Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb mod] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I have n't totally had a chance to talk to Mr er , about that , but I would assume that means you er , and so it 's moving in the other direction if anything Mrs . |
| 2 | This is not the sort of news which would make the front pages of newspapers , but you can assume that on the day everyone will be interested in the bride and groom and their respective families . |
| 3 | As we go to press , FRS 3 has still not been issued , but we shall assume that it follows the lines of FRED 1 . |
| 4 | ( There is also of course a third , distinct , possibility , that it is a daily record kept in Italian , but we shall assume that this uses Italian in the sense of Italian language — that is to say , as a noun — and is , therefore , an example of a different kind of syntactic phrase , the noun + noun combination , seen in fish tank . ) |
| 5 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 6 | All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration , displeasing to God ; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account . |
| 7 | Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine . |
| 8 | The iconography necessarily shows rather small numbers of dancers ; generally the seals and rings only allow space for three or four figures , but we should assume that we are being shown only the nucleus of a larger religious ceremony . |
| 9 | All I was going to say was that clearly I agree with one thing , but one would assume that as the paper is a really a general outline that we would be seeing specific targets as the agenda 's worked through over the next two three years . |
| 10 | In rested subjects , the relationship between response speed and CNV amplitude is not simple , but one might assume that if lapses of attention are responsible for the generally lowered CNV with sleep loss , these should be associated with slow responses , when the subject was ill-prepared for the second , imperative stimulus , having failed to notice the warning stimulus . |