Example sentences of "be perhaps ironic that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps ironic that , with such a volume of water just a few yards from the doors , it had to use steam . |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironic that today the Holstein of North America is rapidly overwhelming the dual-purpose Friesian of Europe , whatever its name . |
| 3 | It is perhaps ironic that the fish may die cured ! |
| 4 | It is perhaps ironic that the product which has seen the complete transformation in Apple Computer 's financial status is neither a computer nor a piece of software . |
| 5 | It is perhaps ironic that this tablet is one of the few on the market which can be interfaced with the Dragon computer as the company which makes it is the remnants of the firm which designed and built the Dragon . |
| 6 | It is perhaps ironic that a financier whose fortunes had foundered on the unreliability of the royal credit should have busied himself three years after his bankruptcy with devising a project for a national bank whose impracticability his own fate had spectacularly demonstrated . |
| 7 | It is perhaps ironic that , having changed my mind , I am now trying to convince other physicists that there was in fact no singularity at the beginning of the universe — as we shall see later , it can disappear once quantum effects are taken into account . |
| 8 | This will be further discussed , but it is perhaps ironic that all the distinguishing , concrete features in the landscape from this period should disappear , but that the invisible ownership element should persist . |
| 9 | It is perhaps ironic that Neal — so critical of the selections of Revie and Robson — arrives back on the England scene at a time when Taylor is coming in for internal FA criticism for picking too many players . |
| 10 | It was perhaps ironic that having decided to dedicate the rest of his career to the private sector that Cuckney became caught up in a major government row when he took over as chairman of Westland Group . |