Example sentences of "[adj] to assume that [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is unrealistic to assume that a junior will confide in you unless you are prepared to confide in him or her . |
| 2 | The collection at Woodstock has goodness knows how many silk wedding dresses , but it would be wrong to assume that every Victorian woman went round dressed in a white silk wedding dress , because they did n't . |
| 3 | It would be wrong to assume that the divisions in the Tory Party , which became so evident after Mrs Thatcher was dumped , have been healed . |
| 4 | Yet even if there were short-term cause to rejoice , the mandarins would be wrong to assume that the most effective way out of Japan 's current problems — slow growth , asset-price deflation and a troubled financial sector — is to indulge their strongest instinct : to re-regulate everything . |
| 5 | While not necessarily accepting the fatalism of this argument , it would be wrong to assume that the balance of power between the sexes can be changed simply by persuading more girls to take ‘ boys ’ subjects ' : the issue is clearly too complex to justify simplistic remedies . |
| 6 | However , it would be wrong to assume that the future will be dominated by a material , objectified consciousness . |
| 7 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 8 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 9 | ‘ It is wrong to assume that the woman must show signs of injury or that she must always physically resist before there can be a conviction for rape . |
| 10 | First , he is wrong to assume that the policy to which he refers is espoused only by the Government : until now , there has been a bipartisan commitment to ensuring that mentally ill people receive care and facilities that are properly attuned to their needs . |
| 11 | The elaboration and detail of the scheme and the variety of techniques available under it to protect investors suggests that it would be wrong to assume that the statute and its rulemaking powers should be interpreted as being in the shadow of the common law . |
| 12 | But Infas chief pollster Hans-Juergen Hoffmann said it was wrong to assume that the sudden explosion in neo-Nazi violence meant Germans as a whole were reverting to past attitudes . |
| 13 | It was far easier to assume that the islands had been stocked by the accidental transportation of small numbers of individuals from the mainland , after which each population had simply adapted to its new environment in a different way . |
| 14 | In fact , it is unsafe to assume that the intensity of direct competition between males should necessarily be reduced in monogamous species . |
| 15 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 16 | For example , it would n't stretch the truth too much to assume that the organization of the visual system is the same in rhesus monkeys as it is in humans . |
| 17 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had been so easy to assume that the Tarvarians were human because they acted like men . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 22 | It is usual to assume that the pupils will be able to use close-range materials on the desk or table in front of them , and then look up to the blackboard , perhaps to copy notes or diagrams displayed there , then quickly refocus on to their desk work . |
| 23 | To simplify the dynamics of the model , it is usual to assume that the market situation in each period is the same : the same population of firms faces the same market demand with the same cost conditions in each period . |
| 24 | Evans was right to assume that the sacral horns represented bull 's horns . |
| 25 | This often provides the excuse for ageism , it being simpler to assume that the problem is old age rather than a treatable condition . |
| 26 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's naive to assume that every housewife can afford to go organic overnight , ’ adds Jean Boht . |
| 28 | It is naive to assume that the existence of city technology colleges or grant maintained schools will act as a stimulus to the rest . |
| 29 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 30 | The tone is different ; it is more optimistic , more likely to assume that the process of historical change being viewed has at least some positive attributes , and less likely to dwell on social ‘ ills ’ or problems . |