Example sentences of "it is [adv] safe assume " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , people vary in their tolerance from day to day , and it is not safe to assume that because you have been to 15,000 feet or so without oxygen before , you will be able to do it again .
2 The example of the Delphic treasuries shows that it is not safe to assume that it is actually earlier in date , but it probably is so .
3 The magnitudes of dipole moment derivatives vary widely , and it is not safe to assume from the failure to observe a band that the corresponding mode is symmetry-forbidden .
4 For practical purposes it is probably safe to assume something like a 50/50 split and this is probably putting inherited factors too high .
5 It is n't safe to assume that the normal functions of a system are equivalent to what is lost after a lesion because the effects of a lesion may be masked by positive symptoms .
6 It is always safer to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem . ’
7 So it is fairly safe to assume that assistance from Western sources , official and private , will flow to the East in a crusade against the poverty and pollution caused by seventy years of ideological perversity .
8 In fact , it is fairly safe to assume that all proper names started their denotative careers as descriptions of one sort or another , although in many cases the link with the original descriptive content subsequently became severed or obscured .
9 Despite the tables being somewhat dated , it is fairly safe to assume that in the case of Scotch Whisky production , the coefficients will not have changed significantly in the interim period .
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