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

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1 Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries .
2 When there is a market for the intermediate product , it is usual to assume that each division can trade with that market if it wants to .
3 It is easy to assume that such skills will be picked up incidentally , as they will usually be by fully sighted children , who often copy what they see other children doing , especially if a teacher 's directions are unclear to them .
4 It is reasonable to assume that such changes have significant social and economic effects , yet they have been conspicuously neglected by social scientists .
5 Werking concluded that ‘ It is reasonable to assume that some research may now more satisfactorily come to terms with library use and its relation to bibliographic education ’ .
6 When one in three marriages end in divorce , it is safe to assume that many couples have n't got the balance right .
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