Example sentences of "[pron] would be [adj] suggest that " in BNC.

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31 It would be foolish to suggest that getting the vote had no beneficial consequences for women .
32 Compulsion can not be dismissed as incapable of bringing about change , after all we compel children to attend school between the ages of five and sixteen and it would be foolish to suggest that no genuine change takes place as a result .
33 While it would be foolish to suggest that a comparable problem does not exist at all in Britain , it is important to recognize that ours is a more simple system in which individual agencies have more clearly defined powers and more definite boundaries to their responsibilities and sphere of influence .
34 Therefore , either the acoustic-phonetic component must reduce the phoneme graph depth further while still guaranteeing the inclusion of the target phoneme in all successive vertical slots in the graph — but it would be optimistic to suggest that this will be possible in the foreseeable future — or else , lexical and post-lexical processing must be enriched to constrain further the alternative number of derived word strings .
35 She knew it would be useless to suggest that running away to Bristol looked more suspicious than pretending a stomach upset and staying at home .
36 It would be unwise to suggest that any of these remembered families can stand as typical .
37 It would be uncharitable to suggest that the lead makers prefer this line because it not only keeps them in business , but shifts the immediate cost to the motorist and gives the motor components business a chance to make more money .
38 Fortunately , those days are over , but it would be deceitful to suggest that constructing a pool was anything other than hard work , for even with modern materials a considerable amount of energy has to be expended .
39 It would be unfair to suggest that teachers , consciously or unconsciously , use serviceable but pejorative , inflexible impressions , or stereotypes , about black youth .
40 It would be unfair to suggest that our Victorian predecessors deliberately compared tribal customs with those of early man in order to discredit the indigenous peoples they were colonizing .
41 It would be churlish to suggest that either RWC or the Italian Federation fell down in some areas because of a lack of will to make the event succeed .
42 The same holds good today and it would be idle to suggest that the victim of a robbery consents in any way to hand over his property , much less to transfer its ownership , to the robber .
43 Of course , it would be tempting to suggest that the independent rights of children are being forgotten in all of this .
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