Example sentences of "[adv] assume that " in BNC.

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1 Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification .
2 Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs .
3 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 .
4 One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 The parents are going to naturally assume that you 're a if you 're at level five at one stage
9 You say , ‘ we will naturally assume that the party is travelling together ’ .
10 Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light , with their wires leading backwards towards the brain .
11 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 .
12 One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about .
13 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 .
14 His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about .
15 One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity .
16 I can only assume that this continuing violence to musical instruments is being pursued in the interests of ‘ entertaining ’ the majority of the audience ( who are non-musicians ) .
17 We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold .
18 One can only assume that Clinton means well .
19 One can only assume that , at least for a while , they were able to survive on fully aquatic prey , such as fishes .
20 One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal .
21 Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims .
22 One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect .
23 One can only assume that some estates and businesses were sold to his wealthy followers .
24 Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria .
25 I can only assume that it stemmed from wishful thinking or a misunderstanding on the part of one of the council employees or officers .
26 I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless .
27 The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out .
28 It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA .
29 It is not the Commission 's policy to disclose the reasons for its decisions , and I can only assume that the Commission prefer the Refreshment Department 's current practices , which were designed to promote healthy and nutritious food in the House .
30 ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’
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