Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] assume [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of the nursing profession , who once assumed that training for registration would equip them for a career in nursing now realise that this is no longer the case . |
| 2 | We generally assume that stress falls on DO when used for emphasis , as in I did see him . |
| 3 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 4 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 5 | Mills rejects pluralist accounts because they mistakenly assume that power is only located in the political system . |
| 6 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |