Example sentences of "[vb mod] not assume that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plaintiffs should not assume that they are entitled to be " whitewashed " by a defendant who has paid them merely nominal damages , and it would be more satisfactory if judges made some enquiries of the parties before they approve statements which are made as matters of public record . |
| 2 | Of course you may get some probably some very good people a added , I do n't know wh wh wh they 'll be none of us knows , er they 're are going to nowhere that they 're going to get their expenses , they 're also going to get their allowances , I do n't know what those allowances will be er and I would n't assume that they 're necessarily going to lessen their independents because they receive allowances , but it is weakened , it is weakening the powers of the local institutions which are an essential part of our democratic society in this country . |
| 3 | At the same time , it is argued , the increasing demand for competitively gained qualifications means that children from middle-class families can not assume that they will avoid downward mobility . |
| 4 | Since standard English and Irish English syntactic forms do not mark the same temporal and aspectual distinctions , we can not assume that they are embedded in the same underlying grammar . |
| 5 | Just because the technology offers exciting possibilities , we can not assume that they will be realised . |