Example sentences of "it [is] a great mistake " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a great mistake to get yourself into a state of nervous excitement all the time … nobody should ever overdo it you know … you should read Jane Austen and then you 'll feel better . |
| 2 | You have a long , hard think about it , because it 's a great mistake to simply accept or adapt to whatever space you have , however cramped or awkward it is , without questioning whether it 's right for you . |
| 3 | That 's is the erm the real world often is very vague , and it 's a great mistake to be clear about it , but on the other hand it means something . |
| 4 | I might just say one other thing , though , that I think it 's a great mistake to see the I D S , which as I said is a national institute at Sussex , as somehow just a British institution on its own looking at these problems . |
| 5 | Clearly there must be a re-creation of many aspects of the court of Napoleon I , but it would be a great mistake to see the court of the Second Empire as a simple pastiche — just as it is a great mistake to see in Napoleon III nothing but a simulacrum of his uncle . |
| 6 | It is a great mistake : Barbara has to give up her small tress-shop and the cosy flat above where Percy liked to come round in the evenings ; while Percy , lacking that place of resort , now leaves her alone and goes out to play billiards . |
| 7 | It is a great mistake to suppose that a solicitor can get along without having mastered the legal topics with which he is called upon to deal . |