Example sentences of "it would be foolish " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be foolish and unseemly as well as counter-productive for the Prime Minister to enter into an undignified slanging match with him every time he does so . |
| 2 | It may be ill-advised of a young woman dressed in a titillating manner to accept lifts from a stranger , just as it would be foolish for the owner of an expensive motor car to leave his vehicle parked overnight in an ill-lit side-street . |
| 3 | It would be foolish to expect too much after his experience , but there was an excitement in it , all the same . |
| 4 | Mr Rifkind believes it would be foolish to split BR by region when the present management has split it by business ; besides , the government would have to subsidise all the privatised regions , since none of them makes money . |
| 5 | McNamara told the press bluntly : ‘ It is Labour Party policy to achieve a united Ireland by consent and , therefore , it would be foolish to create a further obstacle . |
| 6 | Although Mr Taylor refused to reveal whether or not the Premier League deal is acceptable to him or his members , who yesterday gave him overwhelming support for necessary action , it would be foolish to embark on a strike now . |
| 7 | ‘ The three-month window means it would be foolish to say we can guarantee supplies can not be infected , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 8 | And so , despite the undeniably galling aspect of being asked to rejoice in so meagre a victory after decades of hammering on the hallowed portals of power , I believe it would be foolish to look this particular gift-horse in the mouth . |
| 9 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
| 10 | Mrs Shephard said the unemployment figures were ‘ a glimmer of hope ’ but added that it would be foolish to build too much into one month 's statistics . |
| 11 | However , I believe it would be foolish to allow such an assertion to remain unchallenged . |
| 12 | This is , of course , to start many hares ; while it would be foolish to try to pursue them all in any one study , the concept of a stream of work , held together by a common focus on the effects of organizational difference and permitting the exploration of particular issues as they arise , is a daunting but attractive prospect . |
| 13 | ‘ It would be foolish and dangerous for no action to be taken to combat air pollution , ’ said their Lordships , advocating that Britain should reduce sulphur dioxide emissions by 30 per cent . |
| 14 | It will be seen from the above comments that the local banks through their Trade Finance Division are in a position to offer real help — it would be foolish to ignore it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would be foolish to pretend that ‘ The Railway Age ’ was perfect . |
| 17 | Now naturally you are not going to eat like that all the time — it would be foolish and impractical . |
| 18 | It would be foolish to imagine that GIS can assist in all hazard studies , emergencies and disasters . |
| 19 | So , in social surveys the limitations can be very severe , yet it would be foolish to try to avoid them . |
| 20 | ‘ Paper ’ sources provide the researcher with a wealth of information ; it would be foolish to spend long hours mounting field surveys to collect information already obtainable from punished sources . |
| 21 | It would be foolish to pretend that the evidence in favour of enforcing trusts for performance directly is very strong . |
| 22 | Education business partnerships , though recent in their current form , have antecedents which it would be foolish to ignore . |
| 23 | For example , it would be foolish to open a DIY hypermarket in a town where 90% of inhabitants were old-age pensioners and 75% of the population lived in rented accommodation ( older people in rented housing clearly do n't carry out as many home repairs or alterations as people , say , in their 30s and 40s who own their own homes ) . |
| 24 | It would be foolish to open a DIY store in a town where 90% of the … are old-age pensioners . |
| 25 | It would be foolish to dismiss this remarkable innovation out of hand . |
| 26 | It would be foolish as well as useless , he said , to worry about how to cope with tomorrow when there is quite enough to cope with today . |
| 27 | It would be foolish to suppose that we can penetrate the causes of this striking movement with any precision ; but the example of John of Salisbury makes it abundantly clear that the love of travel , the fashion for wandering , played a major role . |
| 28 | Below- the-line activity in the US now takes 60 per cent of marketers ' expenditure , and it would be foolish to exclude the same thing happening here . |
| 29 | Equally it would be foolish to have starved yourself so that you were hungry enough to feel discomfort . |
| 30 | In the wake of the Los Angeles riots , it would be foolish to ignore Galbraith 's prescient warnings . |