Example sentences of "[noun] be [adj] to assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , all readers are entitled to assume that the conclusions they draw lie within a range shared by the narrator 's thoughts . |
| 2 | If the milk yield of the experimental group varies , and the variation is linked to water intake , the experimenter is entitled to assume that there is a causal link between milk yield and water intake , since there is no other difference between the two groups . |
| 3 | I think that the hon. Lady is unwise to assume that Scotland will react as she proposes , but in any event , were that unlikely event to occur , Scotland would have to reapply for membership of the European Community . |
| 4 | The Court of Appeal held that the jurisdiction clause was not binding on B. The way the documents were presented to him for signature was misleading : B was entitled to assume that the two copies of the terms were identical . |
| 5 | Crown counsel did not make any offer of the statements and in the circumstances the learned trial judge was entitled to assume that there were no discrepancies or inconsistencies therein and to refuse to order production of the statements . |
| 6 | We might therefore expect these works to conform in some way to established taste , but it does not follow , as many of Wordsworth 's later disciples were prone to assume that anything in heroic couplets is necessarily bad ; in fact , many passages from these poems compare quite favourably with Wordsworth 's eighteenth-century predecessors . |
| 7 | The creditor was entitled to assume that the advice contained in the letters would be received by each of them . |
| 8 | Evans was right to assume that the sacral horns represented bull 's horns . |