Example sentences of "[adv] it would [be] [adj] to assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it would be reasonable to assume that 550 deaths are caused in England , Wales and Scotland every year by drunken driving . |
| 2 | If every company conducted the same business , were of the same size , even had the same plans for expansion — then perhaps it would be safe to assume that their asset financing requirements , too , would be the same . |
| 3 | So it would be reasonable to assume the thing could run standalone . |
| 4 | " Clearly it would be rash to assume that Shakespeare knew of this earlier version . " |
| 5 | Here it would be tempting to assume , whether modestly or angrily , that there is another group of readers — the sophisticated , the expert , the professional , for whom such problems simply do n't exist , or have long since been left behind . |
| 6 | If it can be shown that most children recorded as unoccupied in the census also had economically inactive lone mothers then it would be reasonable to assume that the concerns about numerator-denominator bias expressed by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys may be exaggerated . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Likewise it would be wrong to assume that economic difficulties worked to push the gentry increasingly into the Tory camp . |