Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] not assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may not assume that you can go anywhere you like — most of the land is privately owned and actively farmed . |
| 2 | You must not assume that the examiner knows what restitutio in integrum means . |
| 3 | Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem . |
| 4 | Though people expect illness to become more frequent in old age , you should not assume that nothing can be done , but should consult your doctor if you think you have a health problem . |
| 5 | She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ . |
| 6 | But you should not assume that college teachers are all professionally-trained teachers . |
| 7 | If one big building society can fall foul of the rules , then you can not assume that any lender will get its advertising right . |
| 8 | So you can not assume anything . |
| 9 | You must state these , because you can not assume that the users of this grammar are well acquainted with such principles . |
| 10 | They 've had different syllabuses at school and masters have in fact omitted large chunks of the syllabus to get better results in the parts that they concentrate on , so you can not assume that everybody has adequate abilities . |
| 11 | We ought not to assume that our own interests will be those of our children . |
| 12 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 13 | We should not assume that this means a retreat from the world into a monastery or a desert — not at all . |
| 14 | When we read , for example , that there was ‘ war in heaven ’ ( Rev 12:7 ) we should not assume that there was some sort of cosmic version of Star Wars , or that the archangel Michael and Lucifer fought it out with spiritual light-sabres . |
| 15 | But if Sartre anticipates such later thinkers we should not assume too quickly that they have simply taken his insights further . |
| 16 | Hence , for example , in the case of the educational system , we should not assume that dominant ideologies about women necessarily give rise to uniform practices in schools and amongst teachers . |
| 17 | It may be , however , that the acceptance of dominant values is not as great as it might seem — we should not assume that actors conform because they wish to ( even if these wishes were manipulated ) . |
| 18 | However , we should not assume that a great deal has not been achieved quite spectacularly in the past few years . |
| 19 | We should not assume that because some European countries have regional government the people there want it . |
| 20 | When considering their applicability to particular organizations it is necessary to heed Clegg and Dunkerley 's warning that we should not assume that power resources will have equal utility to the members of all organizations in all situations . |
| 21 | If so , we should not assume this was a Whig victory ; the policy of using the powers of the purse to restrict the Crown 's independence was pursued not only by radical Whigs , such as Colonel John Birch and William Sacheverell , but also by a significant number of Tories , led by Clarges and Seymour . |
| 22 | Again , we should not assume that developments amongst the London Tories , at the level of corporation politics , were typical of developments amongst Tories as a whole . |
| 23 | We must not assume that any reading of any artwork is in itself permanent or natural . |
| 24 | It is important to be aware that trade unions are organisations in their own right , and we must not assume too hastily or too readily that the goals of a trade union organisation are the same as those of its members or full-time officials . |
| 25 | However , we need not assume a sinister motive for these meetings . |
| 26 | Tonson did his best , without reprinting the whole from start to finish , correcting every detail , to bring his reading text into line with theatrical fact ; but we need not assume that changes on the stage and on the page were perfectly synchronized . |
| 27 | We can not assume that what the linguist identifies as significant should correspond with aspects of language to be focused on in the teaching and learning of a language as a school subject . |
| 28 | Without accepting the necessarily and inevitably more integrative role of the party , I believe the argument is a valid one ; we can not assume an easy identity between labourism and trade unionism . |
| 29 | We can not assume , for example , that counsellees are going to be willing or able to immediately divulge the full nature of their feelings and difficulties . |
| 30 | Just because Ms Average is a cooperative rather than competitive speaker , we can not assume that Jane Smith who is sitting in front of you will not deliver the goods . |