Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] assume [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before we move from discussing the lower levels of language — words , phrases , grammatical categories — to talking about the text as a unit of meaning , it would perhaps be useful to explain briefly what a text is and why we identify a given stretch of language as a text rather than assume that it is a set of unrelated words and sentences . |
| 2 | Rather than assuming that a few corrupt workers steal large amounts , it would seem more reasonable to contend that many , if not the majority , of employees regularly take small amounts . |
| 3 | For example , Morwenna Griffiths refers to the feminist emphasis on generating abstractions on the basis of concrete , personal experience ( rather than assuming that inherited abstractions adequately explain experience ) . |
| 4 | His work would , I think , support Romaine 's general concern with studying ‘ differing degrees of subjectivity ’ rather than assuming and searching for ontologically neutral ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 5 | We cover them up and assume that when someone takes their socks off there will be a nasty smell . |
| 6 | but the second way in which section fourteen arises is this slightly more oblique way , erm , it 's , it 's not really the question of competition law it 's more a question of administrative law or constitutional law , erm whether it arises on the question er , your Lordship will have to decide , but , if , if it does then we believe that our case is extremely strong , because what one is saying here is , is section fourteen a block to an article eighty five action , erm does it make it either virtually impossible or something lesser excessively difficult , er and we say er that that 's one aspect and two can we show it 's discriminatory , well we say first of all it is discriminatory because even on analysis of the bad faith argument they are putting in a claimant with an article eighty five case to an extraordinary length in order to make good his case , he first of all has to super declaration presumably that he is entitled to damages , but he ca n't get damages all he 's entitled to is the declaration if then do n't satisfy that claim by paying up and their not going to be ordered by the court to pay up because that 's a claim for damages and you ca n't have that then you have to sue them again on the basis of breach of bad faith , er no other provision in English law would go to that effect and that of course even , even that assumes whether rightly or wrongly and we say possibly wrongly that er , er the failure to comply with the judgment of the declaration would be bad faith within the meaning of the act , but even assuming it 's right it puts a plaintiff suing for breach of article eighty five in the worst position possible |
| 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 | I saw the light there and assumed that he was working . ’ |
| 9 | She could hear stirrings upstairs and assumed that Matey , who often rose early when she could not sleep late , was on her way down to start her chores alongside McAllister . |