Example sentences of "could assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time teachers of literature could assume that they were in but not of the academy , and keep a healthy distance from institutional pressures . |
| 2 | Gone are the days when Hull among behaviourists or Lorenz among the classical ethologists could assume that all motivational mechanisms were of the similar type . |
| 3 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 4 | You could assume that the bucks would present themselves for locking up . |
| 5 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 6 | Similarly , the sergeant , in issuing an order , could assume that Jones had knowledge of the authority of sergeants , the obligations of privates , the importance attached to polished boots on parade grounds , and so on . |
| 7 | We could assume that everyone in the population is a user or a potential user of the accounts of public sector organizations . |
| 8 | Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could assume that they had the same luminosity — and so calculate the distance to that galaxy . |
| 9 | The defendant occupiers were held not liable , as they could assume that sweeps would be aware of this particular danger and also because the sweeps had been warned of the danger . |
| 10 | Even in the 1830s the most influential work on international law could assume that salutes at sea were still a significant aspect of the subject . |
| 11 | Horace may or may not have believed in the divinities and demi-gods he poetically invokes ( he often deals whimsically with them , and he describes himself as — not much of a churchgoer ) but they were at the very least a cultural property that he held in common with his audience ; he could assume that his readers — represented by Torquatus — would take the point if , in developing a theme , he reminded them of a name out of history or legend . |
| 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 | I do n't think you could assume that they evaporated . |