Example sentences of "[vb mod] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers when they come to Committees should assume that other Ministers have read their papers and time should not be spent on an oral regurgitation of what already appears in writing in the paper . |
| 2 | There is no reason why anyone should assume that disease in old age is untreatable , although we often do . |
| 3 | The system should assume that the top-rated candidates are correct unless the user chooses another of the existing candidates or enters an alternative word . |
| 4 | The iconography necessarily shows rather small numbers of dancers ; generally the seals and rings only allow space for three or four figures , but we should assume that we are being shown only the nucleus of a larger religious ceremony . |
| 5 | Moreover , we should assume that future decisions about Unix will have to take into account what is good for Novell . |
| 6 | I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time . |
| 7 | It will be the concern of the court of the state to which the child is to be returned to minimise or eliminate this harm and , in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary or evidence that it is beyond the powers of those courts in the circumstances of the case , the courts of this country should assume that this will be done . |
| 8 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 9 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |
| 10 | If a receiving office makes use of a referral from an originating office then one should assume that the originating office will take his fee from his client and the receiving office should seek to take a fee , either finders fee or fee for professional assistance , from his client or contact . |
| 11 | A central conclusion of the report was that colleges should assume that all academic staff teaching for the Council 's degrees would ‘ undertake some definite activity falling within the various categories of research ’ that it had outlined . |
| 12 | It is submitted , therefore , that s3 is capable of applying to clauses which define duties , at least where the clause defines the duties in a way contrary to what a reasonable person would expect in the absence of the term in question , and the drafter should assume that it will apply to all clauses which exclude or limit liability for breach of contract , or allow a party to alter the nature of performance ( see also the attitude of Bridge LJ to clauses seeking to avoid liability for misrepresentation in Cremdean Properties Ltd v Nash ( 1977 ) 244 EG 547 , examined in Chapter 8,2 ) . |
| 13 | For instance , because you take A-level English , and you apply to five English courses , I do n't think you should assume that the admissions tutor thinks you want to do English . |
| 14 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 15 | As for his opinions on M.E. , I must assume that he would also condemn the support groups for MS , cancer and heart disease as ‘ self-commiserative ’ societies . |
| 16 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 17 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 18 | Since the telephone directory is circulated to all government offices throughout the country one must assume that by now the Russians have managed to see a copy . |
| 19 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 20 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 21 | As the best PR people try to understand their audience before they try to sell something , we must assume that Mr Heseltine is even now reading up on anti-nuclear propaganda . |
| 22 | ‘ Some products have too wide a variation to be explained by these factors and one must assume that many multi-national companies are charging what they believe the market will bear . ’ |
| 23 | They must assume that unless they use the term ‘ painting ’ , their work will not be viewed in the same light as the oil painters ' art . |
| 24 | We must assume that he was a man like ourselves , and apply our own experience and use our own sympathetic imagination to visualise and enter into his mind . |
| 25 | For example , since all mammals have a cerebral cortex we must assume that the ancestral form also had one . |
| 26 | Neither do we find any reference to the thousands of Canadians who served with the US Army in Vietnam , though one must assume that at least some sources for this subject have been published . |
| 27 | One must assume that at least some of these people would have spoken in the light of their personal experience . |
| 28 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 29 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 30 | That is , unless we believe that language-users present each other with prefabricated chunks of linguistic strings ( sentences ) , after the fashion of Swift 's professors at the grand academy of Lagado ( Gulliver 's Travels , part 3 , chapter 5 ) , then we must assume that the data we investigate is the result of active processes . |