Example sentences of "[noun sg] suggest that it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a close reading of the entry ‘ Maître de musique ’ in Meude-Monpas 's dictionary suggests that it was written with the art of Pierre-Montan Berton ( 1727-80 ) in mind : the article concludes with a eulogy to him as ‘ a sovereign master of the orchestra ’ , i.e. at the Paris Opera from 1755 . |
| 2 | The After Redundancy study suggests that it was those on the demand side and , in the first instance , the redundancy itself . |
| 3 | Although this plant occurs there today , its absence in the pollen record suggests that it was never common in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 4 | The KGB was now much more firmly under party control and there was evidence to suggest that it was required , outwardly at least , to abide by the legal rules . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman suggests that it was a bogus sham . |
| 6 | We do n't know exactly how long ago the common ancestor of cows and peas lived , but fossil evidence suggests that it was somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 million years ago . |
| 7 | Time can be a very real problem but answers to the questionnaire suggested that it was not an absolute impediment . |
| 8 | The direct and indirect statutory controls over the rules of the SIB and SROs and , in particular , the role of the Secretary of State suggest that it was contemplated that rules which survived their scrutiny would adequately protect investors . |
| 9 | A Sierra Club spokesman suggested that it was a sign that " the Administration is finally getting serious " about global warming . |
| 10 | Although the government suggested that it was prepared to offer some degree of autonomy to the island , the prospect of losing the tax revenue from the mine , together with the potential effect upon other provinces within the country 's ethnically diverse structure , suggested that the government would be unprepared to accept BRA 's stated aim of full independence . |
| 11 | Its small size suggests that it was a so-called ‘ satellite ’ pyramid which probably played a part in the ritual entombment of the pharaoh , although the lack of remains found in satellite pyramids have made it difficult to determine their function . |
| 12 | It will have damaging consequences which willl flow from it not being targeted tightly on violent offences , as the Home Secretary suggested that it was . |
| 13 | Protocol in turn suggested that it was an invitation they could n't refuse . |
| 14 | This brief review of the origins of the care programme approach suggests that it was generated by a move to establish systems which would help to prevent individual patients from ‘ falling through the net ’ of services , with the risk of manifest neglect , homelessness , inappropriate use of health and criminal justice services or even more tragic outcomes . |
| 15 | Wilfrid 's failure to secure a sympathetic hearing suggests that it was not only Oswiu 's family which found him unpalatable . |
| 16 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 17 | Its height suggests that it was unlikely to have been intended as a garden sculpture . |
| 18 | The report suggested that it was not the ultimate loser 's fault that the judge at first instance and the Court of Appeal did not get the right answers , and that the loser should not be liable for the appellate costs . |
| 19 | A political commentator of our own day , Paul Johnson , quoted it not long after Major became Prime Minister to suggest that it was also true of him . |
| 20 | Although the New Statesman suggested that it was possible abuses of the law that required assessment , much of the pressure for change , as has been suggested , came from those who viewed with concern what appeared to be the increasing visibility of homosexuality . |
| 21 | An early estimate suggested that it was more than seven times as high , when social disadvantage was defined by the presence of all three of the following indices : overcrowding ( more than 1.5 persons per room ) , low income ( supplementary benefit or free school meals ) and adverse family circumstances ( coming from a single-parent home or a home with more than five children ) ( Wedge and Prosser , 1973 ) . |
| 22 | The Hayward 's lower galleries are mainly devoted to personal contributions , to semi-abstract painting ( and the absence of sculpture in this section suggests that it was easier to join international art by painting rather than sculpting ) . |
| 23 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |