Example sentences of "they [adv] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 2 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 3 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 4 | They just assumed that , being black , he had n't got any — and he 'd got a degree . |
| 5 | By ignoring the complex natural course , however , they mistakenly assume that , because waiting times are often considerable , children who present with effusion have had glue ear for some time and will continue to do so without treatment . |
| 6 | Mills rejects pluralist accounts because they mistakenly assume that power is only located in the political system . |
| 7 | That is to say , although the New Critics were less interested in evaluation than Richards , and more interested in description and analysis , they nonetheless assumed that their principles constituted criteria for distinguishing good literature from bad , and that good literature had an important part to play in human affairs . |
| 8 | For this reason , when games theorists talk about the Iterated or Repeated Prisoner 's Dilemma game , they always assume that the end of the game is unpredictable , or known only to the banker . |
| 9 | When children add new words to a domain , they typically assume that the words apply at the same level , and so contrast . |
| 10 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 11 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 12 | But some philosophers get themselves tied in knots because they implicitly assume that the cat can have only one history . |
| 13 | Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant . |
| 14 | Or would they silently assume that Franca would do it , or at least arrange it ? |
| 15 | They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called . |
| 16 | They too assume that if only their methods are pursued well enough , sense can be made of the most intense , idiosyncratic experience . |