Example sentences of "suggest that it was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1377 poll-tax returns suggest that it was over three times the size of the largest provincial centres , Bristol and York , almost five times that of Coventry and six times that of Norwich ( 104 , p.1 ) . |
| 2 | It 's possible that some other minor eruptions occurred between 1681 and 1883 , but if they did , there is no record of them , and all of the reports and descriptions made by ships passing Krakatoa suggest that it was quite dormant . |
| 3 | Or schools get very excited by computer-assisted learning , ordering equipment and retraining teachers — only to find that the pupils , so full of enthusiasm three years ago , have totally lost interest , while the ‘ experts ’ are once again suggesting that it was n't such a good idea after all . |
| 4 | The the reconciliations suggesting that it was n't a good stock take . |
| 5 | I also remember that on that occasion some cautious , niggly comments circulated , suggesting that it was somehow out of order to rejoice in this magnificent sound . |
| 6 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 7 | Yet the Declaration of Rights made no provision for regular Parliaments ; it merely stated that " Parliaments ought to be held frequently " , and even then it was the last demand made in the document , suggesting that it was not a particularly high priority . |
| 8 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 9 | I think Steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the G three T one . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems feasible therefore that subinfeudated and honorial vills may have differed in village planning policies … suggesting that it was under honorial administration that they [ regular village plans ] were most likely to be established . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules . |
| 13 | Contrary to the obvious evidence you find , there is also enough clues to suggest that it was n't Jack the Ripper at all . |
| 14 | Mr Major attacked Labour again in Commons questions for ‘ talking Britain down ’ , prompting Mr Smith later to suggest that it was not a question of who is talking the country down , but pulling it down . |
| 15 | Ouija is made up of the French and German words for ‘ yes ’ , and this would suggest that it was originally an ‘ answering machine ’ for the spirits of the board . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Peter Gillman suggests that it was not until TV South West made a film ‘ A Trust Betrayed ’ , and consulted Dr Neil Ward of Surrey University , that a plausible explanation for the conflicting evidence of poisoning and the official view that it could not happen came to light . |
| 18 | Wilfrid 's failure to secure a sympathetic hearing suggests that it was not only Oswiu 's family which found him unpalatable . |
| 19 | While as early as Elizabethan times crime chap-books were published to give news about recent crimes , Wagner suggests that it was only toward the end of the seventeenth century that a diverse crime literature appeared . |
| 20 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |
| 21 | However , closer examination of how these deprivations were experienced within care-giving households suggests that it was often carers who bore the brunt of them , while trying to protect the living standards of the disabled or elderly person : |
| 22 | Although this plant occurs there today , its absence in the pollen record suggests that it was never common in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 23 | But although Lobkowicz ( 1967 ) cautions us against assuming that Aristotle 's distinction between theory and practice is similar to today 's usage , and suggests that it was as much a matter of the context as the content of knowledge — types of life as well as types of thought — the dichotomy is still very much with us . |
| 24 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 25 | And then Lily Moore had suggested that it was n't fair , that they ought to take turns at the pulpit and the font . |
| 26 | ‘ Have I ever suggested that it was otherwise ? ’ |
| 27 | The Direktor had suggested that it was not necessary for Willi to go , that in fact it would be much better if it were just him , Busacher , and no-one else . |
| 28 | Schroeder however does appear to equate unreasonableness with oppression but it is suggested that it was not laying down any principle to that effect : it so happened that on the facts in that case unreasonableness and oppression both existed . |
| 29 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 30 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |