Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] suggest [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ .
2 I do not believe that it is helpful to suggest that the problem is widespread or in any way worrying , either for the consumer or for the farming industry as a whole .
3 In many respects these are deficient and could be extended and improved , but it is misleading to suggest that no incentives to good performance exist except market forces .
4 Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will .
5 It is ridiculous to suggest that a magazine article , book or even the most expert of instructors can teach you exactly how to perform the complex set of movements involved in , say , gybing .
6 It is possible to suggest that the two poets resemble one another .
7 As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of
8 And it is fanciful to suggest that an order on Mr. Tully to say whether he has received Abbey 's money and if so what has happened to that money could result in his ill-treatment or in a dubious confession .
9 It is tempting to suggest that the same kind of jigsaw process will explain the shape of an elephant , but almost certainly it is not true .
10 The dinosaurs took over instead ; and it is tempting to suggest that the mammals failed to seize their chance precisely because the dinosaurs beat them to it : in the first encounter , if such it was , the dinosaurs won .
11 It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have .
12 Since all the preferred cleavage sites contain a guanine base it is tempting to suggest that the specificity arises from the formation of hydrogen bonds to this base , possibly involving the 2-amino group [ 13 ] .
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