Example sentences of "it be [adj] to assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users often report experiencing the sort of twisted non-Euclidian dimensions associated with the Old Ones , so it 's reasonable to assume that this is how Mait made contact with them , or with whatever race memory remains of them , which amounts to the same thing . ’ |
| 2 | He showed particular interest in that subsidence , it 's reasonable to assume that his object was to return to it at a time when there would be no one around to interfere with him . |
| 3 | Sybil also heard Angy giving Delia her address so it 's reasonable to assume that she was expecting a visit from her some time . |
| 4 | It 's dangerous to assume that he 's necessarily working in his own territory . |
| 5 | The smell of a dead coral is not easily forgotten — if your leather coral 's odour makes you fee nauseous it 's safe to assume that it has departed this life , and to throw it out . |
| 6 | The Windows for Workgroups beta included software to permit a DOS machine to hook up to a Windows for Workgroups network , although only as a client , so it 's safe to assume that the same Workgroup Connection software will find its way into version 6 . |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't show much sign of injury , ’ he said , ‘ but as it was on the side of the road I think it 's safe to assume it 's just one more traffic casualty . ’ |
| 8 | Now , assuming they 're true , Blufton is hardly going to shop a drug smuggling ring he 's in on , so it 's safe to assume Nicola had another source of information . |
| 9 | It 's wrong to assume that just because a cream says it contains plant extracts it 's better for your skin . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's naive to assume that every housewife can afford to go organic overnight , ’ adds Jean Boht . |
| 11 | You ca n't go back and it 's natural to assume that your relationship has changed invariably for the worse . |
| 12 | If the response is , ‘ Oh , no it 's alright , do n't bother ’ — it 's fair to assume you ca n't count on his vote . |
| 13 | Mossad is different , but it 's fair to assume that if it has n't been able to put someone into Iraq to kill Saddam , then it 's next to impossible to do so . |
| 14 | In fact , it is unsafe to assume that the intensity of direct competition between males should necessarily be reduced in monogamous species . |
| 15 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 16 | As the penalty for making a mistake could be quite high , it is prudent to assume that more forms part of the character than does not . |
| 17 | It is necessary to assume , for instance , that the complete absence of an event can function as a US ; that some mechanism exists whereby whatever association is formed during conditioning brings about a reduction in the magnitude of the unconditioned response ( i.e. the attentional response ) initially evoked by the stimulus that is trained as the CS . |
| 18 | But in this cases it is necessary to assume the opposite in order to explain the results — to assume that what is learned during pre-exposure interferes less after 21 days than after one day . |
| 19 | Places are determined in relation to entities , which means that if places are to perform their individuative function , it is necessary to assume the numerical uniqueness of the entities that act as our frame of reference , and so once again we seem to be caught in a circular argument . |
| 20 | It is necessary to assume that , once a logogen has reached threshold , its activation level must decay away rapidly . |
| 21 | Of course , it is necessary to assume that the questions , however they are phrased , are understood in the same way by all respondents whatever differences they may have in other respects , such as level of education or gender . |
| 22 | Clearly it is unreasonable to assume that being one standard deviation above the mean in terms of any indicator corresponds to the same amount of deprivation . |
| 23 | However , it is simplistic to assume all readmissions are indicative of poor patient care as some readmissions are planned . |
| 24 | When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to . |
| 25 | It is usual to assume that the pupils will be able to use close-range materials on the desk or table in front of them , and then look up to the blackboard , perhaps to copy notes or diagrams displayed there , then quickly refocus on to their desk work . |
| 26 | To simplify the dynamics of the model , it is usual to assume that the market situation in each period is the same : the same population of firms faces the same market demand with the same cost conditions in each period . |
| 27 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 28 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 29 | Given that the re-editing of the film reduced the number of title cards from 300 to 80 , it is reasonable to assume that Woolf 's intervention considerably improved the film , and that Woolf 's commercial experience provided a valuable lesson both for Hitchcock and Balcon . |
| 30 | But it is reasonable to assume that Eastern Europe is still considerably better off than Brazil , which in early 1990 was reported to be $6 billion in arrears on its $115 billion debt and facing the prospect of 2200 per cent inflation during the year . |