Example sentences of "[adv] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification . |
| 2 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
| 3 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 4 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 5 | I suggested a second or so ago that the ordinary reader , unsure of what to make of the shifting realities of Joyce 's writing , might defensively assume that no such hesitations would trouble the experienced reader , but that is far from being a homogeneous class . |
| 6 | One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency . |
| 7 | The police would not necessarily assume that the bones in the graveyard were of people who had lived at Wyvis Hall , nor that those who had brought about their deaths had lived there . |
| 8 | A different reader will spot them quickly , and newspapers and publishers employ people one of whose jobs it is to pick out the " literals " ( slips ) made by writers , typists and typesetters : readers do not necessarily assume that the editor or journalist ca n't spell if they find a printing error . |
| 9 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 10 | The parents are going to naturally assume that you 're a if you 're at level five at one stage |
| 11 | You say , ‘ we will naturally assume that the party is travelling together ’ . |
| 12 | Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light , with their wires leading backwards towards the brain . |
| 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 . |
| 14 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 15 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 18 | I can only assume that this continuing violence to musical instruments is being pursued in the interests of ‘ entertaining ’ the majority of the audience ( who are non-musicians ) . |
| 19 | We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold . |
| 20 | One can only assume that Clinton means well . |
| 21 | One can only assume that , at least for a while , they were able to survive on fully aquatic prey , such as fishes . |
| 22 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect . |
| 25 | One can only assume that some estates and businesses were sold to his wealthy followers . |
| 26 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 27 | I can only assume that it stemmed from wishful thinking or a misunderstanding on the part of one of the council employees or officers . |
| 28 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |