Example sentences of "[not/n't] assuming " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Gordon Higginson , university vice-chancellor , said yesterday : ‘ I am not assuming students would be fully-funded by government . ’ |
| 2 | He has also been the main advocate of pluralism , and of not assuming there is only one correct interpretation of the past . |
| 3 | Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’ |
| 4 | Being specific means not assuming that people know what you want . |
| 5 | Radcliffe-Brown ( 1952 ) and Evans-Pritchard ( 1965 ) denied this , stating that there was no a priori reason for not assuming the opposite , namely that ritual creates anxiety , and that the task of the anthropologist was not to infer psychological states in others , but to focus on the sociological significance of social institutions : ritual being one such . |
| 6 | Staff said that they felt more inclined to offer services if they were not assuming sole responsibility for an individual 's welfare but could ‘ share the burden ’ . |
| 7 | I like to remind myself , from time to time , of Lord Macnaghten 's remark that he did not think that the framers of the Irish Land Act were to blame for not assuming that a judge would go out of his way to derogate from the rights of a third person who had nothing whatever to do with the matter in hand . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not assuming anything , ’ he said , and his own voice was surprisingly unruffled . |
| 9 | If it is now assumed that the coefficients on and in the unemployment equation are different , so that we are not assuming structural neutrality , we can rewrite the unemployment equation as : |
| 10 | We are not assuming that refining margins will improve significantly in the near future . |
| 11 | ‘ I was n't assuming . ’ |
| 12 | The teenagers from Cherwell School are up against some stiff competition from 11 other schools in the regional final of a national choral event being held at the Wytham Theatre in Swindon , and although confident they 'll do well , choir mistress , Anna Haxworth is n't assuming her score will win a place in the London final next month . |