Example sentences of "[not/n't] to assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Whittaker warns his men not to assume that the black who answers the door of a heavily guarded fortress is the maid . |
| 2 | Hunt as the Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey must have been involved , and it is difficult not to assume that he had a conflict of loyalties in this transaction . |
| 3 | We ought not to assume that our own interests will be those of our children . |
| 4 | But it is important not to assume this connection a priori . |
| 5 | This is not to assume that these interests are homogeneous and without serious contradictions ( Chambliss 1981 ) . |
| 6 | Low achievement and social disadvantage are clearly associated , though it is important not to assume that there is a simple relation between them . |
| 7 | We 'd have had to be pretty stupid not to assume what we did . |
| 8 | I think it 's fairly safe to assume — in fact , it would be criminally negligent not to assume — that the terrorists who planned those crimes are still in residence in London and New York , waiting . |
| 9 | This is particularly relevant in attitude surveys , where it is important not to assume that people 's expressed attitudes , on , say , race relations , are consistent with their actual behaviour . |
| 10 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 11 | Whilst legislative reforms such as changes in the abortion laws and the law governing homosexuality are viewed as essentially liberal measures , we are not to assume therefore that this was indicative of a period of unproblematically increasing sexual liberation . |
| 12 | The fears of retribution were heightened by a directive from Washington not to assume any responsibility for the rehabilitation of Japan nor to assume the obligation to maintain any particular standard of living . |
| 13 | Drugs such as cannabis specifically affect short-term memory and therefore under-achievement in examinations and in other tests is a common indicator of drug use , although care must be taken not to assume that all under-achievers are necessarily on drugs . |
| 14 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |
| 15 | It is important , therefore , that the implications of the work there are fully understood , though we must be careful not to assume as much for every settlement we study . |
| 16 | We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands . |
| 17 | This is not to assume either that there has never been pressure within the universities for change or that the state is necessarily hostile to the collegiate model . |