Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] assume that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been so easy to assume that the Tarvarians were human because they acted like men . |
| 2 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 3 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 4 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 5 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 6 | If the young adult dog or puppy sees the owner run screaming to the house in terror , it is not unreasonable to assume that the dog will quickly follow . |
| 7 | Although I agree that ‘ it is always dangerous to assume that the causes of emotional disturbances lie more in the past than the present , ’ I also know that families , like individuals , in Western societies have histories , and that no two families , happy or unhappy , develop in exactly the same way . |
| 8 | Since we are quite different in our behavioural capacities , notably in our possessing language , this may reflect a lack of subtlety on the part of the anatomists but it is probably reasonable to assume that the input and output ends of the system are pretty much the same in monkeys as in people . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments . |
| 10 | It is also premature to assume that the single European market means that rival continental financial centres will deliberately keep regulatory standards below London 's . |
| 11 | It is n't safe to assume that the normal functions of a system are equivalent to what is lost after a lesion because the effects of a lesion may be masked by positive symptoms . |
| 12 | None of the six we tested included an invoice for the sample , nor have any , at the time of writing , sent one on later so it 's pretty safe to assume that the trial was free . |
| 13 | It was far easier to assume that the islands had been stocked by the accidental transportation of small numbers of individuals from the mainland , after which each population had simply adapted to its new environment in a different way . |