Example sentences of "we can not assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can not assume that what the linguist identifies as significant should correspond with aspects of language to be focused on in the teaching and learning of a language as a school subject . |
| 2 | Without accepting the necessarily and inevitably more integrative role of the party , I believe the argument is a valid one ; we can not assume an easy identity between labourism and trade unionism . |
| 3 | We can not assume , for example , that counsellees are going to be willing or able to immediately divulge the full nature of their feelings and difficulties . |
| 4 | Just because Ms Average is a cooperative rather than competitive speaker , we can not assume that Jane Smith who is sitting in front of you will not deliver the goods . |
| 5 | We wish to suggest that we can not assume an a priori aggressive drive in humans . |
| 6 | Thus if we have a whole W , made up of parts X and Y then we can not assume that the value of W is the value of X added to the value of Y , for W may be an organic unity . |
| 7 | But we can not assume that this is always the case . |
| 8 | And , certainly , we can not assume that processes in writing are unvarying . |
| 9 | We can not assume that . |
| 10 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 11 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 12 | If we are to understand the significance of subject specialization , then we must take the choices made by women seriously : we can not assume that the student who chooses physical science is somehow ‘ right ’ while the student who chooses the humanities is somehow ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 13 | We can not assume , of course , that girls simply accept the images portrayed of them in textbooks ; a concentration on content analysis of textbooks does not tell us whether they are ignored , accepted , or challenged by their users . |
| 14 | We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception . |
| 15 | We can not assume that a divergent phonological system , for example , is structurally similar to or derivative from RP , or that lexical items belong to the same phonemic sets , or that the tense/aspect system is structured in the same way as that of standard English . |
| 16 | Since standard English and Irish English syntactic forms do not mark the same temporal and aspectual distinctions , we can not assume that they are embedded in the same underlying grammar . |
| 17 | Just because the technology offers exciting possibilities , we can not assume that they will be realised . |
| 18 | In short , we can not assume that higher education is a site of pure reason . |
| 19 | In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity . |
| 20 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 21 | The consultation paper and video are designed to mean all things to all men — we can not assume that points we support will be retained . |
| 22 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 23 | On the other hand , we can not assume that all people accused of Jacobite activity were guilty as charged ; some fell victim to the false allegations of professional perjurers . |
| 24 | We can not assume there are " universals " of joke-production , any more than there are " universals " of joke-themes ( although Chiaro tells us there are some ) . |