Example sentences of "would be [adj] suggest that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The same holds good today and it would be idle to suggest that the victim of a robbery consents in any way to hand over his property , much less to transfer its ownership , to the robber . |
| 6 | Of course , it would be tempting to suggest that the independent rights of children are being forgotten in all of this . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would be uncharitable to suggest that the lead makers prefer this line because it not only keeps them in business , but shifts the immediate cost to the motorist and gives the motor components business a chance to make more money . |
| 13 | Thus it would be wrong to suggest that the young can behave uninhibitedly in contemporary society . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |