Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [adj] to suggest that " in BNC.

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1 It is wholly wrong to suggest that it is the European Community alone which has difficulties with the agriculture dossier .
2 It is thus tempting to suggest that the same X-box binding complex may act both as an activator and as a repressor .
3 He said : ‘ It is totally wrong to suggest that up to 90pc of all equipment in special baby care units is provided by charity .
4 It is probably pointless to suggest that Mr Brittlebank now seek ( not seeks ) the guidance on English usage so clearly denied him hitherto , but I hope he will think twice before presuming upon your columns on this particular subject in future .
5 This appears to be an interpolation , and Krueger is probably right to suggest that the original had per damnationem legati .
6 Yet it is probably fair to suggest that few people could have been immune from the implications of the party struggle at Westminster , since decisions taken by the central government often had a direct affect on ordinary people 's lives , and few people could have avoided being exposed to the political controversies of the day through the various media of propaganda .
7 In the present state of research it is probably fair to suggest that although influence did have a powerful impact on the outcome of a number of elections , on the whole the electorate was not particularly easy to control , and that members of the political elite , despite all their efforts , often failed to achieve their ends .
8 It is clearly ridiculous to suggest that effective research can be carried out only in the absence of an adult experimenter .
9 It is also fair to suggest that the Labour Party benefited from the rising unemployment of the 1920s for it claimed , successfully in the 1920s , that although it could not solve unemployment , which was a product of a capitalist society , it would at least ensure that the unemployed were guaranteed a level of benefits which would ensure healthy life .
10 And it is equally inadequate to suggest that the audience should only respond morally , elevated by the supposed triumph of good over evil — even though for many people now this is undoubtedly the effect of tragedy .
11 And this self , in the introductory chapter , is surely right to suggest that moral sense and a sense of the numinous do not come naturally — as some anthropological dismissals of religion might suggest — from some crude pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe .
12 Professor Peter Green is surely right to suggest that the cult of Pericles , and the idea of a decline following his death in 429 BC , reflect the persistence of a mistrust of democracy among many modern commentators on ancient Greece .
13 It is quite absurd to suggest that the US government , or any other food surplus government , plans such things .
14 Mr Smith is quite correct to suggest that the experience for the pilot would be uncomfortable to say the least .
15 Thus it is quite plausible to suggest that see evokes some form of inference here .
16 First of all , your dealer is quite wrong to suggest that losing so many fish is normal for a new tank .
17 At length , with a sigh and in a conversational tone which did not match Dr Dunstaple 's oratory for effect , he observed : " Dr Dunstaple is quite wrong to suggest that there is an accepted treatment for cholera .
18 Er partly because it 's completely impractical to suggest that all patients should have an expensive er video flow study .
19 Who said ‘ it 's completely absurd to suggest that there is anything unprofessional in my friendship with the Duchess .
20 ‘ It 's completely absurd to suggest that there is anything unprofessional in my friendship with the Duchess .
21 It is too simplistic to suggest that by offering improved opportunities in a less restrictive setting , individuals with often severe learning difficulties , frequently additional disabilities , and histories of damaging experiences , will thereby have access to improved , more satisfying life-styles .
22 It is therefore reasonable to suggest that one of the MOs of a 1 symmetry is largely O 2s in character , while the O 2p z and H ( 1s + 1s ) orbitals combine to generate bonding and anti-bonding MOs .
23 It is therefore reasonable to suggest that a staging system might be devised which is based upon the type and genetic changes associated with conventional tumour stage and , more importantly , with survival .
24 It is therefore misleading to suggest that there has been ‘ barely any debate ’ .
25 The jurist is therefore able to suggest that the testator intended those sums also to be released .
26 It is certainly counter-intuitive to suggest that widely separated systems retain such a degree of influence upon each other .
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