Example sentences of "would be [adj] [to-vb] that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near . |
| 2 | It would be pleasant to think that this decision was made purely on conservation and environmental grounds , but on all the evidence of the past this seems unlikely . |
| 3 | It would be smug to imagine that all such violence is across the Atlantic . |
| 4 | The owners might have claimed damages in arbitration against the yard with all the inherent unavoidable uncertainties of litigation , but in view of the position of the owners vis-d-vis their relations with Shell it would be unreasonable to hold that this is the course they should have taken : see Astley v. Reynolds ( 1731 ) 2 Str. 915 . |
| 5 | It would be nice to think that all this is true . |
| 6 | It would be nice to think that these incidents are isolated but they are not . |
| 7 | TODAY being Armistice Day , it would be nice to think that this afternoon 's League programme can be completed without the police having to separate fighting footballers . |
| 8 | It would be nice to think that this presentation is the end of it and that the client says " Go ahead " , and the agency produces the campaign . |
| 9 | It would be nice to think that this is allowed , that children are allowed to play out their fears and their feelings erm but I do believe it 's when they 're young that we need to start building up this self esteem and , you know , giving them permission if you like to talk quite comfortably about emotions . |
| 10 | It would be possible to acknowledge that this type of emotional layer exists in human beings , and that it finds expression in the brutality men are capable of inflicting on one another . |
| 11 | It would be easy to say that this volume is just another book ’ on organic synthesis — one which will sit alongside the excellent texts of S. Warren , and the more recent book by E. J. Corey and X. M. Cheng , The logic of chemical synthesis . |
| 12 | It would be easy to believe that both churches were imposed on the French as a punishment . |
| 13 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 14 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 15 | Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration , it would be reasonable to assume that most of the wealthy landowners and business men would have suffered in this ruthless purge . |
| 16 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Doctor Staples said , ‘ it would be unscientific to assume that this had anything to do with his lung collapse . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It would be dangerous to assume that this balance of topics necessarily reflects the Authority 's PNP priorities very accurately . |
| 19 | However , it would be fair to conclude that neither of these studies has shown the NYSE to be less than semi-strong efficient . |
| 20 | It would be fair to say that these tests are as details , if not more so , than those for human food . |
| 21 | They would be amazed to hear that most experts think Sam is the one getting the good start — while Emma is the one at risk because she may not be ready to tackle the things a rising five-year old can . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It would be unrealistic to assume that any assessment process based solely on one assessor 's judgement of another 's competence would always be regarded as completely valid and reliable . |
| 24 | Although monitored allocations of the kind suggested above are the only way to ensure that library policy is translated into practice , it would be unrealistic to believe that all authorities manage their budgets in this way . |
| 25 | In fact it would be true to say that many of us spend most of our lives being carried around . |
| 26 | In general , it would be true to say that most authors , once they have published their major research findings , feel no need to cite the ‘ raw ’ thesis upon which their initial publications are based . |
| 27 | It would be foolish to believe that any group of people can interact without a political undercurrent . |
| 28 | Of course , it would be naive to claim that all gifts are made with no thought of any benefit that might accrue to the individual or his or her family at some future time , or to deny that gifts are often a reflection of gratitude for past services rendered to a member of the family or the donor him or herself . |
| 29 | ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Therefore , either the acoustic-phonetic component must reduce the phoneme graph depth further while still guaranteeing the inclusion of the target phoneme in all successive vertical slots in the graph — but it would be optimistic to suggest that this will be possible in the foreseeable future — or else , lexical and post-lexical processing must be enriched to constrain further the alternative number of derived word strings . |