Example sentences of "to suggest [that] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trees were rustling silver in the moonlight and the garden , as always , waved its grass nonchalantly , trying to suggest that nothing was going on . |
| 2 | This tends to suggest that one should look more closely at the characteristics of those sustained or not sustained at home , and at the decision to admit to an institution . |
| 3 | ignoring the difficulties of following the advice of others from outside one 's own work setting , especially if it seems to suggest that one 's own expertise is to be supplanted by it |
| 4 | If , as McGuire ( 1986 ) has argued , social psychologists need to study the structure of attitudes , then rhetorical theorists seem to suggest that one should study the structure of public debate on social issues , in order to determine the structure of attitudes . |
| 5 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 6 | I am reminded that when I suggested that the £7 billion of expenditure on the European fighter aircraft might be better spent — it seems dodgy anyhow — or used for civilian aircraft , his contribution to planned change was to suggest that nobody wants single-seater civilian aircraft flying at 750 mph . |
| 7 | To suggest that everything we are — our health , our wealth , the very structure of society — is encoded in our DNA is simply to justify the status quo . |
| 8 | Industry does not stop because one of our political parties likes to suggest that everything in Britain is going wrong . |
| 9 | The article is the sharpest challenge by a Cabinet minister to church leaders , whom Mr Patten accuses of refusing to suggest that anyone except governments and institutions can actually be bad . |
| 10 | A. The state of amphibians being so threatened at the moment , I am almost reluctant to suggest that anyone keeps native species , but I have to concede that the common toad Bufo bufo is a fascinating animal . |
| 11 | I say ‘ borrowed ’ because it would be impolite to suggest that anyone might have stolen them . ’ |
| 12 | In areas such as Cheltenham , Hereford and Eastbourne there is little to suggest that anything new has happened to enable them to translate this into general election support . |
| 13 | Not a snigger to suggest that anybody in the audience even knew this was a joke . |
| 14 | It would be paranoia , of course , to suggest that someone had arranged for him to drop into this particular hole , but it was certainly true that no one would be eager to fish him out . |