Example sentences of "be a mistake [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Koch 's helmsmanship and the inconsistent selection of his afterguard have made headlines for yachting writers , it would be a mistake to dismiss him as a rich fool . |
| 2 | Important though these changes in the nature of the tax resistance movement are , however , perhaps it would be a mistake to view them as an isolated phenomenon , and to try to assess their moral and legal implications without also addressing some even more fundamental contemporary political , economic and social developments with which they are closely associated . |
| 3 | I had missed it on its first appearance , around 1974 , but considering the excellent standards of Baudo 's other Honegger recordings for the same label , it would be a mistake to overlook it entirely . |
| 4 | ( It would clearly be a mistake to spend it all at once and then not be able to advertise for the rest of the year . ) |
| 5 | Although it would be a mistake to see them as watertight compartments , or to pretend that issues raised in the first were not also relevant to the third , this division is helpful in indicating broad trends and key differences , which will be explored in the sections which follow . |
| 6 | Thus the Church offered opportunities to the ambitious as well as to the devout , although it would be a mistake to regard it as an egalitarian institution . |
| 7 | There are lessons for Northern Ireland , but it would be a mistake to exaggerate them . |
| 8 | ( But it would be a mistake to bring it back — we are bound to hang some unfortunate youth who would later be proved innocent by Ludovic Kennedy . ) |