Example sentences of "must assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 4 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 5 | Since the telephone directory is circulated to all government offices throughout the country one must assume that by now the Russians have managed to see a copy . |
| 6 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 7 | Because people seem either to write or commission reports at the slightest excuse you must assume that in most cases a formal , written report is not in fact wanted . |
| 8 | As the best PR people try to understand their audience before they try to sell something , we must assume that Mr Heseltine is even now reading up on anti-nuclear propaganda . |
| 9 | ‘ Some products have too wide a variation to be explained by these factors and one must assume that many multi-national companies are charging what they believe the market will bear . ’ |
| 10 | They must assume that unless they use the term ‘ painting ’ , their work will not be viewed in the same light as the oil painters ' art . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For example , since all mammals have a cerebral cortex we must assume that the ancestral form also had one . |
| 13 | Neither do we find any reference to the thousands of Canadians who served with the US Army in Vietnam , though one must assume that at least some sources for this subject have been published . |
| 14 | One must assume that at least some of these people would have spoken in the light of their personal experience . |
| 15 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 16 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 17 | That is , unless we believe that language-users present each other with prefabricated chunks of linguistic strings ( sentences ) , after the fashion of Swift 's professors at the grand academy of Lagado ( Gulliver 's Travels , part 3 , chapter 5 ) , then we must assume that the data we investigate is the result of active processes . |
| 18 | We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer . |
| 19 | We must assume that the young child 's acquisition of language comes about in the context of expanding experience , of expanding possible interpretations of forms like here and now in different contexts of situation , contexts which come to be recognised , and stored as types . |
| 20 | In considering whether at this stage it is possible to say that the answer to this question must be ‘ nothing ’ I must assume that the third defendant will be found guilty of conspiracy or fraud as alleged by the plaintiffs and also that the third party will be found to be negligent as regards the plaintiffs in the respects mentioned in the third party notice . |
| 21 | We must assume that you know how to express yourself in sentences . |
| 22 | We must assume that they were killed , or at least injured , in order to create a legal problem . |
| 23 | Since these particular constraints do not apparently operate upon variation in subject-verb agreement in standard English , which in turn is affected by a different set of constraints ( see Huddleston 1984 : 241 ) , we must assume that the surface variants of the verb which occur in the two dialects are embedded in structurally different grammars . |
| 24 | We must assume that the Society only operated from 1893 to 1895 . |
| 25 | We must assume that someone wants to see a recording , otherwise there was no point in recording it in the first place . |
| 26 | If the McKinsey-GE matrix is to be similarly interpreted as a guide to the movement of the group 's interests through time , one must assume that a substantial amount of investment must take place in the bottom left-hand corner of the grid in order to build future ‘ stars ’ . |
| 27 | For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible . |
| 28 | We must assume that in 280 B.C. Cineas spoke Greek in the Roman Senate and was translated by an interpreter ( Plut . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |