Example sentences of "[adv] assume that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only assume that the right hon. Gentleman 's last question was a knee-jerk reaction . |
| 2 | One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect . |
| 3 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 4 | He also believes that a Martian might be able to understand symbols ( and so apparently assumes that the Martian is not going to be at all like any future ( IBM computer ) . |
| 5 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 6 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 7 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 8 | We can no longer assume that the only proper music in church is that which is commonly called ‘ traditional ’ . |
| 9 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 10 | There is , however , an alternative approach based on the development of a new understanding of law , which no longer assumes that the legal system is uniform but realises that law is linked into complex processes of communication between and within different sub-systems of society , which in turn form and influence the substance of a particular segment of law . |
| 11 | I had just assumed that the only possible commentary game was West Ham vs Us. 8thvs9th or 2ndvs10 ? ? |
| 12 | But because the demand for central control has arisen out of a general dissatisfaction with education , and this dissatisfaction is often directed towards an excess of ‘ creativity ’ in the classroom , a lack of a disciplined work-force , it is generally assumed that the central common curriculum to be nationally accepted would be down-to-earth , factual , able to be assessed , and marked by a tick or a cross . |
| 13 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |
| 14 | Although it is generally assumed that the free movement of persons within the European Community will increase the impact of ‘ international crime ’ on the internal security problems of the Member States and that more intensive and more effective law enforcement co-operation will be required , there is uncertainty about how better co-ordination can be achieved . |
| 15 | I have always assumed that the other side of the gate is private property and that somewhere deep within the woodland is a cottage . |
| 16 | Although it was always assumed that the Urban Programme would aim to initiate innovative projects , there must be some doubt whether this has always happened . |
| 17 | So that meant I had to call the police , always assuming that the local Neighbourhood Watch had n't . |
| 18 | It is usually assumed that the ineffable in art is beyond the province of the professional academic scholar . |
| 19 | Since the long-run real growth rate in GDP in the UK is between 2.5 and 3 per cent , and if we additionally assume that the long-run inflation rate is 5 per cent , then a realistic estimate of the long-run nominal growth rate in earnings is around 8 per cent per annum . |
| 20 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 21 | The reference centre policy also assumes that the average cost ( ie , per patient seen ) of hospital care is greater than the cost at a health centre , and that a reference centre is cheaper than a hospital . |
| 22 | Er I think we should also assume that the regional er budgetholders will not make a contribution to any costs we might incur cos I do n't think any budget they 'll have will be intended to cater for er you know , paying people 's wages for them getting unpaid time off . |
| 23 | In the light of these new data , we can assume this to be correct ; we may also assume that the extant Hotteterre flutes were made in Martin 's workshop . |
| 24 | ( Critics assume that the other man involved is the same man to whom Sonnets 1–126 have been addressed ; and some also assume that the three people involved in this series ( 133 , 134 , 135 , 143 , 144 ) are the same three involved in the earlier series ( 41 , 42 ) . |
| 25 | It may be reasonably confidently assumed that the different criteria for ambiguity which have been described in fact are sensitive to the same underlying semantic property , and that in the absence of ‘ special factors ’ will provide identical diagnoses . |
| 26 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 27 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 28 | Now assume that the only information available is and , and suppose that we write the vector autoregression ( VAR ) : where and are random errors with zero means , and are uncorrelated with and . |
| 29 | ‘ People often assume that the only way to do big landscapes is on medium or large format , but it is n't true . |
| 30 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |