Example sentences of "is [adv] [adv] [adj] to assume that " in BNC.

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1 It is all too easy to assume that if you improve your performance by 5% a year , you are making satisfactory progress .
2 It is all too easy to assume that formal regulation has an immediate unilinear impact , but in actuality the history of sexuality is as much a history of an avoidance of , or resistance to , the moral code , as of a simple acceptance and internalisation .
3 It is all too easy to assume that since they all offer the same types of mortgages there is little to choose between them .
4 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 .
5 In attempting to help users in searching automated catalogues , it is perhaps too easy to assume that the machine must do it all and that the burden must be removed entirely from the user .
6 Certainly it is not always correct to assume that older people are ‘ safe ’ in the hands of medical professionals .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 They accept that it is no longer plausible to assume that those operating the business have their freedom of action constrained by the competitive market or their own self-interest .
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