Example sentences of "[pron] assume [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Sir Thomas and I assumed that distance and the fickleness of youth would take care of the matter , ’ continued Elizabeth Mowbray . |
| 2 | At first I assumed that Lexy 's flowers were just an aberration of your filing system . |
| 3 | I assumed that Engineering department 's approval had been conveyed internally to Mr. , particularly since the letter makes specific reference to our site meeting ( why else would he mention it ? ) . |
| 4 | I assumed that Rimbo was one of our friends from the developing world , like Fenton Akimbo . |
| 5 | ‘ From your conversation with Nina , can I assume that Jennifer told you why I visited her last night ? ’ |
| 6 | I assume that McFarlane meant to refer to the truly colloquial and certainly prevalent use of the term ‘ client ’ to refer to the client company 's directors or management . |
| 7 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 8 | Since I assume that readers will be familiar with the problem , this chapter will not be a straightforward restatement of it or a listing of offensive usages . |
| 9 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 10 | Now I assume that Mother Nature will age me along with everyone else . |
| 11 | Lastly , let me assume that Viscount Dilhorne 's statements have the character of a ‘ decision ’ as that word is used in the Practice Statement ( Judicial Precedent ) [ 1966 ] 1 W.L.R. 1234 , which intimated that this House would depart from a previous decision ‘ when it appears right to do so . ’ |
| 12 | Everyone assumes that students know how to make and use their notes , and yet time and time again a piece of work does not receive the grade it deserves because crucial material or ideas have been left out ; often this is information which the lecturer gave out in classes but which the student did not note down . |
| 13 | The interaction between arousal and retention interval has been interpreted as evidence for Walker 's action decrement theory ( Walker , 1958 ; Walker & Tarte , 1963 ) which assumes that memory traces require a period of consolidation which can be enhanced by arousal , but which initially inhibits access to the trace . |
| 14 | The rigid view of the sexual division of labour previously contained within the system is being diluted , to be replaced by a scheme which assumes that women will both want and need to switch from home to paid work and back again , particularly as the special demands of dependants such as children and the elderly — for whom the system still assumes women are primarily responsible — come and go . |
| 15 | Relativism is a stance which assumes that opinions which can not be tested scientifically are just subjective and relative to the particular context giving rise to them , to cultural upbringing and different individual and group experience . |
| 16 | Both of these ideas contravene the model , which assumes that item difficulty is invariant under these conditions . |
| 17 | So far we have considered the development of marriage blueprints in a way which does not take account of sexual differences and which assumes that learning takes place in the context of a two-person relationship , principally between a child and one or other of his parents . |
| 18 | The linkage of a pressure-cooker view of sexuality ( which sees sex as a natural force constrained by societal norms ) with a cloud-of-dust theory of ideology ( which assumes that ideas are inevitably sifted downwards through society at large ) suggests that the ‘ sexual revolution ’ is in the end just about more sexual activity . |
| 19 | These perceptions were encouraged by policies which assumed that problems of urban deprivation had their origins in the characteristics of local populations and that these could be resolved simply by better co-ordination of the social services and encouragement of citizen involvement and community self-help . |
| 20 | This commercial imperialism was reflected in the liberal social evolutionism of the philosopher Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , which assumed that laissez-faire individualism would spread around the world by simply demonstrating its efficiency as an economic system . |
| 21 | An example of this is the trigram model used in the TANGORA speech recogniser ( Jelinek , 1986 ) which assumed that histories are equivalent if they end in the same two words . |
| 22 | However , Rosenberg ( 1982 ) has questioned the validity of estimates of the impact of climatic change on crop yields which assume that crop varieties and production technologies do not change over time . |
| 23 | At first I thought that Anthony Trollope , though an amusing writer , was another male author of the nineteenth century who assumed that women could not exist without a man somewhere in the vicinity . |
| 24 | If the language itself assumes that men will fill these jobs , it becomes ‘ natural ’ for men to do so — and exceptional if women do . |
| 25 | As a language user you may start from a position of ‘ innocent egotism ’ , whereby you assume that others are like you and share your assumptions , or you can start by trying to assume what the addressee 's terms of reference are and continue in a circular process of mutual discovery . |
| 26 | Comment : Sometimes mistakenly done to create commonality by people who assume that others share their grievances . |
| 27 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 28 | ‘ I have family and friends who assume that Rangers will beat FC Brugge with a couple of goals to spare , but in order to do that we will need to play throughout this week 's game as we did in the second half over there , ’ he added . |
| 29 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 30 | In this atmosphere one assumes that consultants who fail to educate preregistration house officers will lose the privilege of having such a colleague . |