Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] assume that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If the cats were n't trained to do that I would assume that they would walk past the hoop of fire and they would under the ropes .
3 Yeah I mean I I would assume that there must be agreed death rates which everybody would accept as as as being applicable in projecting population .
4 Unless I hear to the contrary , I shall assume that you are happy with these arrangements .
5 I will assume that you are not completely unfit and can cope with the demands of normal training .
6 Well if i if it comes up and tells me there 's no airlines there , then I can assume that there 's no airlines !
7 ‘ Then I can assume that you made your decision and that condolences are not required .
8 We also yes I must remind you that we have read the papers so I do n't necessarily want to go through it word by word line by line er but obviously when you want to make a point you will refer back to those papers but do n't you must assume that we have read them and that everybody else has read them .
9 It was quite another for Mary to spend her childhood and adolescence in the most powerful and civilized country in Europe , which was also Scotland 's traditional ally , so that she might assume that what she learned there was not the product of hostile bias .
10 From its appearance you might assume that it 's a portable .
11 I do n't think you could assume that they evaporated .
12 you , you could not work out that it was one pound fifty nine , you could , you could assume that it was a proportion of that six pound thirty five
13 If she 'd already heard of Burrows ’ escape , she would assume that our attention would be directed towards him .
14 She will assume that her villainous son has been involved in yet more villainy . ’
15 ‘ And if they 're not in by tomorrow morning — and I mean tomorrow morning — you can assume that we 'll be buying our photocopying paper elsewhere ! ’
16 Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes .
17 You can assume that I mean legitimate , ethical and otherwise proper methods .
18 If the new work is given to you in a lecture , you can assume that you require two hours of study for each hour of lecture — for reading of the subject before the lecture , and as a first review ( " within the first 24 hours ) .
19 When we would expect a feeling to be expressed to some extent by both partners but instead one person is quite overcome with emotion while the other is apparently untouched , we may assume that one carries and expresses the feeling for both .
20 We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent .
21 All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration , displeasing to God ; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account .
22 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 .
23 I , I think that we should assume that we would not get paid time .
24 We must assume that they were killed , or at least injured , in order to create a legal problem .
25 We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place .
26 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 .
27 But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great .
28 We must assume that you know how to express yourself in sentences .
29 Mary , you must try and transfer it , do n't you , because you ca n't see that Jo 's handset 's off the hook , we 'll assume that we know that , okay , we 'll cheat , we 'll try and call park it .
30 We could assume that everyone in the population is a user or a potential user of the accounts of public sector organizations .
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