Example sentences of "could [adv] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 3 | " An ambassador " , wrote an anonymous author of the early seventeenth century , " must not permit or allow anyone to challenge or in any other way offend the honour of his Prince on any subject at all " , while more than sixty years later Wicquefort could still assume that ceremonial niceties must be an essential preoccupation of any diplomat . |
| 4 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 5 | Anyone reading this today could well assume that they were being given a description of a military event , but the date was in fact 1950 and I was about to start my secondary education . |