Example sentences of "to assume [conj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made sense to assume that Yuan and Zukov would throw themselves to the right of the line of fire , but he did not wait for them to act . |
| 2 | But it would be hazardous to assume that prominence and deviance are simply subjective and objective aspects of the same phenomenon . |
| 3 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 4 | He thus appeared to assume that Beattie and those among his witnesses who were from south-east Antrim would not recognise him . |
| 5 | This is such a formidable list that we might be tempted to assume that research and higher education must at least be species of the same genus of activity , even if not actually identical . |
| 6 | Addictive disease runs in families and it is therefore tempting to assume that up-bringing and family and social background are the prime cause of addictive disease . |