Example sentences of "to assume that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it would be misleading to suggest that small firms are important across all manufacturing industries , it is also incorrect to assume that small firms are confined to traditionally labour-intensive industries like textiles , clothing , furnishing or ceramics . |
| 2 | It makes sense therefore , to assume that deep tanks with a restricted surface area are going to be at a strong disadvantage from the very start . |
| 3 | The committee says it is ‘ unwilling to assume that negative mouse data necessarily outweigh the consensus of a variety of short-term tests . ’ |
| 4 | But it would be a mistake to assume that Prime Ministers are necessarily mouth-pieces of their Lord Chancellors when making the most senior appointments . |
| 5 | Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Is it not patronizing to assume that ordinary Omanis are not interested in affairs of state and to imply that all the peoples of Arabia prefer strong leaders to participatory democracy ( Country Profile NI 173 ) ? |
| 9 | It has been suggested ( White , 1978 , p. 101 ) that if we look at the delivery of key speeches in the Supreme Soviet , for example , there was no evidence that prominent groups were gaining proportionately more influence vis-a-vis the party , which may demonstrate that there is no good reason to assume that industrialized societies necessarily develop similar political characteristics . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Because we think it so characteristic of human activity , we tend to assume that tool-using behaviour must demand special , exceptional intellectual skills . |
| 12 | US intelligence assessments actually made in October 1990 , but only handed in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This is correct ; but its adherents then go on to assume that critical thinking consists of a set of intellectual skills that can be exercised by themselves . |
| 15 | Such a quantity is , in theory , well defined , but to assume that major climate regimes in the past arose from such simple forcing is unjustified . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that a fully satisfactory solution is available without the need to assume that truncated clauses lurk beneath predicate qualifiers , there would be good reasons for discounting the possibility , even if one did not initially accept the intensional pattern of ( 15 ) as valid . |
| 17 | In these circumstances it is just as reasonable to assume that political elites or administrative officials are acting autonomously as to assume that they are acting in accordance with society 's preferences . |
| 18 | Although it will not do to assume that political developments in different nation states will ever be sufficiently ‘ synchronised ’ to avoid entirely the problems of advancing the socialist project in one country , or a restricted group of countries , this consideration does point to the vital need for maximum international coordination in the pursuit of socialist objectives . |
| 19 | These surveys tended to assume that certain species were typical of a particular habitat , although there were also studies of the changing proportions of species in differing locations . |
| 20 | It would , however , be incorrect to assume that syntactic aspects of language production could only be influenced by automatic accessing of particular lexical items . |
| 21 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
| 22 | It is popular to assume that other people resist change but , of course , we are all potential resisters of change . |
| 23 | It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do . |
| 24 | We may tend to assume that other companies and cultures operate with the same sorts of motivations and criteria of success as we do , despite the fact that Japanese companies , for instance , turn in a very low rate of profit compared to those in the United Kingdom , and indeed do not need to do so because of the low interest charges and ready availability of capital in their country . |
| 25 | Likewise it would be wrong to assume that economic difficulties worked to push the gentry increasingly into the Tory camp . |
| 26 | In either event it is no longer safe to assume that non-human animals are just small versions of us , so direct extrapolations are going to be a risky business . |
| 27 | It has , however , become the habit to assume that Central Office is of little importance immediately after an election and to give the chairman 's job to some minor figure in the party , replacing him later with someone of greater stature . |
| 28 | If evolution were the unfolding of a divine plan , then there was no need to assume that human progress would come about through the summing up of individual acts of selfishness . |
| 29 | It is reasonable to assume that hormonal effects predominate in younger women , while dietary factors may become increasingly important in older women . |
| 30 | It is a common mistake to assume that oriental rugs can be identified by their designs alone . |