Example sentences of "it would be [adj] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say ‘ borrowed ’ because it would be impolite to suggest that anyone might have stolen them . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It would be dishonest to pretend that the NSPCC is making any significant impact on the problem — even they would not claim it . ’ |
| 3 | It would be pretentious to suggest that librarians can overturn the practice of censorship in non-democratic states , yet that is no reason for inaction . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 5 | However it would be correct to say that the application of natural justice was at a low ebb prior to the decision of the House of Lords in Ridge v. Baldwin . |
| 6 | It would be foolhardy to believe that the Soviet case is unique . |
| 7 | It is true to say that the ‘ reforms ’ have been taking place along several different tracks at the same time , and it would be simplistic to suppose that the single element called ‘ case management ’ could or should be expected to ‘ make the difference ’ in isolation from other aspects of the reforms . |
| 8 | However , it would be simplistic to conclude that the two Mcs ( McLuhan and McDonald 's ) have succeeded in shaping the global village in the form of a fast food outlet or that the ‘ real ’ world is in the process of being reconstructed as a universal theme park along the lines of Disneyland . |
| 9 | It would be rash to conclude that interviews have no role to play in evaluation . |
| 10 | It would be rash to state that people never misbehaved themselves sexually . |
| 11 | " Clearly it would be rash to assume that Shakespeare knew of this earlier version . " |
| 12 | At the same time , if by a failure to take a decisive stand Kirkton should be defeated , it would be easy to describe that as a defeat for the Montrose interest to which Kirkton had long been attached . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It would be easy to say that woman is a lesbian and then forget the personality . |
| 15 | It would be easy to believe that both churches were imposed on the French as a punishment . |
| 16 | If elected local authorities are fit to draw up development plans and to judge the vast majority of planning applications , it would be odd to say that they were not fit to judge their own development proposals . |
| 17 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Doctor Staples said , ‘ it would be unscientific to assume that this had anything to do with his lung collapse . |
| 18 | It would be smug to imagine that all such violence is across the Atlantic . |
| 19 | Yet it would be anachronistic to assume that they had surrendered their rights in anticipation of Marxist theories about the superiority of the all-Russian market , or that they felt a particular brotherly love towards the Great Russian folk . |
| 20 | The director of the zoo , David Jones , believes that " it would be dangerous to conjecture that it is BSE at this stage , but the indications are that it probably is . " |
| 21 | But the overwhelming size of the response to an initiative like ‘ Childline ’ indicates that it would be dangerous to conclude that young people do not have problems even if first attempts to tap them fail . |
| 22 | However enjoyable it was , it would be dangerous to assume that yesterday 's party can continue . |
| 23 | It would be dangerous to assume that this balance of topics necessarily reflects the Authority 's PNP priorities very accurately . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It would be encouraging to believe that he was capable of listening as well as jeering . |
| 26 | For example , if there is a simple contract for the sale of a chattel it would be impractical to say that the restraint of trade doctrine applied . |
| 27 | While the combined effect of a number of cases had been to limit the audi alteram partem principle , it would be misleading to say that it had been wholly forgotten . |
| 28 | Although the arrangement of statements of attainment into levels is implicitly a model of learning , it would be misleading to argue that developing this model was TGAT 's principal interest . |
| 29 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 30 | Whilst we stress the artificial nature of most time-cues , it would be misleading to suggest that natural light is without effect . |