Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] assume that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this is a prototype instrument I 'll assume that the string fault I 've mentioned has already been spotted and rectified , otherwise any criticism is a matter of personal preference . |
| 2 | I would assume that the marketing costs could be spread fairly evenly over the full five-year period . |
| 3 | I would assume that the County Council 's assessment of need at a hundred and twenty two hectares does take cognizance of the s the anticipated growth in housing . |
| 4 | B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B. |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't think , ’ Celia said softly , ‘ I do n't think you ought to assume that the laity does n't notice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You could assume that the bucks would present themselves for locking up . |
| 8 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 9 | Since these particular constraints do not apparently operate upon variation in subject-verb agreement in standard English , which in turn is affected by a different set of constraints ( see Huddleston 1984 : 241 ) , we must assume that the surface variants of the verb which occur in the two dialects are embedded in structurally different grammars . |
| 10 | We must assume that the Society only operated from 1893 to 1895 . |
| 11 | We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer . |
| 12 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 13 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 14 | For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible . |
| 15 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 16 | If specific rates refer to 5-year age groups , we must assume that the rate applies in every year of the group so that the rate derived from the fictitious figures of table 10.5 is |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I shall not rise to the inevitable sexism which comes from the Government front bench , ’ replied Ms Armstrong , and since not even today 's siren Labour party can consider the word ‘ silly ’ to be sexist we must assume that the objection is to being described as a woman . |
| 20 | Again , one might assume that the change of position occurred without any feelings of attitude-change or dissonance . |
| 21 | So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years . |
| 22 | To keep things as simple as possible we shall assume that the quantity of money is determined by the government in accordance with the following process : where g is a constant and v t is a random , serially uncorrelated error with zero mean and constant variance . |
| 23 | In order to simplify exposition we shall assume that the level of money wages is given at W so that we are able to fix the position of the aggregate marginal cost curve in Figure 5.5(b) . |
| 24 | ( For the moment we shall assume that the public 's payments for the bonds come from their expenditure on consumption goods . ) |
| 25 | Again , for simplicity we shall assume that the price level is believed to remain unchanged over the period of the contract , so we can write : |
| 26 | For purposes of exposition we shall assume that the surplus-value is divided equally between accumulation and unproductive consumption . |
| 27 | In developing our simple model , we shall assume that the demand for labour ( D L ) , which we shall define here as the number of jobs being offered by all firms in the economy , depends directly on the rate of national income ( Y ) and inversely on real labour costs ( RLC ) . |
| 28 | We would assume that the discussion , in such a case , would cease to be a discussion which appealed to primarily linguistic evidence in this piece of discourse . |
| 29 | Normally , one would assume that the particle will move on a straight line away from A. However , according to the sum over histories , it can move on any path that starts at A. It is like what happens when you place a drop of ink on a piece of blotting paper . |
| 30 | Furthermore , we will assume that the sector to which we are referring accounts for a sufficiently small part of consumer expenditure that income effects are unimportant . |