Example sentences of "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 | One can assume that all the nationalists preferred O'Neill but even eighty-four per cent of those who called themselves unionists were opposed to Paisley . |
| 6 | You can assume that I mean legitimate , ethical and otherwise proper methods . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | The question is whether grammar ought to be taught as a separate formal study , like harmony or counterpoint , or whether a teacher can assume that it will be picked up through practice . |
| 12 | This assumption is not required before you can assume that X causes Y , but it is required if you want to know how X is causing Y . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From this you can assume that the A2 works connected up to pretty much anything and for this review that 's how I put it through its paces . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Once this has been confirmed , we can assume that the sudden loss of sexual ability has a psychological cause . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 20 | No counsellor can assume that ‘ good ’ relationships either are or have been the norm within the family , and idealistic pictures of family life as a reciprocally loving , mutually committed and concerned relationship should be abandoned . |
| 21 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 22 | A millennium earlier we can assume that her personality and role were less specifically defined . |
| 23 | We can assume that in a normal working session a lexicographer will spend a relatively long time thinking as opposed to manipulating text . |
| 24 | One can assume that the leaders of the Revolt were eliminated , removing the upper levels of tribal society , and also that the lands and possessions of the tribes would have been seized by the state to be retained as agerpublicus , sold off to speculators or given as rewards to loyalists . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | we can assume that it means the piano . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | This is not the sort of news which would make the front pages of newspapers , but you can assume that on the day everyone will be interested in the bride and groom and their respective families . |
| 30 | 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 . |