Example sentences of "be wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be wrong to dismiss this sort of criticism as mere sales talk , particularly in grand auctioneers ' catalogues , though there is little danger of such publications being reticent . |
| 2 | I feel that Albert Maillard , if he existed , would have no time for Kapuscinski 's impressionism , for his absence of dates , figures and state papers , and that Albert Maillard would be wrong . |
| 3 | She begins by recalling a remark made to her a long time ago by Larkin , about difficulties encountered in his private life — a remark which consisted of a joke to do with ‘ the impossibility of relations between men and women ’ , followed by the notion that ‘ women ought really to marry each other ’ , followed by ‘ but that would be wrong , would n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | While the party contains many who actively seek peace and reconciliation , it would be wrong to think of them in any sense as overcoming the basic conflictual components of bloc power in Ireland . |
| 5 | He further argued , or at least implied , that to permit a ‘ non-catholic ’ to adopt children would be wrong because it might put such children 's eternal salvation in jeopardy ( Whyte 1980 : 188–9 ) . |
| 6 | We do not take ‘ wrong turnings ’ ; it is in the nature of turnings to be wrong . |
| 7 | I believe we would be wrong to do less . ’ |
| 8 | I have tried to sketch in outline why I think this to be wrong . |
| 9 | BMC General Secretary Derek Walker would not speculate on the outcome of these meetings , adding : ‘ It would be wrong for me to pre-empt any decision of the Management Committee . |
| 10 | But they 'd be wrong . |
| 11 | Freudians , like Marxists , can not step outside their own forms of thought to admit that they might be wrong ( unless , like Crews , they undergo a deconversion ) . |
| 12 | Here the difficulty I found in talking about psychoanalytic criticism is compounded , not because I am an unbeliever , but because anything that the middle-aged male commentator says about feminism is liable to be wrong : to be approving may be condemned as patronizing , and to be critical is to be sexist . |
| 13 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 14 | Pound 's admirers will protest at this , but they will be wrong . |
| 15 | Lendl smiled and countered : ‘ It would be laughable if I did n't say it because it 's obvious that Wimbledon is my main goal — to pretend otherwise would be wrong . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ FIFTY million freshmen ca n't be wrong , ’ thought Boris . |
| 17 | It gave effect to the policy of the law that the parties to a judicial decision should not afterwards be allowed to re-litigate the same question , even though the decision might be wrong . |
| 18 | Certainly it would be wrong to associate anti-Bolshevik sentiment with religious persecution in too many cases . |
| 19 | The observer is sure that his memory must be wrong . |
| 20 | He saw that the intellectual side of him could not be wrong , somehow he must baptize it . |
| 21 | Here was an Anglo-Catholic who insisted on the apostolic succession of bishops , and thought intercommunion between the Churches , before a proper union , to be wrong , and yet refused to unchurch the Protestant Churches . |
| 22 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 23 | But unless the relative profitability of different enterprises on 1 April 1964 , or whatever date you like to choose , is sacrosanct and uniquely right , it must be wrong to freeze that pattern in perpetuity . |
| 24 | But it would be wrong to see The Waste Land as ‘ controlling … ordering … giving a shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history ’ in the way that Eliot believed Ulysses did . |
| 25 | But it is none the less effective for that , and it would be wrong to see it , as do some liberals , as a superstitious remnant from a blighted past . |
| 26 | But it would be wrong to hold psychoanalysis entirely responsible tor this slippage . |
| 27 | Most governments in the old Eastern Bloc were concerned with social discipline , and they also stressed the importance of authority wielded through a strong state , but it would be wrong to see them as Conservative . |
| 28 | Just to sell them a product without educating them to challenge and to care about the ingredients that go into those products would be wrong . |
| 29 | Give me that thing , it must be wrong . |
| 30 | But it must always be remembered that it is an assumption that body temperature and performance are parallel ( or oppositely phased in the case of short-term memory ) , an assumption that has not been tested under all conditions , and so , at times , might be wrong . |