Example sentences of "it would be [adj] suggest that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say ‘ borrowed ’ because it would be impolite to suggest that anyone might have stolen them . ’ |
| 2 | It would be pretentious to suggest that librarians can overturn the practice of censorship in non-democratic states , yet that is no reason for inaction . |
| 3 | It would be dangerous to suggest that this impossibility is in any strong sense theoretical , i.e. open to mathematical proof , and I will assume it is no more than a strong empirical impossibility . |
| 4 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 5 | Whilst we stress the artificial nature of most time-cues , it would be misleading to suggest that natural light is without effect . |
| 6 | It would be misleading to suggest that there was anything approaching a complete intellectual segregation between criminology and penology , even in their sociological versions . |
| 7 | However , it would be misleading to suggest that fascist violence was the sole cause of conflict . |
| 8 | While it would be misleading to suggest that small firms are important across all manufacturing industries , it is also incorrect to assume that small firms are confined to traditionally labour-intensive industries like textiles , clothing , furnishing or ceramics . |
| 9 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
| 10 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 11 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 12 | There is nothing to suggest any direct seigneurial interest in the plot or characters of the tale ; although the comedy of Dame Sirith does at least assume knowledge and recognition of the conventions of chivalric behaviour , it would be absurd to suggest that knowledge of such conventions was socially limited in any significant way in the later thirteenth century . |
| 13 | It would be ridiculous to suggest that black kids who are constantly being geared up by teachers to thrust themselves into sports , do not , at some stage , recognize that there exists a manipulative element : they feel they are regarded as naturally gifted sportsmen ( see Vince Hilaire 's opening quotation ) , but without an abundance of intellectual equipment , who are used for the purposes of bringing prestige to both the individual teacher and the school . |
| 14 | There is an analogy with natural language and it would be ridiculous to suggest that writing an article or report using " Esperanto " infringed any copyright subsisting in the language . |
| 15 | It would be impertinent to suggest that Keynes dichotomised his private and professional life and in this sense discretionary monetary policy and deficit spending by government although recommended as a technical solution to a technical problem , must be seen as the prescriptions of a self-confessed immoralist . |
| 16 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 17 | It would be mischievous to suggest that pupils who pay attention to the teacher 's traditional emphases in primary mathematics give themselves a positive disadvantage for future success in mathematics , but the evidence seems to point in this direction . |
| 18 | Six theses in this category were from Imperial College , and it would be reasonable to suggest that the copies consulted , and subsequently cited by authors other than the thesis authors , were from London University 's main library , where the set of theses for inter-library loan is kept . |
| 19 | It would be reasonable to suggest that while word stress was independent of intonation , the placement of tonic stress was a function ( the accentual function ) of intonation . |
| 20 | It would be crass to suggest that any employer welcomes high levels of unemployment . |
| 21 | It would be unrealistic to suggest that a good organic diet , daily meditation and aromatherapy massage is the answer to life 's problems , and that it will somehow cocoon us in an etheric pink haze for the rest of our days ! |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to suggest that the draw has not presented Sardinia with an even bigger security problem than it had bargained for . |
| 23 | It would be wrong to suggest that women were a liberated force for female emancipation in Huaiwiri . |
| 24 | It would be wrong to suggest that any segment of an eighteenth-century electorate was truly independent , and a number of ties joined the freeholders to the party , or interest , of a local politician . |
| 25 | Thus it would be wrong to suggest that the young can behave uninhibitedly in contemporary society . |
| 26 | It would be wrong to suggest that the long-term male unemployed of 1989 were the same people as those made redundant from factories in earlier years , but in geography the correlation is very close . |
| 27 | The Tories in general were more isolationist than the Whigs , although it would be wrong to suggest that they were not sympathetic to the desire to contain France after 1689 . |
| 28 | It would be wrong to suggest that the disturbances were motivated solely by hostility towards Dissent , since they reflected a complex series of political grievances against the current Whig government ; yet that is precisely the point being made here , that antipathy towards Dissent had become deeply politicised . |
| 29 | One reason is that the commercial transaction test seems to go too far ; many transactions which will be generally regarded as perfectly legitimate forms of investment , are entered into solely , or at least predominantly , for tax reasons , and I think it would be wrong to suggest that they might be taxable for that reason alone . |
| 30 | 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 . |