Example sentences of "it is tempting [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conclusions must be drawn carefully since the timing of the change may be coincidental , but it is tempting to conclude that the increased competitive pressures following liberalisation may have put small practices at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 2 | It is tempting to conclude that perhaps there could be a complementary relationship between positivist and classical criminology — one providing the focus on individual , social and economic factors , the other on penal and legal ones . |
| 3 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 4 | As the introduction of the two G-C base pairs in the D-stem of mutant a207 is required for the synthesis of m 2 2G26 ( 20 ) , it is tempting to speculate that m 2 2G26-formation might be a prerequisite for efficient formation of Ψ40 . |
| 5 | Extrapolation of data from rat to man is difficult , but it is tempting to speculate that the findings in the present study may have its parallel in man and explain some findings reported in patients with diseases accompanied by hypergastrinemia . |
| 6 | It is tempting to speculate that this factor may be early childhood sun exposure , which not only causes development of large numbers of naevi but also acts as an initiating agent for later development of melanoma . |
| 7 | It is tempting to speculate that either of these regions in CREB might include the CBP100 binding site . |
| 8 | It is tempting to suppose that making pictures is almost devoid of theory ; but no artist was ever really a kind of camera , and both theory and fashion entered into scientific illustration . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is tempting to suppose that the appeal of English a cappella groups in Europe ( not to mention in America ) is that the sound of Oxbridge chapel voices is so very ‘ classy ’ in every sense of the word . |
| 10 | It is tempting to say that this will make no difference . |
| 11 | It is tempting to say that they have no function besides advancing the story or embellishing the characters , no value outside their immediate context . |
| 12 | ( It is tempting to say that they are rare , but the truth is that they only seem rare because we avoid them . ) |
| 13 | It is tempting to fantasise that leaders and parties make their reputations through finely tuned arguments in the House of Commons or speeches in far-flung halls . |
| 14 | As 1989 ends , it is tempting to imagine that Europe is emerging into a wholly new identity , governed by peace not war , common aspirations rather than sectional concerns . |
| 15 | It is tempting to imagine that Modigliani was acting out the runner 's part in his life with Beatrice in those years . |
| 16 | It seems that polled cattle existed in Ireland long , long before any invaders would have introduced polled Scandinavian cattle , though it is tempting to assume that polled cattle , especially if they are colour-sided or dun , have Scandinavian origins . |
| 17 | It is tempting to assume that the same rule applies , but quasar redshifts are , in some cases , very much bigger than any measured galaxy redshift , so the assumption involves considerable extrapolation . |
| 18 | It is tempting to assume that those particularly committed to Language in Education would have replied , but there is no way of being sure about this . |
| 19 | It is tempting to suggest that the same kind of jigsaw process will explain the shape of an elephant , but almost certainly it is not true . |
| 20 | The dinosaurs took over instead ; and it is tempting to suggest that the mammals failed to seize their chance precisely because the dinosaurs beat them to it : in the first encounter , if such it was , the dinosaurs won . |
| 21 | It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have . |
| 22 | Although it is tempting to suggest that analogous neurons are involved in the orientation discrimination of bees , this temptation should be resisted — at least for the time being . |
| 23 | If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds . |
| 24 | Since all the preferred cleavage sites contain a guanine base it is tempting to suggest that the specificity arises from the formation of hydrogen bonds to this base , possibly involving the 2-amino group [ 13 ] . |
| 25 | But it is tempting to suspect that one reason for Mr Major 's reluctance to shake out his cabinet is that he can not think who to put there instead . |
| 26 | It is tempting to think that economic reform in Latin America is incompatible with democracy . |
| 27 | It is tempting to think that slashing the defence budget , which was £24 billion or 10% of total public spending in 1992–93 , would be enough . |
| 28 | It is tempting to think that what is being attempted is some sort of solar containment , trapping the power of the sun and storing for energy . |
| 29 | It is tempting to think that one of these robbed tombs may have been that of Imhotep , buried near to the king he had served . |
| 30 | So little of a reliable nature is known of Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's life , so prominent is the association of him with Aksaray that it is tempting to think that he passed his whole life there : such certainly is the thrust of the Ottoman sources as well as Melikoff 's article . |