Example sentences of "we [modal v] assume that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We must assume that the Society only operated from 1893 to 1895 . |
| 4 | We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer . |
| 5 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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) . |
| 16 | ( For the moment we shall assume that the public 's payments for the bonds come from their expenditure on consumption goods . ) |
| 17 | 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 : |
| 18 | For purposes of exposition we shall assume that the surplus-value is divided equally between accumulation and unproductive consumption . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We will assume that the date is 1 April . |
| 23 | We will assume that the evaluation of every occam expression yields a value ( even though it may contain division by zero or an uninitialised identifier ) . |
| 24 | We will assume that the sum converges and define . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |