Example sentences of "[adv] to assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 2 | However , it is not good enough to assume that physical restrictions to access to college buildings can be removed , in one fell swoop , by the construction of a ramp or the fitting of a handrail . |
| 3 | These are strategic alternatives which would capitalize on George and Marie 's strengths and minimize their weaknesses : it is the business of a case study answer to identify these alternatives and not just to assume that the proprietors have to go on as they started . |
| 4 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 5 | Mr Whittaker warns his men not to assume that the black who answers the door of a heavily guarded fortress is the maid . |
| 6 | Hunt as the Surveyor to the Dean and Chapter of the Abbey must have been involved , and it is difficult not to assume that he had a conflict of loyalties in this transaction . |
| 7 | We ought not to assume that our own interests will be those of our children . |
| 8 | This is not to assume that these interests are homogeneous and without serious contradictions ( Chambliss 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Low achievement and social disadvantage are clearly associated , though it is important not to assume that there is a simple relation between them . |
| 10 | This is particularly relevant in attitude surveys , where it is important not to assume that people 's expressed attitudes , on , say , race relations , are consistent with their actual behaviour . |
| 11 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 12 | Drugs such as cannabis specifically affect short-term memory and therefore under-achievement in examinations and in other tests is a common indicator of drug use , although care must be taken not to assume that all under-achievers are necessarily on drugs . |
| 13 | We must be careful not to assume that this ‘ beads on a string ’ pattern is the norm , because in such areas there is frequently abundant prehistoric and Romano-British settlement on the dry and now abandoned chalk uplands . |
| 14 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 15 | We may not go on to assume that informed opinion then had already recognised the nature of the prospective problem , nor to attribute to the reforming Whigs a reactionary motive which depends on that assumption . |
| 16 | This is correct ; but its adherents then go on to assume that critical thinking consists of a set of intellectual skills that can be exercised by themselves . |
| 17 | Determinism seems fairly obvious in this case , but Laplace went further to assume that there were similar laws governing everything else , including human behavior . |
| 18 | In a simple case of the sale of registered land ( such as transfer of whole ) it 's common now to assume that your draft will be acceptable without alteration , and therefore to type the top copy on an engrossment print , and to invite the buyer to use this as the engrossment . |
| 19 | Are we then to assume that the Zande and other people with similar beliefs in occult power are virtually schizophrenics , with their minds split between two irreconcilable ways of comprehending the world ? |
| 20 | However , it would be dangerous indeed to assume that all these entrants were intended to acquire a full competence in the trade.58 Work on Essex shows that the skill and training content of female apprenticeships was generally modest , and that they tended to have a different meaning . |
| 21 | Since then a number of people a great deal abler than ourselves have worked on the problem but , because of the sheer labour of handling the algebra they were forced either to assume that the crack tip was infinitely sharp , that is had zero radius , or else , with a finite tip radius , to use very approximate methods , or at least to map the stress system only in certain regions . |
| 22 | Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked . |
| 23 | It seems sensible therefore to assume that they mean a contract which contains no condition preventing Rule 1 from applying . |