Example sentences of "it be a mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | But had n't it been a mistake though , he thought , was n't it more pointless than most evenings ? |
| 2 | Had n't it been a mistake to let that Benny go to Dublin on her own after all ? |
| 3 | Had it been a mistake to include them ? |
| 4 | He discovered the cigarette in his hand and examined it as if it were a mistake . |
| 5 | It 's a mistake to have a narrowly political view of the novel , as it is to regard its comedy as somehow decorative . |
| 6 | And that officer , luv , I said he was a legate from the Balearics not leg him one in the bollocks but it 's a mistake anybody could have made . |
| 7 | In so many areas the advance man ( who may or may not be the same as the event organiser ) has the on-the-spot knowledge which headquarters staff or the committee can never have — and it 's a mistake not to get the maximum use from it . |
| 8 | I think it 's a mistake to centre yourself on just one issue . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , but I 'm pretty sure it 's a mistake . |
| 10 | It 's a mistake to hide that and gloss over it . |
| 11 | It 's a mistake to hide that and gloss over it — you do n't run a £20m business on fresh air ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why 's he getting his knickers in a twist anyway if he 's so sure it 's a mistake ? ’ |
| 13 | Then , briskly , to me : ‘ I sometimes think it 's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child . |
| 14 | I would understand that , but at the same time from a personal point of view , or a museum executive point of view , I think it 's a mistake . |
| 15 | Oh well , yes , I suppose strictly speaking that is true but it 's a mistake to view a sensual pleasure as being a single datum . |
| 16 | It 's a mistake to be wearing his watch . |
| 17 | The Granny is n't really a knot — it 's a mistake because it either slips or jams . |
| 18 | As in so many other areas , it 's a mistake to see 1 April as the ‘ big bang ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a mistake to bottle things up , sweetheart , ’ he said , and the sympathy in his voice brought a lump to her throat . |
| 20 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 21 | Yes I think it 's perhaps worth making the point erm to Rosemary that although , as you say , i it 's six feet high , that it does n't spread all that wide and it 's , it 's a mistake in a small garden to think that you ca n't have things that are on the tall side . |
| 22 | Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one . |
| 23 | And I think it , it 's a mistake to see it just as a kind of erm as a little frill . |
| 24 | And this is why at a late stage in À la recherche , Marcel says that it is a mistake , particularly where the artist is concerned , to accept , and I quote , ‘ It 's a mistake to accept things as they are in reality , names as they are written , people as photography and psychology give in an unalterable idea of them . ’ |
| 25 | The protesters say they want to know more about the process , and that it 's a mistake for the government to legalize irradiation without proper research . |
| 26 | Fear that I have only dreamed of moving forward , that when I go in and face it I will see that it is a mistake , not possible , uninteresting . |
| 27 | Easton was not randomly chosen for the location of this research , but purposely selected because it is an area of Belfast where routine policing is possible as a result of the virtual absence of political violence in the locale , whether Catholic or Protestant in origin ( and , as later chapters will show , it is a mistake to see the RUC 's relationship with Catholics only as problematic ) . |
| 28 | It is a mistake to suppose that abolition of the licensing system would now mean an excessive number of houses started , or a soaring of prices , or the cessation of council house building . |
| 29 | Whatever the chancellor 's motives , it is a mistake to dismiss his budget for savers as mere window-dressing . |
| 30 | If the British were indeed talking about principles , it was a mistake ; it is a mistake to negotiate with the Chinese about generalities . |