Example sentences of "it would be [noun] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course it would be meanness to pop your neighbour 's through the letter box , so it must be sent by mail . |
| 2 | Little by little , however , MacDonald and his closest colleagues became convinced that if they were given the opportunity to form a Government it would be folly to turn it down . |
| 3 | It would be folly to replace him with the inexperienced Mr Kinnock . |
| 4 | It would be folly to raise his hopes just when the loss of the letters had effectively dashed them . |
| 5 | In half an hour it would be time to take her loaves out of the oven : the only drawback to her new business was that it meant getting up early every single morning of the year . |
| 6 | It would be madness to throw it all away for a few moments of nerve-storming passion . |