Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | This arrangement can be mathematical once the play is under way ; a conductor or driver may soon assume responsibility for matching passengers to seats and the children will encounter problems of too many , not enough , empty , etc . |
| 2 | Go … " and the clients would again assume the shares were selling like hot cakes . |
| 3 | In other words , a hearer will generally assume that the producer of an utterance wants to communicate something , and has chosen the linguistic context of his utterance with a view to furthering this aim . |
| 4 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 5 | On Aug. 13 the Soviet Union responded coolly to Saddam 's " peace initiative " of the previous day , and on Aug. 17 Shevardnadze said in Moscow after talks with West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher that the Security Council could soon assume a military role which could bring a rapid resolution of the crisis ; the Security Council Military Staff Committee , he said , was the body whose task it was to co-ordinate military measures . |
| 6 | And a lot of people answering that question will just assume it 's a right angle |
| 7 | " An ambassador " , wrote an anonymous author of the early seventeenth century , " must not permit or allow anyone to challenge or in any other way offend the honour of his Prince on any subject at all " , while more than sixty years later Wicquefort could still assume that ceremonial niceties must be an essential preoccupation of any diplomat . |
| 8 | Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light , with their wires leading backwards towards the brain . |
| 9 | Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification . |
| 10 | Sampson would simply assume that he had n't put the chain on at the end of his last stay . |
| 11 | The glaistig will occasionally assume the appearance of a kind BROWNIE , showing benign tenderness to children or old women and helping farmers to tend their cattle . |
| 12 | Where the parties have reached an express agreement that the plaintiff will voluntarily assume the risk of harm and this agreement is made before the negligent act , then the defence will operate . |
| 13 | TALL buildings can sometimes assume an iconographic importance for the city they serve . |
| 14 | A God had the power to turn himself into whoever or whatever he defeated or ate , so Apollo could now assume the form of a dolphin . |
| 15 | Investors could generally assume , as they could not in 1982-84 , that most bank loans made to developers and speculators had been adequately secured and documented . |
| 16 | The viewers would just assume he 'd fallen into a cupboard and bang would go the impact of the scene . |
| 17 | The first is excluded because possession by the chargee will render the asset unusable by the company as security in favour of another creditor ; the second because registration would destroy the negotiability of the instrument ; and the third because these interests arise and disappear quite quickly and registration would be simply too burdensome and provide little new information as those dealing with charterers would normally assume the existence of such charges . |
| 18 | I suppose you 'll be telling me next that most normal people would immediately assume that you were here to discuss the state of French politics ! ’ |
| 19 | After a new client was ushered onto the market by the AE , the SAE would then assume responsibility for looking after the client 's market positions , and for obtaining future business . |
| 20 | Presumably , the speaker can also assume that , because his hearer knows , approximately , the speaker 's age , the hearer can judge the time ( i.e. forty years before and not ten years before ) of the events described . |
| 21 | Choreographers should never assume that all in the audience have sufficient knowledge of the subject , theme and ideas which are possibly understood only by an exclusive coterie of friends . |
| 22 | Although Coleman still had qualms about the misuse of media credentials , foreseeing a time when immigration officials around the world would automatically assume that any visiting journalist was a spy , it would have been hypocritical to complain . |
| 23 | The State Department would select an able adviser to assist General Hodge : this official would gradually assume direction of political affairs and would act as a ‘ tutor ’ to the Interim Legislative Assembly . |
| 24 | A disabled person living in physically unsuitable housing would therefore assume that there was no point in registering on the waiting list , unless they happened to fall into one of the categories mentioned . |
| 25 | In the heat of debate , when one side may accuse the other of not knowing what they are talking about , both sides will still assume they are talking about the same thing . |
| 26 | Poor housing can therefore assume many forms . |
| 27 | If she complains of stress incontinence but denies any urgency or urge incontinence her doctor can safely assume that she has genuine stress incontinence . |
| 28 | The main point about this example was to show that social roles which speakers of English would ordinarily assume to be alternative titles for the same individual , e.g. , " father " , " husband " , " begetter of wife 's children " , are not only distinguishable but may be distributed in quite unexpected ways . |
| 29 | The researcher will also assume a consultancy role in helping teachers develop work along antiracist lines . |
| 30 | British Airways agreed to take over Dan-Air for a nominal £1 ; the company will also assume Dan-Air 's liabilities , estimated at £35m . |