Sentence examples for suspect a function from inspiring English sources

"That men care about height at all is, we suspect, a function of their realizing they may get rejected if they aren't quite a bit taller than their potential mates," she adds.

Hence, we suspect a rather tumor-promotive function of BG.

The exact function of the protein is not known, but we suspect a brain-specific NPC-related function because the protein is expressed in several human brain regions (Wawrzik et al. 2010).

For example, S100A2 (S100 calcium binding protein A) is suspected to have a function of tumour suppressor.

There's an absurdly inflated section on Robert Mapplethorpe – no other artist gets the full chapter treatment – that leads one to suspect he functions as a personal talisman (or warning) for Goldsmith when it comes to uptown avant gardism.

We suspect that clumping was a function of partial expression of the gene.

This invasive imaging modality allows diagnosis of communications between the cyst and thecal sac, which is suspected to function as a valve.

Some scientists suspect that the function of these feedback pathways may be to direct attention to particular objects in the visual field, but this has not been proved.

A cognitive complainers' dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and her anterior cingulate cortex showed, on average, more activity than those of women who did not suspect their cognitive function had declined.

We suspect that the function of these calls is manipulation of male mating and mate-guarding behaviour and that in this way the degree of sperm competition and ultimately male reproductive success is influenced.

Bill Peck, as Cliff Bradshaw, is a good foil to Williams, whose awkwardness, one suspects, is partly a function of the role and partly down to nerves.