The findings etc. discussed here are from …
This means that …
It is clear that …
The statistics show clearly that …
It is significant that …
Significantly, …
Most significantly, …
… plays a major role in …
an important point
a fundamental factor
the main cause of … is …
This raises a number of questions
It is probable that …
It is likely that …
It seems clear that …
… can be attributed to …
This suggests that …
This indicates that …
This or the evidence points to … as a factor in …
The findings indicate that …
The data suggest that …
This seems to indicate that …
…, which indicates or suggests or confirms …
…, indicating or suggesting or confirming that …
It is possible that …
this may be due to …
It is possible to speculate …
One may speculate whether …
It can hardly be a coincidence that …
preliminary evidence suggests that …
The preliminary findings suggest …
There are a number of factors or points worth noting:
The results suggest that … is due to … rather than …
The significance of … as a factor in … is suggested by …
The benefits of this approach are immediately visible
The existence of … may be illustrated by …
The influence of … on … is indisputable
This means that we are able to link … and …
It is important to distinguish carefully between …
It is important to emphasize US and GB or emphasise GB …
Here we see an example of the importance of …
This underlines the importance of …
It is perhaps not surprising that …
An interesting aspect of … that emerges is …
given the findings etc. discussed or described above
Given …, it is possible to propose or state that …
It is uncertain whether …
One interpretation of this would be …
One reading of this would be …
One way of interpreting …
Turning this around, we can say that …
It is important not to overlook …
There are systematic differences in …
… is not primarily governed or determined by …, but by …
The consequences of this are …
One of the most obvious consequences of … is …
A further important consequence of … is that …
… may have a number of implications for …
… has or have important implications for …
A further implication of … is that …
Agreement
Taken together, …
Similar results were or have been obtained by …
Similar results are found in …, suggesting that …
The results coincide with those of X
This finding is consistent with …
The results are consistent with …
As predicted, …
as predicted by the model
… shows or showed evidence of …
there is limited evidence of …
The findings etc. provide conclusive support for …
this has reinforced our view that …
Many of our or the findings confirm … found by X
The results closely match those obtained by X
The results generally agree with those obtained in previous studies.
The results agree by and large with those reported in a study of … by X.
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