Example sentences of "suggesting [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 2 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 3 | The official report states that the broken piece of window bar was later found to have adhesive tape wrapped around each end , suggesting that it had been severed beforehand . |
| 4 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 5 | There has been wide disagreement among historians concerning the chronology of population recovery , some suggesting that it started before the end of the fourteenth century , others favouring dates around 1430 and others again preferring the early sixteenth century ( 59 ; 75 , p.15 ; 99 , p.269 ) . |
| 6 | The government denies this , but has published the text of a letter from its Political Adviser to the New China News Agency ( Beijing 's embassy in Hong Kong ) suggesting that it did . |