside class hours . |
| 5 | Dawkins 's approach to evolution was presented in characteristically entertaining form when he suggested that the organism is ‘ … a robot vehicle blindly programmed to preserve its selfish genes ’ . |