Example sentences of "it [vb mod] be foolish [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be foolish to pretend that ‘ The Railway Age ’ was perfect . |
| 2 | It would be foolish to pretend that the evidence in favour of enforcing trusts for performance directly is very strong . |
| 3 | The poem may be read through quickly by a newcomer to the study of Wordsworth , but it would be foolish to pretend that there are no difficulties . |
| 4 | It would be foolish to suppose that we can penetrate the causes of this striking movement with any precision ; but the example of John of Salisbury makes it abundantly clear that the love of travel , the fashion for wandering , played a major role . |
| 5 | It would be foolish to claim that the unions have done nothing right since 1979 . |
| 6 | It would be foolish to deny that there has been great suspicion that when we talk about freedoms and flexibilities what we are actually talking about is worsening existing terms and conditions . |
| 7 | It would be foolish to imagine that GIS can assist in all hazard studies , emergencies and disasters . |
| 8 | Given the similarities between the financial services and audit regimes , it would be foolish to imagine that a revolution in the former would not , at the very least , reopen the debate about audit regulation . |
| 9 | And it would be foolish to imagine that the Western democracies have a monopoly of the relevant experience in that respect . |
| 10 | It would be foolish to suggest that a river should never be tapped for energy or for agriculture , but the world 's politicians have not yet chosen to realize what enormous consequences such action has , or how long those consequences take to unfold , or — an essential consideration — that it is literally impossible to predict all that will ensue when a river is tapped . |
| 11 | It would be foolish to suggest that getting the vote had no beneficial consequences for women . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As with all the social services , it would be foolish to assume that executors of policy on the ground are always the obedient poodles of those who think up grand designs . |
| 15 | Erm , it 's again recognized in the S S As that it is more social factors that impact on the need to spend on children 's services , and therefore things like single parent families , the level of family income and these tend to have a greater impact , but it would be foolish to assume that with a higher child population you are not going to get more demands on children 's services , and therefore we have provided a fifty thousand pounds ' provision within that to take care of problems . |
| 16 | Given the inherent uncertainty of moral interpretation in social life , it would be foolish to believe that we could come up with a definition of aggression that would allow us to unambiguously classify , much less measure , instances of aggressive conduct in unfamiliar societies . |
| 17 | It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent . |
| 18 | ‘ It would be foolish to forget that it 's happened before . |