Example sentences of "[adv] assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recipes in it ( there are over 100 ) are indeed ideally suited to students ; Sarah Freeman sensibly assumes a fairly restricted range of kitchen equipment , and the ingredients are all basic supermarket supplies . |
| 2 | Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification . |
| 3 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 4 | He would personally assume responsibility for disconnecting food and water supplies and would not give Tony antibiotics if he developed any more infections . |
| 5 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 6 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 7 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 8 | One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency . |
| 9 | This may correspond in part to the relatively wide range found around average size of establishment , though it would be unwise to necessarily assume this to be so , given the variety of practice found within authorities of similar size . |
| 10 | Two people would share the role of secretary ; two more with a head for figures would take on the work of treasurer , an area which would necessarily assume vital importance with the huge legal costs that would have to be faced . |
| 11 | The police would not necessarily assume that the bones in the graveyard were of people who had lived at Wyvis Hall , nor that those who had brought about their deaths had lived there . |
| 12 | A different reader will spot them quickly , and newspapers and publishers employ people one of whose jobs it is to pick out the " literals " ( slips ) made by writers , typists and typesetters : readers do not necessarily assume that the editor or journalist ca n't spell if they find a printing error . |
| 13 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 14 | The managing director who suddenly assumes a very friendly , familiar manner may be regarded with suspicion ; the accountant who turns up to work in his track suit may be ridiculed . |
| 15 | ‘ The freedom to travel independently is taken for granted by most of us and only assumes its real importance when it is limited or even removed , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 16 | The Jacob of the larger Genesis narrative , his mind full of the dangers of his coming encounter with Esau , and thinking that Esau is already on his way to attack him , must naturally assume at first that his attacker is his brother . |
| 17 | In recent Second Language Acquisition ( SLA ) research ( for example , Long 1983a ) there has been a recognition that the learner does not naturally assume the role of passive recipient but is actively involved in the process of manipulating the input so that it is optimally comprehensible . |
| 18 | The parents are going to naturally assume that you 're a if you 're at level five at one stage |
| 19 | You say , ‘ we will naturally assume that the party is travelling together ’ . |
| 20 | Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light , with their wires leading backwards towards the brain . |
| 21 | The theory wrongly assumes the existence of a ‘ meritocracy ’ — that there is equal opportunity for all to develop their talent : public schoolboys in Britain and white South African children , for example , do not start alongside their age-peers in an equal contest . |
| 22 | The element of the image which suggests that as a matter of principled obligation all members of a group rushed to the aid of , say , an aggressive and irresponsible cattle-thief or rapist , may therefore be the product of the practical consideration that men related to an offender prudently assumed they would be held collectively responsible for his actions . |
| 23 | Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones . |
| 24 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you do n't look a bit like Mr Harris , ’ she said , ‘ so we can only assume … ’ ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I can only assume there was a problem on the day , ’ says the spokesman , of Guildford 's difficulties . |
| 27 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 28 | The good prospect ’ he added , ‘ could arise if , as individuals , we felt able to resist the temptation to produce when that production does no more than fill up warehouses and to resist the temptation to chase prices down with what I can only assume is the objective of preserving a small bit of market share ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says . |
| 30 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |