Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 2 | So I assume Half a Sixpence is finished . |
| 3 | How little do we know of nature 's processes and how much we assume . |
| 4 | Perhaps they assume that if they are the customer they will be liable for their clients ' obligations as principal . |
| 5 | they came up to you if there 's two women together they assume that they have the right to talk to you , that you 're going to be interested in them , and if you tell them to get lost however politely , you can get a very , very unpleasant response because they assume that what they have to say is more important ! |
| 6 | Thus we assume that the forces of demand and supply have free play ; that there is no close combination among dealers on either side , but each acts for himself , and there is much free competition ; that is , buyers generally compete freely with buyers , and sellers compete freely with sellers . |
| 7 | now that 's your piece still I assume |
| 8 | Now I assume that Mother Nature will age me along with everyone else . |
| 9 | Now I assume that in America as in England , if you have children you then get some financial help . |
| 10 | Exports depend on such factors as incomes in other countries and the rate of exchange ( which for now we assume fixed ) . |
| 11 | Too often we assume that others want exactly what we want or need those things we find easiest to deliver . |
| 12 | Too often we assume that a lower price makes the buyer happier . |
| 13 | Some general legal rules do exist , but often they assume a set of medical realities long overtaken by events . |
| 14 | Well I assume they 're some sort of |
| 15 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 16 | but come as not surprisingly I assume you have read the relevant brochures |
| 17 | Here we assume that the right-hand bit position represents 2 or one , so that numeric values lie in the range zero to 2 n -1 , where n is the word length . |
| 18 | Then I assume that you withdraw your objection . |
| 19 | It 's all there I assume , |
| 20 | If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination . |
| 21 | Initially we assume no technical progress . |
| 22 | Initially we assume that there is excess supply in both markets . |
| 23 | Our provisional conclusion can be no more than that Rawls and others arguing for neutrality in similar ways fail to establish their case , and that sometimes they assume too quick or simple a connection between neutrality and personal autonomy . |
| 24 | Sometimes they assume that such relations can be altered by intervening at this purely psychological level . |
| 25 | If these descriptions assume that the only moral prohibition we must honour is the prohibition against cruelty , then they assume that it is sometimes morally permissible to cause animals pain , even substantial pain . |
| 26 | Instead we assume that each store location in main store can hold either an instruction or a piece of data ; this does not , of course , preclude the possibility of distinguishing these two cases at any particular time , either by segregating instruction areas from data areas , or by marking store locations in some way . |
| 27 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 28 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 29 | Again we assume that she would have young children , children who would normally be expected to be living with her . |
| 30 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |