Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] assume that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must not assume that the examiner knows what restitutio in integrum means . |
| 2 | One should not assume that the decisions of working-class families would be substantially affected by new methods of birth control or by new ideas . |
| 3 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 4 | One must never assume that an elder who can not discuss personal desires does not need an environment in which such desires can crystallize and find expression . |
| 5 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 6 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |
| 7 | One need not assume that the quality of service is lower — |
| 8 | In ( a ) we shall simplistically assume that the referents of I and Adam are fixed by spatio-temporal co-ordinates . |
| 9 | Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light , with their wires leading backwards towards the brain . |
| 10 | For simplicity we shall further assume that the length of the loop in the y direction is smaller than the period of the magnetic field , |
| 11 | In the following examples , we shall always assume that the training set is already represented suitably . |
| 12 | Stansted is by the Government to be a major airport of the future and you would therefore assume that the Government would be planning that development but it is now clear that Stansteds future is based on unknown or undisclosed information of genius arithmetic and a desire to listen only to the aviation industry . |
| 13 | You say , ‘ we will naturally assume that the party is travelling together ’ . |
| 14 | In other words , a hearer will generally assume that the producer of an utterance wants to communicate something , and has chosen the linguistic context of his utterance with a view to furthering this aim . |
| 15 | I can only assume that the crew of this barge were new to boating as their attempt to get by the bridge was reminiscent of ’ Game for a Laugh ’ . |
| 16 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 17 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 18 | I can only assume that the words were left out because an assurance ’ vigorously ’ to continue ’ fighting crime ’ would have raised only a horse laugh when offered by a Government with a record of this Government on this subject . |
| 19 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 20 | It is not the Commission 's policy to disclose the reasons for its decisions , and I can only assume that the Commission prefer the Refreshment Department 's current practices , which were designed to promote healthy and nutritious food in the House . |
| 21 | I can only assume that the NI went to press before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait for this important factor to have been omitted . |
| 22 | In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity . |
| 23 | You must state these , because you can not assume that the users of this grammar are well acquainted with such principles . |
| 24 | If we are to understand the significance of subject specialization , then we must take the choices made by women seriously : we can not assume that the student who chooses physical science is somehow ‘ right ’ while the student who chooses the humanities is somehow ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 25 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 26 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 27 | One can therefore assume that the impressions will be embedded in the brain in nonsensical recollections quite unconnected with the structure of the environment ’ . |
| 28 | I think we can safely assume that the statuette was washed and wiped clean after the event . ’ |
| 29 | Besides , while the financial implications of the defeat by England have never been revealed , one can safely assume that the loss has deprived the French players of a fair amount of endorsements and sponsorship . |