Example sentences of "we [vb mod] assume " in BNC.
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| 31 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 32 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 33 | Faith is ‘ a state in which we must assume something to prove anything , and we can gain nothing without venture ’ . |
| 34 | We must assume , therefore , that explicit discrimination training will enhance the size of the effect , presumably because it will compel the subject to attend to distinctive and invariant aspects of each stimulus , and to ignore irrelevant aspects . |
| 35 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 36 | ‘ We must assume there is some invisible mass , approximately 100 times larger than the mass of the gas cloud itself , ’ says Terzian . |
| 37 | As the best PR people try to understand their audience before they try to sell something , we must assume that Mr Heseltine is even now reading up on anti-nuclear propaganda . |
| 38 | Put very simply , in order to know anything we must assume certain things in faith . |
| 39 | ‘ Well , Jessamyn 's appearance has changed over the years , from her first arrests as a pre-teenager to this last photograph — please excuse the quality , it 's a blow-up from a spysat picture taken from an orbital pass over Arizona last December — which shows her as we must assume she is now . |
| 40 | We must assume that he was a man like ourselves , and apply our own experience and use our own sympathetic imagination to visualise and enter into his mind . |
| 41 | For example , since all mammals have a cerebral cortex we must assume that the ancestral form also had one . |
| 42 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 43 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 44 | That is , unless we believe that language-users present each other with prefabricated chunks of linguistic strings ( sentences ) , after the fashion of Swift 's professors at the grand academy of Lagado ( Gulliver 's Travels , part 3 , chapter 5 ) , then we must assume that the data we investigate is the result of active processes . |
| 45 | Moreover , since the speaker chose to say my uncle rather than I have an uncle and he … , we must assume she did n't feel the need to assert the information . |
| 46 | We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer . |
| 47 | We must assume that the young child 's acquisition of language comes about in the context of expanding experience , of expanding possible interpretations of forms like here and now in different contexts of situation , contexts which come to be recognised , and stored as types . |
| 48 | We must assume , for present purposes , that the factual allegations pleaded in paragraph 29 are true and that the solicitors were , as a result , ‘ knowingly concerned ’ as alleged . |
| 49 | We must assume that you know how to express yourself in sentences . |
| 50 | We must assume that they were killed , or at least injured , in order to create a legal problem . |
| 51 | Since these particular constraints do not apparently operate upon variation in subject-verb agreement in standard English , which in turn is affected by a different set of constraints ( see Huddleston 1984 : 241 ) , we must assume that the surface variants of the verb which occur in the two dialects are embedded in structurally different grammars . |
| 52 | We must assume that the Society only operated from 1893 to 1895 . |
| 53 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 54 | So er we 've got also , we pr we must assume the Choral Society . |
| 55 | We must assume now that they know about our plan to attack Bremen , but not when or where we will strike . |
| 56 | For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible . |
| 57 | We must assume that in 280 B.C. Cineas spoke Greek in the Roman Senate and was translated by an interpreter ( Plut . |
| 58 | But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great . |
| 59 | We must assume either that all chains between junctions are of equal stretched length or that there is some definable length distribution . |
| 60 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |