Example sentences of "it is [adj] to assume that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 2 | It clearly works as a formula , and it is reasonable to assume that alternatives have been tested and found inferior . |
| 3 | In the case of mapping theses , it is logical to assume that researchers would be interested in adjacent areas , or in areas within the same major structural or stratigraphic units . |
| 4 | If we regard the proportions as ’ half and half ’ , it is logical to assume that households containing two or more people should pay 100 per cent. , that the occupants of a house that is empty or not their principal residence should pay 50 per cent. , and that a single occupant — being , as it were , in the middle — should pay 75 per cent . |
| 5 | This pattern of epidemics may explain the broad movement of wages in the mid fifteenth century , for the 1440s , 1450s and 1470s , when it is logical to assume that deaths were more likely to have exceeded births , were precisely those decades when wages were highest . |
| 6 | It is easy to assume that teams are ‘ a good thing ’ and therefore , in some way , essential , but experience indicates that they are only essential in certain sorts of situations . |
| 7 | But it is unwise to assume that parents will inevitably pose a problem when they are placed first . |
| 8 | Our results suggest that it is wrong to assume that patients will become unduly anxious if they are warned about most of the potential risks of surgical treatment , at least as far as inguinal herniorrhaphy and general anaesthesia are concerned . |