Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] assume that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In considering whether at this stage it is possible to say that the answer to this question must be ‘ nothing ’ I must assume that the third defendant will be found guilty of conspiracy or fraud as alleged by the plaintiffs and also that the third party will be found to be negligent as regards the plaintiffs in the respects mentioned in the third party notice . |
| 2 | As this is a prototype instrument I 'll assume that the string fault I 've mentioned has already been spotted and rectified , otherwise any criticism is a matter of personal preference . |
| 3 | I would assume that the marketing costs could be spread fairly evenly over the full five-year period . |
| 4 | I would assume that the mysterious Mr Andropulos has friends in the government . ’ |
| 5 | I would assume that the County Council 's assessment of need at a hundred and twenty two hectares does take cognizance of the s the anticipated growth in housing . |
| 6 | I shall assume that the zoological species Homo sapiens is indeed a unity in the sense that in the hypothetical absence of all cultural restraints interbreeding between the members of any randomly selected human population of randomly selected individuals would be random , just as it would be in a randomly selected pack of mongrel dogs provided always that particular individual dogs were prevented from asserting dominance over their neighbours . |
| 7 | B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B. |
| 8 | For instance , because you take A-level English , and you apply to five English courses , I do n't think you should assume that the admissions tutor thinks you want to do English . |
| 9 | You could assume that the bucks would present themselves for locking up . |
| 10 | From this you can assume that the A2 works connected up to pretty much anything and for this review that 's how I put it through its paces . |
| 11 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 12 | If a receiving office makes use of a referral from an originating office then one should assume that the originating office will take his fee from his client and the receiving office should seek to take a fee , either finders fee or fee for professional assistance , from his client or contact . |
| 13 | If the McKinsey-GE matrix is to be similarly interpreted as a guide to the movement of the group 's interests through time , one must assume that a substantial amount of investment must take place in the bottom left-hand corner of the grid in order to build future ‘ stars ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 17 | For example , since all mammals have a cerebral cortex we must assume that the ancestral form also had one . |
| 18 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We must assume that the Society only operated from 1893 to 1895 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ I shall not rise to the inevitable sexism which comes from the Government front bench , ’ replied Ms Armstrong , and since not even today 's siren Labour party can consider the word ‘ silly ’ to be sexist we must assume that the objection is to being described as a woman . |
| 27 | Surely we must assume that the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , had the common sense to warn his colleagues in the Cabinet that the fuel tax would be a suicide note for the remaining Tory MPs in Scotland ? |
| 28 | If specific rates refer to 5-year age groups , we must assume that the rate applies in every year of the group so that the rate derived from the fictitious figures of table 10.5 is |
| 29 | Again , one might assume that the change of position occurred without any feelings of attitude-change or dissonance . |
| 30 | So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years . |