Example sentences of "it would be wrong [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be wrong to suppose that a depiction on a coin is an exact reproduction of an ancient building , as this is to misunderstand the intentions of the die engraver . |
| 2 | It would be wrong to suppose that there was no evolutionary activity among these early mammals : in fact there were considerable changes , which by the late Cretaceous had established early members of several of the principal groups of mammals which dominate the terrestrial world today . |
| 3 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 4 | It would be wrong to suppose that the Serbs bear sole responsibility for the violence . |
| 5 | But it would be wrong to suppose that the final community in such a sequence had some kind of privileged status that guaranteed its stability . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it would be wrong to suppose that all mergers were approved . |
| 7 | It would be wrong to dismiss this sort of criticism as mere sales talk , particularly in grand auctioneers ' catalogues , though there is little danger of such publications being reticent . |
| 8 | However , it would be wrong to dismiss this line of thought without further investigation . |
| 9 | But it would be wrong to dismiss the underlying aspiration of many in Northern Ireland , particularly amongst the Protestant majority , for an end to their exclusion from British political debate . |
| 10 | People who have no religious faith find this baffling , but it would be wrong to dismiss the mystics as deluded and credulous . |
| 11 | However , it would be wrong to dismiss the initiative on these grounds as primarily a money-saving device . |
| 12 | Hilary Wright feels it would be wrong to call her books ‘ Ruritanian ’ since they were authentically based . |
| 13 | Although Eisenhower chose to sum up somewhere between Humphrey and the US Joint Chiefs , with each crisis being dealt with in the light of the prevailing circumstances , he agreed that if constructive talks with the USSR seemed possible at any time , it would be wrong to disappoint public hopes of some relaxation of the Cold War . |
| 14 | It would be wrong to disregard them and they are worth some special study . |
| 15 | Of course there are weaknesses in the Treaty particularly from a U K point of view and it would be wrong to lead this union to believe otherwise . |
| 16 | Although it would be wrong to presume that teachers who are excellent in their off-site unit work with small groups of pupils could necessarily become the vanguard of a new service they can provide the focus for some initial developments . |
| 17 | Hence , in terms of what they can ‘ say ’ , it would be wrong to argue that there are distinctions between languages according to their approximation to neutral , abstract description . |
| 18 | However , it would be wrong to view assemblies as no more than talking-shops . |
| 19 | It would be wrong to pretend that in a booklet of this size , we can do any more than raise some of these issues and give an overview of the way in which the company tries to deal with them . |
| 20 | So , although it would be wrong to derive the family form directly from developments in capitalism , the new domestic ideal was not a completely autonomous development . |
| 21 | And it would be wrong to overlook the very large general encyclopedias , such as The Encyclopedia Britannica . |
| 22 | Mersenne argued that , because the structure of the solar system is only one of infinitely numerous possibilities ( and therefore ultimately dependent on the choice of the deity ) , it would be wrong to cherish a preconceived pattern . |
| 23 | We concluded that it would be wrong to pick one model as universally applicable . |
| 24 | On many a winter morning I jumped out of bed and put a letter of his in the fire , feeling it would be wrong to allow it to survive ; and when some years ago I was asked by a distinguished man of letters if I could help him to write an account of Maurice |
| 25 | For example , it would be wrong to allow a chemist to graduate without an understanding of the uses and misuses of chemicals in the modern world , both on the natural environment and on the human body ( anabolic steroids used by athletes , for instance ) . |
| 26 | It would be wrong to criticise . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be wrong to rule out military action for all time . ’ |
| 28 | It would be wrong to deduce from this conclusion that unemployment has had no effect on mobility . |
| 29 | The extent to which the medical prescriptions regarding women 's role were mediated and/or resisted by middle class women is difficult to assess , but it would be wrong to characterise women simply as victims either in their relationship with their physicians or in respect to theories of sexual difference generally . |
| 30 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |