Example sentences of "is [adv] [adj] to assume that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |