Example sentences of "[pron] can only assume that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 My hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield has already enlarged upon the facts in the fine document which was produced in 1991 and I can only assume that they are correct .
2 I can only assume that it stemmed from wishful thinking or a misunderstanding on the part of one of the council employees or officers .
3 I can only assume that it was from his previous experience as chairman of the Greater London council in 1985-86 that he learnt all about ’ getting your friends appointed to the key jobs ’ , and that that is why he assumes that the same is happening in the civil service now .
4 ‘ You ca n't have any real scruples about our supposed affair or we would n't be working for you , so I can only assume that you 're making this personal attack for the sheer hell of it , because you once got a kick out of disapproving of me — despising me — and you 're trying to recapture the thrill of it all . ’
5 Yes well of course you can only assume that what he says is correct .
6 The annual report of the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association — published today — attacks senior management and declares : ‘ We can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . ’
7 ‘ Given senior management 's reluctance to identify the role of area directors , we can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service .
8 Much of this research has been done by TV advertising agencies and TV organizations themselves — so we can only assume that they have used it to shape their programs to appeal to that level of consciousness .
9 His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about .
10 We can only assume that it intends to gain acceptability and legitimacy within the ranks of the sold-out lackeys of the Labour Party , rather than working to organise the most exploited sections of ordinary people — women .
11 The only bureau to ‘ fail ’ our test was The Last Word — we can only assume that someone simply had a brainstorm and left all the important bits out .
12 Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims .
13 One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock .
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