Example sentences of "may assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet historical interpretation of literature fairly easily loses sight of literary interests ; if it goes far enough , the interpreter may assume that the idea of poetry or drama as art can be abandoned , since what counts are cultural traces , of whatever kind , and the ideological impressions they appear to bear . |
| 2 | We may assume that during conditioning associations will be formed between contextual cues and the individual events ( the CS and the US ) that occur in their presence . |
| 3 | None of this had any direct relevance to the discovery of drugs , and one may assume that many pharmacologists did not follow these developments . |
| 4 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of her family and friends who knew that her marriage was unsuccessful may assume that her feelings about her husband 's death could only be those of relief that their life together is over at last and that she is now free to seek a better future for herself ; not realising that if a woman has lived with a man for many years , unless he has treated her with extreme cruelty , and shown her no love at all throughout the whole of their marriage , some kind of bond is bound to have existed between them , and that even if he left her with only a handful of good memories of times they spent together , it is likely that she may want to hold on to them , cherish them , and even build upon them . |
| 8 | Sidle into a room apologetically , look a hopeless failure and people may assume that you are . |
| 9 | The scholar may assume that the consensus is the same as his or her own idea of crime . |
| 10 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 11 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 12 | Childbirth is an example of this , where mothers may assume that neither men nor childless women can fully appreciate the experience . |
| 13 | We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent . |
| 14 | A serious problem with this approach is that prudential agents may assume that the oldest group in society is relatively small in number , and further that there is very little chance of living to that age — so may devote scant resources to the oldest group . |
| 15 | In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings . |
| 16 | Whilst LIFESPAN will not modify anything in this directory except its own files , the upgrade instructions may assume that only LIFESPAN files are to be found here . |
| 17 | we may assume that households will move so as , in effect , to subscribe to the clubs ( local governments ) whose policies most closely match their own preferences . |
| 18 | We may assume that very often they exploited ignorance and helplessness , though the extremes of contract labour and debt serfdom were probably un-common in this period , except among the Indians and Chinese shipped abroad for plantation work . |