Example sentences of "be [adj] to assume that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-five years ago , during a period of full employment , employers may sometimes have been right to assume that those who were unemployed or redundant were less effective than those who held down a job . |
| 2 | It would be unrealistic to assume that any assessment process based solely on one assessor 's judgement of another 's competence would always be regarded as completely valid and reliable . |
| 3 | In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school . |
| 4 | Likewise it would be wrong to assume that economic difficulties worked to push the gentry increasingly into the Tory camp . |
| 5 | One is that it would be wrong to assume that all or even most judges have viewed the distinction in a purely instrumental fashion . |
| 6 | Family construct theory suggests that it would even be wrong to assume that such ‘ good ’ family relationships are wanted by some families which actually rely upon ‘ bad ’ family relationships . |
| 7 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 8 | The form of ‘ unofficial ’ war which they fought was more characteristic of brigandage and open robbery , but it would be wrong to assume that those who constituted the Companies were all , of necessity , men of criminal background or low degree . |
| 9 | It would be dangerous to assume that this balance of topics necessarily reflects the Authority 's PNP priorities very accurately . |
| 10 | ‘ On the other hand , ’ Doctor Staples said , ‘ it would be unscientific to assume that this had anything to do with his lung collapse . |
| 11 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 12 | Perhaps it would be reasonable to assume that 550 deaths are caused in England , Wales and Scotland every year by drunken driving . |
| 13 | This is somewhat surprising , since it would be reasonable to assume that domain-specific dictionaries would contain the most appropriate collocations for domain-specific documents . |
| 14 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 15 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 16 | Allowing for a certain amount of exaggeration , it would be reasonable to assume that most of the wealthy landowners and business men would have suffered in this ruthless purge . |
| 17 | It would , however , be incorrect to assume that syntactic aspects of language production could only be influenced by automatic accessing of particular lexical items . |
| 18 | In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is unrealistic to assume that all the Palestinians currently living in the Arab states , whether still in refugee camps or integrated into their host society , could or would want to return to a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state . ’ |
| 22 | It is popular to assume that other people resist change but , of course , we are all potential resisters of change . |
| 23 | It is easy to assume that such skills will be picked up incidentally , as they will usually be by fully sighted children , who often copy what they see other children doing , especially if a teacher 's directions are unclear to them . |
| 24 | from such a simple diagram it is easy to assume that all the thinking is done in terms of functions . |
| 25 | It is easy to assume that any significant , gender-linked difference should be attributed to the general operation of gender roles . |
| 26 | Therefore it is easy to assume that this must be a deliberate , callous attempt to inflict hurt . |
| 27 | It is reasonable to assume that all such figures underestimate the real activities of the elderly . |
| 28 | It is reasonable to assume that ancient people were sensitive to the reality of these other levels of existence , living their lives accordingly , and it may be that we should look to this awareness as the origin of much folklore . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It is reasonable to assume that such changes have significant social and economic effects , yet they have been conspicuously neglected by social scientists . |