Example sentences of "[pron] assume that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 2 | I assume that it matters to your investigation ? ’ |
| 3 | I assume that it contains among other things the letters I have sent to him . |
| 4 | I assume that it reads . |
| 5 | I assume that he has the information in front of him . |
| 6 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 7 | Well she says Michael has n't rung so she said I assume that he 's coming cos if he 's going to be late , if he 's anywhere reasonable |
| 8 | Of course , I assume that you have feelings similar to mine , and I also assume that animals which are reasonably like us have feelings that are like ours . |
| 9 | I assume that you have already made some sort of shortlist from the names supplied ? |
| 10 | Then I assume that you withdraw your objection . |
| 11 | Eight point two million customers of which I assume that you are some of those . |
| 12 | ‘ I assume that you 're in the picture , John ? ’ |
| 13 | I assume that you 've left . |
| 14 | Now if you assume that they were paid somewhere between a half-day allowance and a full-day allowance , you 're probably looking at somewhere up towards fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 15 | what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ? |
| 16 | Probabilities being what they are , you are most likely to be right in assessing frame size if you assume that you are medium-framed . |
| 17 | ‘ And you assume that I do , ’ he stated angrily . |
| 18 | Questions like this may be asked by people who assume that you have the same sort of lifestyle as they do , or who are clumsily trying to find out whether you do . |
| 19 | With children , the presupposition is that we take the responsibility until they show us that they want it ; with adults we assume that they take the responsibility unless they show us that they do n't . |
| 20 | There are probably about 50 stars within radio range if we assume that they have had radio technology for only as long as we have . |
| 21 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 22 | If the order does n't go ahead we assume that we will dispose of the stock . |
| 23 | This point helps to explain why there do not appear to have been many actual dismissals for pilferage ( we assume that we would have been told if there had been an abnormally high incidence of these ) , but we would still have expected there to be some if pilferage has been common , particularly since store security is not under Fred 's control . |
| 24 | If we assume that we are not the proprietors but the trustees of this world and that we have a deed of covenant to honour , this at once introduces certain absolutes into economic life and certain limits on the exercise of freedom . |
| 25 | Our existing residents will continue to get social security funding for their rent and we assume that we will still get grants from the health authority and social services for our running costs . |
| 26 | Again we assume that we are still talking about the same man , that he has returned home to the location where the ‘ living room ’ we first met was located . |
| 27 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 28 | In a liberal society we assume that it can not be objectively defined . |
| 29 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 30 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |