Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] assume that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As this is a prototype instrument I 'll assume that the string fault I 've mentioned has already been spotted and rectified , otherwise any criticism is a matter of personal preference .
2 I would assume that the marketing costs could be spread fairly evenly over the full five-year period .
3 I would assume that the County Council 's assessment of need at a hundred and twenty two hectares does take cognizance of the s the anticipated growth in housing .
4 B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B.
5 For instance , because you take A-level English , and you apply to five English courses , I do n't think you should assume that the admissions tutor thinks you want to do English .
6 You could assume that the bucks would present themselves for locking up .
7 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 . ’
8 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 .
9 We must assume that the Society only operated from 1893 to 1895 .
10 We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer .
11 As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably .
15 If specific rates refer to 5-year age groups , we must assume that the rate applies in every year of the group so that the rate derived from the fictitious figures of table 10.5 is
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ I shall not rise to the inevitable sexism which comes from the Government front bench , ’ replied Ms Armstrong , and since not even today 's siren Labour party can consider the word ‘ silly ’ to be sexist we must assume that the objection is to being described as a woman .
19 Again , one might assume that the change of position occurred without any feelings of attitude-change or dissonance .
20 So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years .
21 To keep things as simple as possible we shall assume that the quantity of money is determined by the government in accordance with the following process : where g is a constant and v t is a random , serially uncorrelated error with zero mean and constant variance .
22 In order to simplify exposition we shall assume that the level of money wages is given at W so that we are able to fix the position of the aggregate marginal cost curve in Figure 5.5(b) .
23 ( For the moment we shall assume that the public 's payments for the bonds come from their expenditure on consumption goods . )
24 Again , for simplicity we shall assume that the price level is believed to remain unchanged over the period of the contract , so we can write :
25 For purposes of exposition we shall assume that the surplus-value is divided equally between accumulation and unproductive consumption .
26 In developing our simple model , we shall assume that the demand for labour ( D L ) , which we shall define here as the number of jobs being offered by all firms in the economy , depends directly on the rate of national income ( Y ) and inversely on real labour costs ( RLC ) .
27 We would assume that the discussion , in such a case , would cease to be a discussion which appealed to primarily linguistic evidence in this piece of discourse .
28 Normally , one would assume that the particle will move on a straight line away from A. However , according to the sum over histories , it can move on any path that starts at A. It is like what happens when you place a drop of ink on a piece of blotting paper .
29 Furthermore , we will assume that the sector to which we are referring accounts for a sufficiently small part of consumer expenditure that income effects are unimportant .
30 We will assume that the date is 1 April .
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