verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a poll shows/indicates/suggests sth
▪ Polls show that older voters are most concerned about economic issues.
a study suggests/indicates sth
▪ A British study suggests that older drivers are safer drivers.
a survey suggests sth
▪ Recent surveys suggest that these are the foreign languages most in demand by employers.
an analysis suggests/indicates sth
▪ Our analysis suggests that these problems are widespread.
common sense suggests sth
▪ People don't always do what common sense suggests.
data indicates/suggests sth
▪ Our data indicates that weather patterns are likely to get more extreme.
experience suggests/shows sth
▪ Experience suggests that children who commit crimes will continue to offend as adults.
logic suggests sth (=used when you want to argue that something is reasonable)
▪ Logic suggests that if the air is warmer, more water evaporates.
statistics suggest sth
▪ Housing conditions are far worse than the statistics suggest.
sth suggests a connection
▪ There is nothing to suggest a connection between the hospital food and the illness.
strongly suggest/advise/recommend sth
▪ Before taking action, you are strongly recommended to consult an accountant.
suggest an alternative
▪ Do you have an alternative you can suggest?
suggest/put forward a solution
▪ The chairman put forward a possible solution.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ It also suggests a unity of interest between the various forces of finance and conservatism.
▪ The findings also suggest that recession and growing parental responsibility have resulted in fewer legalized women immigrants working outside the home.
▪ Some economists have also suggested that the present sales taxes should be replaced by a valued added tax.
▪ It also suggests political standards haven't changed much.
▪ The research also suggests that farmers overestimate the size of the fox population.
▪ We also suggest that the kind of mix that results has great significance for the stability and performance of the political system.
▪ The report also suggests that multinational users now have the clout to force service providers to cut their prices.
▪ If you have any queries your pharmacist will be pleased to give advice and may also suggest that you visit your dentist.
strongly
▪ Circumstantial evidence, I know, but evidence that strongly suggests that the engineer was clobbered by a heavy metallic instrument.
▪ All the phenomena to be described under the section Complex Partial Seizures strongly suggest a temporal lobe origin.
▪ The experiments with clock-shifted pigeons, however, strongly suggest that the sun supplies their preferred compass.
▪ The evidence from excellent companies strongly suggests that managers who feel this way are doing them selves a disservice.
▪ This strongly suggests that the peripheral males are exploiting the calling male's ability to attract females.
▪ The results from more than a decade of study strongly suggest that, in fact, there is a connection.
▪ The foregoing strongly suggests that dividend policy and practice contains important information for the shareholder.
▪ Evidence strongly suggests that a serious problem exists and research is needed to better understand this phenomenon and its causes.
■ NOUN
data
▪ Nevertheless, the data suggest that if levels were more accurate they would have been lower in the peptic ulcer group.
▪ However, this result may be misleading, as two of those commenting on Buss's data have suggested.
▪ The data suggest that gender role is influential.
▪ But the polling data and interviews suggest something else as well.
▪ These data suggest that overall between 1% and 2% of boys need circumcision for medical indications.
▪ Comparative data in Chapter 3 suggested that in most countries few adults are political gladiators.
▪ All these data suggest that H5 is associated with chromatin that is inactive in transcription and replication.
▪ Moreover, the data suggest that Baumol-type models can account for only a very small proportion of total transactions balances.
evidence
▪ The central dogma is of course a theory, but there is no evidence to suggest that it is wrong.
▪ This myth survives even though there is not a lot of evidence to suggest that it is true.
▪ The evidence of Western civilisation suggests that the status of older people has been generally low, but variably so.
▪ There is another piece of evidence to suggest that there is not hostility.
▪ The evidence would suggest at least that Heahberht was established and secured in power in Kent through Offa's intervention and support.
▪ There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision.
▪ Labour spokesman David Oakenson says there's evidence to suggest the blame lies with Swindon Police.
experience
▪ However, experience around the country suggests that materials arrive late in the school term or not at all.
▪ My own experience suggests that journalists seem pro-change because change is news and status quo is not.
▪ On the contrary, it is the context, matched, or mismatched, to past experience, which suggests appropriate labelling.
▪ This is an uncommon situation as experimental experience suggests that the energy change is finite.
▪ Past experience suggests that some governments, at least, may not be prepared to sit this one out.
▪ Case study experience further suggests that even this use is questionable.
▪ Valenzuela's experience suggest - disturbingly - that it could happen to anyone.
report
▪ Before his report Mr Brown had suggested that he would only be freezing duty.
▪ Already there are reports of testimony suggesting that Steffi knew of the alleged tax-evasion scam all along.
▪ The report suggests that individual products could be labelled to inform the public about how much electricity the appliances consume.
▪ Even so, recent economic reports suggest growth is flagging.
▪ Editor's Note: The report was misleading in suggesting Mr Bacon's remarks were made at the inquiry.
▪ The report also suggested Braun had been guilty of felony mishandling of public funds.
▪ He's published a report suggesting new restrictions on bikes, even though he's a rider himself.
▪ In recent weeks, reports from the area suggest the situation has worsened.
research
▪ There has been research which suggests that moderately strong automatic stemming can be applied in specialized online reference retrieval searching.
▪ There is very little research to suggest whether skill standards and certificates will work in the United States.
▪ The latter's research suggests that patients receiving clozapine may well cost services less over time by producing more positive clinical outcomes.
▪ Other research has suggested that such chemicals may cause damage when they are combined.
▪ Today, some research suggests that 50 percent of the city's intravenous drug users have been infected.
▪ But research suggests that in many or most countries, male attitudes are not a major barrier to family planning.
▪ The subjects of research can be suggested by those closest to the problem.
▪ Whether bound for work or college, this research suggests, many students are too passive.
result
▪ Early results from Roosevelt suggest that the pathway focus actually may encourage students to take more, not less, academics.
▪ Our preliminary results suggest that endosonography is better than computed tomography in the evaluation of tumour infiltration in these patients.
▪ One might think that the business interests would have more sway, but the results suggest otherwise.
▪ These results suggest that the loss of intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions may be associated with the recurrence of gastric ulcers.
▪ These result suggest that most elderly patients have some difficulty in making the best use of eye-drops.
▪ The results suggest that polymeric diets are as safe and effective as steroids in inducing short term remission.
▪ This theory has recently been investigated scientifically, and the results suggest that it could well be correct.
study
▪ Our study therefore suggests three important conclusions.
▪ But recent studies suggest this category makes up less than 12 percent of minimum wage workers.
▪ This study suggests some degree of idiopathic autonomic denervation in patients with slow transit constipation.
▪ But most research studies suggest that sharing practical support is more characteristic of women.
▪ Other studies suggest supplementation at 400 to 800 International Units.
▪ Neither he nor his aides refuted a recent study suggesting that the bill would push 2. 6 million people into poverty.
▪ In fact, some studies suggest that younger and fitter people fare worse than those who are older and less fit.
■ VERB
seem
▪ And it is arguable that the mine closures were a blessing, not the disaster which Susanna Rance seems to suggest.
▪ As I came out of the pinon foothills, the flat openness still seemed to suggest swarms of screaming mounted warriors.
▪ The advertiser seems to suggest that it could be, if you ate their product.
▪ This would seem to suggest that the head can not belong to the Aztec civilisation.
▪ To many of them it seemed abhorrent to suggest that the Mosaic law was other than final.
▪ It seems reasonable to suggest that the natural theme we is omitted in the second sentence in order to foreground the rheme.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dare I say/suggest
▪ Dohnányi, dare I say it, is merely bland.
▪ Fashionwise, it was not a night to look, dare I say it, nice.
▪ For children of all ages this is a fascinating display and one, dare I say it, which reaches new heights.
▪ Of course some of Our Guild Members are dare I say it just that wee bit narrow minded.
▪ What if some one could undergo that absorption with a cool ... dare I say it? ... scientific rationale.
▪ You may, dare I say it, need the money.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ''Why don't you come with us?" Alan suggested.
▪ "Why not ask Dad?" he suggested.
▪ A child's behavior might suggest to others that there are problems at home.
▪ All members are invited to suggest names.
▪ All the evidence suggests that the problem has improved in recent years.
▪ Can you suggest where we might be able to get a decent meal?
▪ Current data suggests that there could be life on Mars.
▪ He spread his hands to suggest the size of the fish.
▪ His letter seemed to suggest that he wasn't satisfied with my work.
▪ I'm not suggesting you deliberately tried to mislead us, just that you made a mistake.
▪ I'm not sure which is the best wine to order. What would you suggest?
▪ I suggest we take a break and finish this later.
▪ In fact, the situation is far worse than these figures suggest.
▪ It is still not clear what these facts suggest -- perhaps a new strain of the virus, or a completely new virus.
▪ It was a sunny afternoon, and Jim suggested a trip to the beach.
▪ It was raining heavily, and she suggested calling a taxi.
▪ My Dad suggested that I should apply for the job.
▪ Robert suggested his son for the vacant directorship.
▪ Sarah suggested that I should apply for this job.
▪ The door had not been forced open, which strongly suggests that the victim was known to her killer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A $ 10 donation is suggested.
▪ He suggested abortion two or three times and made it very clear that he thought I was making a mistake.
▪ It may be suggested that there is an element of rejection in being referred.
▪ On most patients, the repetition by themselves of one word will cause the associated words to suggest themselves.
▪ Readers may recall that President Ronald Reagan once suggested himself that trees were polluters.
▪ The date of this odd but interesting ballet might suggest intimations of flower power.
▪ These changes in mortality, especially among the old elderly, suggest that we have not reached the maximum human lifespan.
▪ This suggests that Mr Lion had been deliberately singled out as a scapegoat and given no time to defend himself.