Example sentences of "would be [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be prudent to assume that the GRU , in collaboration with its clients , is effective at identifying needs and diverting what it purloins to the right places . |
| 2 | It would be mischievous to suggest that the opponents no longer see safety as a problem , but it does seem to have receded from the foreground , despite the fact that — or could it be because ? — there was a serious nuclear accident in the US , in a PWR very different from that designed for Sizewell . |
| 3 | It would be mischievous to suggest that pupils who pay attention to the teacher 's traditional emphases in primary mathematics give themselves a positive disadvantage for future success in mathematics , but the evidence seems to point in this direction . |
| 4 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 5 | It would be absurd to say that they have become one . |
| 6 | It would be absurd to claim that this day is already near . |
| 7 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 8 | There is nothing to suggest any direct seigneurial interest in the plot or characters of the tale ; although the comedy of Dame Sirith does at least assume knowledge and recognition of the conventions of chivalric behaviour , it would be absurd to suggest that knowledge of such conventions was socially limited in any significant way in the later thirteenth century . |
| 9 | For the purposes of sensationalism and drama it would be pleasant to report that he burst in with a look of alarm and a shout of excitement , or some fancy combination of both . |
| 10 | It would be pleasant to use that soap every day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I would be delighted to think that it might be . ’ |
| 13 | You have a reputation of not letting go of a thing once you have started and you would be delighted to discover that I am responsible for Ana 's blindness . |
| 14 | It would be arrogant to suggest that the West no longer tells the story , but I think that it is not untrue to say that the Devil is not as central to that story as he was . |
| 15 | It would be smug to imagine that all such violence is across the Atlantic . |
| 16 | It would be impertinent to say that to N C V er , to I B M , but it might be appropriate to say it to some of the less enlightened firms , or , should John be taking a similar line , in other words , how interventionist would you like either government or N C V O speaking on behalf of the vol voluntary sector to be , in pressing the business sector to have an overall and agreed strategy rather than the individual and enlightened strategy you put forward . |
| 17 | It would be impertinent to suggest that Keynes dichotomised his private and professional life and in this sense discretionary monetary policy and deficit spending by government although recommended as a technical solution to a technical problem , must be seen as the prescriptions of a self-confessed immoralist . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Pressing , as her distresses are , if I did not think her heart was rightly turned , I should be afraid of proposing such a measure , lest it should unsettle the sobriety of her mind , and , by exciting her vanity , indispose her for the laborious employments of her humble condition ; but it would be cruel to imagine that we can not mend her fortune without impairing her virtue . |
| 20 | Items of particular relevance to futures trading are as follows : ( 1 ) A statement of the customer 's investment objectives ( unless included in a separate document ) : If futures trading is to be undertaken otherwise than for purely hedging purposes , it would be necessary to document that the customer 's investment objectives were speculative . |
| 21 | ‘ There is obviously going to be displacement of people as specialist sites are concentrated , ’ says Ms Brown , adding that it would be necessary to ensure that the right amount of nursing support and training is available as the displacement of nurses takes place . |
| 22 | But it would be necessary to ensure that the learning which resulted in respect of such content was accepted by students as worth the processing effort . |
| 23 | Where information is presented in the notes to the financial statements rather than on the face of the balance sheet , it would be necessary to ensure that the caption on the face of the balance sheet indicates that the balance sheet total includes non-equity interests or convertible debt . |
| 24 | But for self -consciousness to get a foothold it would be necessary to establish that they were aware of recognising themselves ; which is awareness of a different order . |
| 25 | Since the agreements were contracts made under domestic law , it would be necessary to establish that they were internationalised contracts with international law as the proper law of the contract for their violation to amount to an international wrong . |
| 26 | To demonstrate a sensitive period of the type he was proposing , it would be necessary to show that adults who had left a kibbutz at the age of six were not sexually attracted by members of the opposite sex whom they had been reared with while still in the kibbutz . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |