Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Therefore , by common law a hotel must offer food and accommodation to its guests ; but it must also assume a liability for the property of guests , conform to public health and safety regulations , and provide a high standard of cleanliness and sanitation . |
| 4 | Public policy should assume , and seek to encourage , the spread of voluntary parenthood ; it should also assume also that women will take an increasing part in the cultural and economic life of the community and should endeavour , by adjustments of social and economic arrangements , to make it easier for women to combine motherhood and the care of the home with outside interests . |
| 5 | Er I think we should also assume that the regional er budgetholders will not make a contribution to any costs we might incur cos I do n't think any budget they 'll have will be intended to cater for er you know , paying people 's wages for them getting unpaid time off . |
| 6 | Choreographers should never assume that all in the audience have sufficient knowledge of the subject , theme and ideas which are possibly understood only by an exclusive coterie of friends . |
| 7 | You should never assume that because they are the world 's greatest experts on retail warehousing that the job can be left entirely to them . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most important point to make is that , as part of affirmatively assessing elders , we should never assume that unconscious processes are less important or less worthy of exploration than they are in other people . |
| 9 | A diagnostic evaluation of her must therefore assume that , even judged against that contemporary background , she showed evidence of genuine psychopathology . |
| 10 | One must never assume that an elder who can not discuss personal desires does not need an environment in which such desires can crystallize and find expression . |
| 11 | This arrangement can be mathematical once the play is under way ; a conductor or driver may soon assume responsibility for matching passengers to seats and the children will encounter problems of too many , not enough , empty , etc . |
| 12 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
| 13 | Let's just assume that we 've hit that , erm that would have been |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They 'll just assume it 's us . |
| 16 | So , we 'll forget all that , and we 'll just assume that what Freud really meant , was that people have sense of guilt because they 've been socialized to have it . |
| 17 | So in that case , I would get 4522 , BE BI RE , in fact , busy , you can look at busy , it 'll just assume anyway , yes ? |
| 18 | One might easily assume that it has always been an important road . |
| 19 | We might reasonably assume that some general categories are universal ( joke , perhaps , and song ) , that others are shared between cultures which are close to each other in social history or organization ( bank statement , holy Koranic text , political street slogan , Christmas card ) . |
| 20 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 21 | If no double indicator is used the local historian may usually assume that seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century documents dated up to 1752 use the Annunciation method . |
| 22 | ‘ Cosier , do n't you think ? ’ she said coyly , as she slid into a chair nearest the kitchen door and gave him what he could only assume was her standard come-hither look . |
| 23 | The handwriting , he could only assume , was that of Diane Jackson . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 26 | There she found herself ensconced in a huge grey suede and chrome armchair , clutching a hefty measure of Scotch , and staring blankly around at what she could only assume to be the ‘ minimalist ’ style of interior decoration . |
| 27 | When they saw her appear at the bedroom window , they could only assume she was all right . |
| 28 | Investors could generally assume , as they could not in 1982-84 , that most bank loans made to developers and speculators had been adequately secured and documented . |
| 29 | And in 1836 a deputation of Birmingham reformers saw O'Connell on apprenticeship ; they could already assume help from Birmingham and Black Country MPs . |
| 30 | On Aug. 13 the Soviet Union responded coolly to Saddam 's " peace initiative " of the previous day , and on Aug. 17 Shevardnadze said in Moscow after talks with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the Security Council could soon assume a military role which could bring a rapid resolution of the crisis ; the Security Council Military Staff Committee , he said , was the body whose task it was to co-ordinate military measures . |