Example sentences of "suggesting that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps this much can be said without suggesting that the book is an epic for Kenya Asians , which tells of a people threatened by nobodies , nothings , and managing to survive . |
| 2 | To imagine this is to be aware that the aggressive term which I have applied to Amis 's novelistic method , ‘ ventriloquism ’ , has the drawback of suggesting that when an author throws his voice , the character who receives it will necessarily be found to be inanimate , a dummy . |
| 3 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 4 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 5 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 6 | Furlong is correct , however , in suggesting that anxiety was rife , and because of this and establishment obsessions with a belief in a statistical truth we were constantly being asked to give numerical estimates of how many there were ‘ out there ’ who were ‘ fixing ’ , ‘ using the weed ’ , or ‘ dropping acid ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Cameron , are you suggesting that your repeated speeches — and mind , we have abundant eye-witness testimony concerning them — contained no word about the driving out of proprietors ? |
| 8 | But it is not a conclusion : ‘ All my family were priests , from Aaron to my father , ’ suggesting that on the family 's spice-box should be inscribed ( as was the old custom ) : |
| 9 | ( I admit I am suggesting that we replace one kind of dualism with another ! ) |
| 10 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 11 | The local Licensed Victuallers Association have pointed out that all six pubs have gardens and car parks , suggesting that they will be converted to plastic ‘ eating houses ’ . |
| 12 | British Telecom will disconnect your phone at the exchange while you are away , so that callers will hear the discontinued number tone , suggesting that you 've changed the number , did n't pay the bill , or there 's a fault on the line — BT wo n't tell them . |
| 13 | Tredell 's analysis is perhaps too synchronic , suggesting that the various modes of literary theory coexist , whether easily or uneasily . |
| 14 | Quantity is easier to consider than quality , of course , and I have found that a promotions committee can be thrown into bemusement and mild disarray by suggesting that many of the publications on a candidate 's CV might better have not been published . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , in laboratories in Essen , Bernard Prinz was suggesting that forest decline was caused by damage to foliage by ozone , another gas produced as a by-product of industry . |
| 16 | But the SPD , instead of exuding the sort of assurance suggesting that the general election in December next year belongs to it , struggles to hide its edginess . |
| 17 | Readers may have received mail shots with the Barclaycard logo suggesting that they stand a good chance of winning a six figure sum of money and a car in a prize draw . |
| 18 | Lord Donaldson asked if he was seriously suggesting that juries would multiply the award by 10 times . |
| 19 | An overwhelming majority were also in favour of the mixed economy , suggesting that the reformers are opposed not because of their policies , but because of their image . |
| 20 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 21 | At a meeting of the European Commission last week , the Commissioner for tax , France 's Christiane Scrivener , shocked her colleagues by suggesting that the member states ' case may prove overwhelming or at least that the system as first proposed should be put back until 1995 . |
| 22 | He then goes on to criticise Labour for suggesting that priority spending on education and training can help overcome the difficulties of the balance of payments deficit — because such investment programmes take generations to work through the system . |
| 23 | Last week , she outraged her Commission colleagues by suggesting that the government 's paper , which has unanimous backing , might prove irresistible . |
| 24 | Following their defeat of Ampleforth , Mount St Mary 's beat a successful Leeds GS side 39-3 , suggesting that they are among the strongest school sides in the country . |
| 25 | But in apparently suggesting that armies of feckless teenagers should be supplied with free contraceptives , Sir Keith irked the right too , which has been traditionally critical of the notion of indulging the young with the means of sexual hedonism unhampered by restraints . |
| 26 | Is the writer seriously suggesting that changing from a system where fees are paid in full by the state to a system where they are paid wholly or partly by the student is likely to be encouraging ? |
| 27 | Mr Le Pen launched a tirade of Nazi terminology , suggesting that his MEPs were being treated as Untermenschen . |
| 28 | But there was no indication that Mr Beregovoy , speaking at a business seminar , was suggesting that there were any negotiations for full British EMS membership . |
| 29 | Mr Le Pen launched his own tirade of Nazi terminology , suggesting that his party members were being treated as Untermenschen . |
| 30 | The Fed and the Treasury are again at cross purposes , with one suggesting that rising inflation is the greater fear while the other insists that the climbing trade deficit is the most serious concern . |