Example sentences of "it [is] [adj] suggest [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ridiculous to suggest that this or any other police force ignores bomb warnings.The IRA 's claim that a warning was given in this case is just not true . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's unfair to suggest that nature conservation is always about fencing off pretty sites , ’ says naturalist David Attenborough . |
| 3 | It is shameful to suggest that Fascism is , or was , anti-Semitic . |
| 4 | Elsewhere , I have elaborated at length on the reasons why it is implausible to suggest that the first hunters were the ruling males of what Freud termed the ‘ primal hordes ’ , but rather the unmated , younger males of the all-male groups , Freud 's ‘ sons ’ . |
| 5 | I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools . |
| 6 | Although this rule could be represented and applied within a symbolic system , it is reasonable to suggest that it has been ‘ learnt ’ by the evolutionary process and is embodied in the flies ' neurophysiology . |
| 7 | Thus , it is reasonable to suggest that C49 was the only m 5 C-site which was labelled in our experiments . |
| 8 | ‘ It is ignorant to suggest that ‘ federalism ’ equals ‘ centralism ’ . |
| 9 | I do not believe that it is helpful to suggest that the problem is widespread or in any way worrying , either for the consumer or for the farming industry as a whole . |
| 10 | Yet it is misleading to suggest that this means that legal authority depends on nothing more than the testator 's intention , whatever it may be . |
| 11 | Only this : it is misleading to suggest that a socialist alternative qualitatively different from the actual record of 1964–70 existed in potentia and merely went by default , on account of a failure of political will . |
| 12 | Finally , it is misleading to suggest that these relationships between government and the various private sectors are of no concern to the local housing authorities . |
| 13 | In many respects these are deficient and could be extended and improved , but it is misleading to suggest that no incentives to good performance exist except market forces . |
| 14 | We have had more debates on these issues , but it is insulting to suggest that our partners do not give them sufficient attention . |
| 15 | It is ridiculous to suggest that a magazine article , book or even the most expert of instructors can teach you exactly how to perform the complex set of movements involved in , say , gybing . |
| 16 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 17 | It is possible to suggest that the two poets resemble one another . |
| 18 | As a result of this all pervading desire for reticence it is possible to suggest that the presentation of research papers in seminars , the creation of an undirected thesis , not to mention the production of a book , could easily have placed me in breach of Regulation 6 , which outlines the disciplinary offence of |
| 19 | I do not think that it is fanciful to suggest that public confidence in the administration of justice is undermined by such assertions from a powerful interest group . |
| 20 | And it is fanciful to suggest that an order on Mr. Tully to say whether he has received Abbey 's money and if so what has happened to that money could result in his ill-treatment or in a dubious confession . |
| 21 | I reject the argument put forward both by Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson that the Bank of England will suffer no ‘ inconvenience ’ if they have to apply to vary an injunction before they can set the section 39 process in motion ; in most cases they will probably not even know of the existence of an injunction until after the notice is served ; and it is idle to suggest that , once this present case is decided , no similar points to those taken here by the plaintiffs will be raised in future . |
| 22 | Although innovative schemes have made it possible to maintain at home people with disabilities that were once thought to require hospital or residential care , it is unrealistic to suggest that institutional care could be entirely dispensed with . |
| 23 | It is tempting to suggest that the same kind of jigsaw process will explain the shape of an elephant , but almost certainly it is not true . |
| 24 | The dinosaurs took over instead ; and it is tempting to suggest that the mammals failed to seize their chance precisely because the dinosaurs beat them to it : in the first encounter , if such it was , the dinosaurs won . |
| 25 | It is tempting to suggest that the public conception came from memory and the private metaphors from their inner worlds of inner objects , but to draw such a fine distinction would be to go beyond the evidence I have . |
| 26 | Although it is tempting to suggest that analogous neurons are involved in the orientation discrimination of bees , this temptation should be resisted — at least for the time being . |
| 27 | If these ideas are taken together , and if three centuries of physics and chemistry are taken as the model to emulate , it is tempting to suggest that it really does not matter what the actors on the international scene have in their minds . |
| 28 | Since all the preferred cleavage sites contain a guanine base it is tempting to suggest that the specificity arises from the formation of hydrogen bonds to this base , possibly involving the 2-amino group [ 13 ] . |
| 29 | And you know it is wrong to suggest that I 've any motives in that quarter because , between you and me , I ca n't stand the man . |
| 30 | It is wrong to suggest that , because the Serbs have made ethnic expansion work , the same phenomenon will instantly break out in many other places . |