Example sentences of "[adj] to assume that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the lender under such an instrument had the right to require early redemption , but on exercise of that right he would receive only the original issue price , it would be unrealistic to assume that he would exercise it unless the issuer 's creditworthiness deteriorated to a significant extent . |
| 2 | If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) . |
| 3 | It 's dangerous to assume that he 's necessarily working in his own territory . |
| 4 | Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 5 | ‘ Each of these immunities is of great importance , but the fact that they are all important and that they are all concerned with the protection of citizens against the abuse of powers by those investigating crimes makes it easy to assume that they are all different ways of expressing the same principle , whereas in fact they are not . |
| 6 | If one finds , as one sometimes does , that an Act contains a provision that does not make sense , it is only too easy to assume that it is the draftsman who has made an error . |
| 7 | That the arbitrageur can lend money at the riskless rate of interest appears sensible , but it is more questionable to assume that he or she can borrow at the riskless rate ( although if the marginal arbitrageur is a large financial institution , the assumption may be reasonable ) . |
| 8 | The less skilled are more likely to assume that they understand the other person 's point of view and that the other person has the same basic information . |
| 9 | But it is charitable to assume that it has something to do with the kind of critic that Pound is . |
| 10 | While it is undeniable that that system has had a dramatic effect of the development of the market it is incorrect to assume that it is the only one which is influencing it . |
| 11 | It is therefore reasonable to assume that they could undertake the order without incurring any further wage costs , so the relevant cost is nil . |
| 12 | In whichever way the results of an assessment are communicated , it is reasonable to assume that they may have important implications for the way in which the child is dealt with in the future . |
| 13 | Although there is no precise information about the provenance of all of these finds , it is reasonable to assume that they came from the original excavation of the ‘ villa ’ or from adjacent sites . |
| 14 | However , it is reasonable to assume that they will , initially at least , be relatively inexpensive , and , due to the increasing scarcity of genuine nomadic and tribal weaving , may well become more collectable in the future . |
| 15 | When a Government have a serious problem that has lasted 22 years , cost billions of pounds in security and military provisions and caused immeasurable suffering to some people , it is reasonable to assume that they have a long-term policy for creating lasting peace and ending the waste . |
| 16 | There are no studies of the psychological state of IBS patients seen in primary care , but it is reasonable to assume that they represent an intermediate population . |
| 17 | Therefore , if you are confronted with a rug decorated in an intricate and curvilinear floral-inspired scheme , it is reasonable to assume that it probably originates from a workshop group in one of the limited number of countries which specialize in these designs . |
| 18 | If a variable measured in the course of an experiment settles down with time , to a constant , or a maintained oscillation , it seems reasonable to assume that it is approaching some stable , maintained course that corresponds to an equilibrium or periodic solution |
| 19 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 20 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 21 | It also seems reasonable to assume that you , the reader , apart from making sense of it , could , if asked , give a large amount of information about it which is not explicitly expressed in it . |
| 22 | Sybil also heard Angy giving Delia her address so it 's reasonable to assume that she was expecting a visit from her some time . |
| 23 | If societies ‘ need ’ crime then it is logical to assume that they will ensure that there will be crime . |
| 24 | As the brain was a machine for processing information , what more logical to assume that it did so by utilizing in some very special way these informational macromolecules . |
| 25 | Jean or Jeannie Symonds was still working in Skinners in 1913 , left the trade for a few years but was readmitted in 1927 , so it seems safe to assume that she spent much of her working life in the printing trade and did not marry . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In other studies , investigators have often been able to assume that they know the lexical input to commonly occurring vowel variables such as ( e ) and ( a ) and also that all the lexical items counted have the much the same potential for variation ( that is , the direction of variation will be consistent throughout ) . |
| 29 | I ca n't imagine that George is gon na continuing doing that forever and it may well be that we 'll be faced with a possibility of , of what we do in the future to have that piece of administration done will we be able to assume that it could done voluntary in the future ? |
| 30 | Yet it would be anachronistic to assume that they had surrendered their rights in anticipation of Marxist theories about the superiority of the all-Russian market , or that they felt a particular brotherly love towards the Great Russian folk . |