Example sentences of "misleading [to-vb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is misleading to write of Aquitaine as though it were one vast feudal jungle where vassals rebelled against their lords , nephews fought against their uncles , and all done with a passionate ferocity which left little or no room for effective ducal government . |
| 2 | It is misleading to talk of thinking as a mental activity . |
| 3 | As Rhodes ( 1981p. 18 ) observes , ‘ it is misleading to talk of central control . |
| 4 | Anthropology thus played a central role in the development of Marxism but it would be totally misleading to think of Marx and Engels as early anthropologists . |
| 5 | The press have played a major part in popularizing spectator sport and sustaining interest in it , but it is misleading to think of professional football , for example , as having been created or manufactured by the media . |
| 6 | In truth , it is rather misleading to think of the ‘ 10 minute ’ rule procedure as being a part of the legislative process at all . |
| 7 | At one moment we shall be talking in terms of billions of years and billions of light years ; at the next we shall focus on events that are of importance for only billionths of a second involving particles so small that it is misleading to think of them as material objects . |
| 8 | Furthermore , so many traders were involved in non-European countries independently of their governments that it is misleading to think of world trade only in national terms . |
| 9 | It is misleading to think of the County Council primarily as a body of elected representatives who make decisions of policy and then order officials to execute them . |
| 10 | Schramm wrote : ‘ … it is misleading to think of the communication process as starting somewhere and ending somewhere . |
| 11 | However , it is misleading to think of the Central Wales Line as having developed originally as a route from NW England to S Wales . |
| 12 | In law , and in practice , it is misleading to speak of ‘ proposals ’ emanating from a delegate . |
| 13 | Wishes can of course be fulfilled or remain unfulfilled and things may or may not be as people with certain attitudes would like , but it would be thoroughly misleading to speak of truth or falsehood here . |
| 14 | If this view is right , it is misleading to speak of the empirical content of an individual statement — especially if it is a statement at all remote from the experiential periphery of the field . |
| 15 | But it would be misleading to speak of separation given the religious foundations of his natural philosophy . |
| 16 | It is misleading to speak of bats as though they were all the same . |