Example sentences of "assume [conj] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to me that music television , like sports programming , mainly assumes that its audiences live in the same world and share the same expertise . |
| 2 | This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds . |
| 3 | He assumes that his family is not only as old as the hills , but rather more structural , and that nature , although on the whole a good idea — ‘ a little low , perhaps , when not enclosed with a park-fence ’ — is none the less ‘ dependent for its execution on your great county families ’ . |
| 4 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 5 | The Borinage , desolate and impoverished , was a coalfield in the south-west of Belgium near , a region of flat blasted lands surmounted by slag heaps of waste , One assumes that his father financed this latest venture . |
| 6 | That is to say , although the New Critics were less interested in evaluation than Richards , and more interested in description and analysis , they nonetheless assumed that their principles constituted criteria for distinguishing good literature from bad , and that good literature had an important part to play in human affairs . |
| 7 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 8 | If there was a choice of department within a region , we chose the one that gave its nurse practitioners most responsibility as we assumed that its nurse practitioners would fulfil the role most completely , enabling us to examine the role more effectively . |
| 9 | Leavisism assumed that its rewriting of the canon had a once-and-for-all quality , so that it was inconceivable that anyone could come to admire Shelley again , though this is precisely what has happened under the influence of Harold Bloom , who is dedicated to overturning the Eliot-Leavis version of poetic history . |
| 10 | She did not appreciate that this was his normal greeting , and assumed that her reputation had preceded her . |
| 11 | From the co-operative principle , I also assumed that my neighbour was telling the truth ( there was no evidence that she was lying , hallucinating , or playing a practical joke ) . |
| 12 | Right , erm I 've actually got down that erm you assumed that his wife was n't a tax pay sorry , his wife was n't a tax payer and you assumed that she was n't working but you did actually pick back up on that later that she was n't that she was n't going back to work after having the children so erm tt that is now irrelevant but it was at the time that you were saying it , that you did n't actually pick it up . |
| 13 | He wrote in his 1981 biography : ‘ I assumed that his death was due to an accidental drug overdose . ’ |
| 14 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 15 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 16 | A millennium earlier we can assume that her personality and role were less specifically defined . |
| 17 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |
| 18 | The annual report of the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association — published today — attacks senior management and declares : ‘ We can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Given senior management 's reluctance to identify the role of area directors , we can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . |
| 20 | Investors will , however , assume that their forecasts of demand were too high ( whereas in fact they were too low ) and revise their investment rates down still further . |
| 21 | This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | It is legitimate to speculate about the Devil as long as we do not assume that our speculations have the solidity of holy writ . |
| 23 | We can not merely assume that our minds are so filled , but this must be treated as an object for empirical enquiry . |
| 24 | If she 'd already heard of Burrows ’ escape , she would assume that our attention would be directed towards him . |
| 25 | So , Let us assume that our aircraft speed is 90kts . |
| 26 | Consequently we do not dare assume that our partner will share our expectations in each situation . |
| 27 | One word of warning : do n't assume that your surprise attack is always going to work , otherwise you might get a nasty surprise yourself . |
| 28 | • If you 're buying fish which are normally kept in brackish conditions , such as Mollies , Puffers and some Gobies , do n't automatically assume that your dealer is stocking them with added salt . |
| 29 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 30 | Again , should you assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him , or can you assume that he is a lawyer so that a hint is sufficient ? |