Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] assume that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , as I suspect , Nicaragua faces serious economic problems , I would assume that part of the blame lies with the previous Nicaraguan government and that Chamorro may be faced with tough decisions needed to ensure that the ‘ empty stomachs ’ of the people are filled . |
| 2 | You can assume that tests are negative if you have not heard from us within 6 weeks of the test being taken . |
| 3 | This assumption is not required before you can assume that X causes Y , but it is required if you want to know how X is causing Y . |
| 4 | In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings . |
| 5 | we may assume that households will move so as , in effect , to subscribe to the clubs ( local governments ) whose policies most closely match their own preferences . |
| 6 | One must assume that Chloe intends to launch a new fragrance based on the stench of rotting vegetables . |
| 7 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 10 | From this book one might assume that BCCI was primarily a US operation . |
| 11 | These substitutes also pay interest or have some other form of income attraction while we shall assume that money does not . |
| 12 | To derive an aggregate supply curve we shall assume that suppliers are primarily influenced by the relative price of the good on their island . |
| 13 | We shall assume that g is known and we shall treat g as the predictable component of monetary growth ; on the other hand , v t is not known and is therefore the unpredictable component . |
| 14 | However , in what follows we shall assume that Lucas estimated the equivalent of equation ( 6.5 ) . |
| 15 | We shall assume that output is determined by the minimum of supply and demand , so that with excess supply in both markets , the quantities traded in each will be determined by demand . |
| 16 | In the quantity trading rule for the labour market we shall assume that employment is determined by the demand for labour . |
| 17 | To illustrate these models we consider a simplified version of the intertemporal substitution model developed above : we shall assume that consumers or demanders have full current information , but suppliers do not . |
| 18 | We will assume that exchange rates with the rest of the world do not change . |
| 19 | In this section we will assume that p objective functions are arranged in decreasing order of priority . |
| 20 | We can assume that Jacques not only played the oboe but was also likely to have been a woodwind maker , as was his brother , Jean , who is noted in the Livre commode ( 1692 ) as being among the most highly regarded master makers of woodwinds . |
| 21 | So we can assume that analysis of prior linguistic units has two effects on subsequent processing . |
| 22 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 23 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 24 | There is no reason why anyone should assume that disease in old age is untreatable , although we often do . |
| 25 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |