Example sentences of "be [adj] to assume that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point it would have been reasonable to assume that Durham SC were staging a convention for knee and ankle supports as nearly 80 combatants rolled up for battle . |
| 2 | " Clearly it would be rash to assume that Shakespeare knew of this earlier version . " |
| 3 | It would be wrong to assume that Elizabeth 's reign was one of perfect happiness and freedom , or that the contrast between her real physical state and her royal image was not sometimes ridiculous . |
| 4 | It would be wrong to assume that trade unions have had no effect on these matters . |
| 5 | As with all the social services , it would be foolish to assume that executors of policy on the ground are always the obedient poodles of those who think up grand designs . |
| 6 | ‘ It might be reasonable to assume that Mr Goodhaven did n't set the trap himself , to persuade me of his innocence , ’ he said , writing ‘ Henry Goodhaven ’ on the list . |
| 7 | But it would be hazardous to assume that prominence and deviance are simply subjective and objective aspects of the same phenomenon . |
| 8 | Our results suggest that it is wrong to assume that patients will become unduly anxious if they are warned about most of the potential risks of surgical treatment , at least as far as inguinal herniorrhaphy and general anaesthesia are concerned . |
| 9 | Self also believes it is wrong to assume that bureau chiefs generally control a monopoly . |
| 10 | It is easy to assume that teams are ‘ a good thing ’ and therefore , in some way , essential , but experience indicates that they are only essential in certain sorts of situations . |
| 11 | It is easy to assume that people were therefore pursuing their own interests , were unprincipled when they went about their politicking . |
| 12 | As the objectives for online orientation are so similar for both end-users and intermediaries , it is reasonable to assume that orientation programmes can be produced which can be useful in the teaching of both groups . |
| 13 | If a minister clearly states the effect of a provision and there is no subsequent relevant amendment to the Bill or withdrawal of the statement it is reasonable to assume that Parliament passed the Bill on the basis that the provision would have the effect stated . |
| 14 | Since it was undisputedly colonized by the Vikings , it is reasonable to assume that Baldersdale experienced a long and vivid history . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | David Hartley ( 1705–57 ) was a disciple of Locke , and it is reasonable to assume that Wordsworth , like Coleridge , had read his work while studying at Cambridge , or just afterwards . |
| 17 | It is reasonable to assume that variable overheads will only accrue if hours are worked rather than idle . |
| 18 | It clearly works as a formula , and it is reasonable to assume that alternatives have been tested and found inferior . |
| 19 | In the case of mapping theses , it is logical to assume that researchers would be interested in adjacent areas , or in areas within the same major structural or stratigraphic units . |
| 20 | This pattern of epidemics may explain the broad movement of wages in the mid fifteenth century , for the 1440s , 1450s and 1470s , when it is logical to assume that deaths were more likely to have exceeded births , were precisely those decades when wages were highest . |
| 21 | Where opportunities for controlling situations and events in a more organized sense are constricted as in the case of women at home — it is logical to assume that power to exert control through gossip becomes relatively more important . |
| 22 | If we regard the proportions as ’ half and half ’ , it is logical to assume that households containing two or more people should pay 100 per cent. , that the occupants of a house that is empty or not their principal residence should pay 50 per cent. , and that a single occupant — being , as it were , in the middle — should pay 75 per cent . |
| 23 | When he announces his side tonight following training , it is safe to assume that McGrath will include perhaps as many as thirteen of the players who won the All That 's the kind of experience they will take into the match — and perhaps may yet parade in the Ulster final . |
| 24 | If the pond level only drops during periods of hot weather it is safe to assume that evaporation is the cause . |
| 25 | But it is unwise to assume that parents will inevitably pose a problem when they are placed first . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | One is inclined to assume that Woosnam had laid a false trail . |
| 29 | The judges ' function is also to do justice in accordance with certain settled principles of law in a free society ; and they are entitled to assume that Parliament does not intend to subvert these principles , unless there is a clear statement that it does . |
| 30 | Since it was to act against hope , it was wrong to assume that defeat was an explicit sign of divine condemnation of a cause from which there could be no recovery . |