Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] suggest " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ridiculous to suggest that this or any other police force ignores bomb warnings.The IRA 's claim that a warning was given in this case is just not true . |
| 2 | Lady Colin added : ‘ It 's preposterous to suggest we were behind this . ’ |
| 3 | It 's wrong to suggest all barriers have broken down . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's unfair to suggest that nature conservation is always about fencing off pretty sites , ’ says naturalist David Attenborough . |
| 5 | It is shameful to suggest that Fascism is , or was , anti-Semitic . |
| 6 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 7 | I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools . |
| 8 | This is a matter which is particularly in the province of the justices who are deciding the case after hearing five days of evidence and it is impossible to suggest , in my judgment , that they were wrong in coming to the conclusion that the children ought not to be separated . |
| 9 | Although this rule could be represented and applied within a symbolic system , it is reasonable to suggest that it has been ‘ learnt ’ by the evolutionary process and is embodied in the flies ' neurophysiology . |
| 10 | Thus , it is reasonable to suggest that C49 was the only m 5 C-site which was labelled in our experiments . |
| 11 | ‘ It is ignorant to suggest that ‘ federalism ’ equals ‘ centralism ’ . |
| 12 | I do not believe that it is helpful to suggest that the problem is widespread or in any way worrying , either for the consumer or for the farming industry as a whole . |
| 13 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 14 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |
| 15 | Finally , it is misleading to suggest that these relationships between government and the various private sectors are of no concern to the local housing authorities . |
| 16 | In many respects these are deficient and could be extended and improved , but it is misleading to suggest that no incentives to good performance exist except market forces . |
| 17 | So it is misleading to suggest , as many psychologists and sociobiologists are prone to do , that these mechanisms are necessarily the prime mechanism affecting awareness and action . |
| 18 | If it is insulting to suggest to a person that he is a homosexual , is it not equally insulting to suggest to a man that he is the sort of person who might be susceptible to solicitation in the streets by women ? |
| 19 | We have had more debates on these issues , but it is insulting to suggest that our partners do not give them sufficient attention . |
| 20 | It is ridiculous to suggest that a magazine article , book or even the most expert of instructors can teach you exactly how to perform the complex set of movements involved in , say , gybing . |
| 21 | It is ridiculous to suggest otherwise . |
| 22 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 23 | It is possible to suggest that the two poets resemble one another . |
| 24 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 25 | By analysing this concept it is possible to suggest four alternative decision-making systems that vary as the level of assumptions built into the information system increases . |
| 26 | By examining the way these animals were put together it is possible to suggest a likely mode of life . |
| 27 | It is possible to suggest a number of reasons for this . |
| 28 | It is possible to suggest an implicational series , using the symbols suggested in chapter 4.5 : as the rule diffuses through the lexicon , monosyllabic T environments are the first to be affected by it , followed by monosyllabic D environments , with the polysyllables being the last to be affected . |
| 29 | From these data , it is possible to suggest a fivefold classification of the fields . |
| 30 | When the family is all together , it is wise to suggest a fair method whereby family members ( in-laws stand aside ! ) take turns to choose items great and small . |