Example sentences of "it would be [adj] pretend that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would be dishonest to pretend that the NSPCC is making any significant impact on the problem — even they would not claim it . ’ |
| 2 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 3 | It would be nice to pretend that our decision to try retinoic acid , a derivative of vitamin A , was based on sound chemical principles . |
| 4 | I do not think it would be reasonable to pretend that the cost of paying people , recruiting them and retaining them is the same in the south-east as in other parts of the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | It would be wrong to pretend that in a booklet of this size , we can do any more than raise some of these issues and give an overview of the way in which the company tries to deal with them . |
| 6 | It would be foolish to pretend that ‘ The Railway Age ’ was perfect . |
| 7 | It would be foolish to pretend that the evidence in favour of enforcing trusts for performance directly is very strong . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Teddy Boys first emerged , for example , from the slum neighbourhoods of working-class London — and it would be difficult to pretend that communities such as the Elephant and Castle were blessed with ‘ affluence ’ , or anything approaching it . |
| 10 | It would be idle to pretend that any of the Pacific islands have the kind of economic importance possessed by , say , Korea , or Malaysia , but in addition to potentially immense political importance and no small amount of charm , they have a symbolic significance — for they are what the world still thinks of when confronted with the single word , Pacific . |
| 11 | It would be idle to pretend that the Trust is wholly free from some of these faults ; few organisations are . |
| 12 | But it would be idle to pretend that there were not frivolous appeals and attempts by parties to delay and frustrate justice and to be obstructive if it suited them , when litigants learned how to " play " the courts to their advantage . |