Example sentences of "we can assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Sir Vivien had reached the fifteenth green at the time of his abduction and Bonzo arrived in the clubhouse at ten o'clock , we can assume that Sir Vivien himself must have begun his round at , shall we say , about half past eight . ’ |
| 2 | Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change . |
| 3 | If the subject prefers to look at one stimulus rather than another we can assume that he has detected a difference between them . |
| 4 | Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine . |
| 5 | Mr Grayson replied : ‘ If we can assume that the same degree of care is taken in all countries showing — and I think it is true , certainly , of Switzerland and West Germany — beech observations , then you could certainly say that the health of beech trees reflected in crown condition must be borne out by observation . ’ |
| 6 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 7 | We need to ask whether the effects of hypnosis upon human thought processes , on reasoning and memory , are really understood ; whether we can assume that a person under hypnosis truly remembers actual events . |
| 8 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 9 | Therefore we can assume that there are 3 minor pentatonic scales all found in the key of G Major : ie. A , B and E minor pentatonics . |
| 10 | Once this has been confirmed , we can assume that the sudden loss of sexual ability has a psychological cause . |
| 11 | We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century . |
| 12 | A millennium earlier we can assume that her personality and role were less specifically defined . |
| 13 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 14 | Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first . |
| 15 | That may cause practical problems in detecting the consequences , but this is a thought experiment after all , and we can assume that technical ingenuity will prove equal to the task of providing adequate amplification of the signal . |
| 16 | we can assume that it means the piano . |
| 17 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 18 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 19 | So we can assume that analysis of prior linguistic units has two effects on subsequent processing . |
| 20 | In other words , we can assume that most of the speech analysed by Beattie was actually being planned as the discussions proceeded . |
| 21 | We can assume that the processing resources available for language production are limited , and attempts to hold items for future as well as current constituents would result in an unnecessary drain on processing resources . |
| 22 | The integration over involves only and on the assumption of overall fibre symmetry ( a case common in polymers in the fibrous form ; but not , of course , necessarily so in the sheet or bulk forms ) we can assume that is a function of only and integrate over — and also over . |
| 23 | If n is sufficiently large that 1 is a small increment , we can assume that the marginal firm is exactly breaking even : where is determined from the demand curve |
| 24 | ‘ Then perhaps we can assume that she does n't exist , ’ said Penelope . |
| 25 | We can assume that each Overseas Group has about four visitors per year . |
| 26 | SOLUTION The first step in any such calculation is to write the equation for the reaction : Since excess chloride ions are used , we can assume that all the Age ions are converted to AgCl . |
| 27 | This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water . |
| 28 | Furthermore , we can assume that this mechanical effect is similar for all preparations tested and does not greatly influence the results of the mucosal concentrations . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , we can assume that when speakers of two different varieties of a language come into contact , some sort of grammatical accommodation takes place . |
| 30 | We can assume that most of the migrants were not in fact speakers of the basilect alone , but commanded a range of styles somewhere in the middle of the continuum . |