Example sentences of "[adv] assume that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They merely assumed that inhibition generates the incest taboo without pointing to any behavioural mechanism that could translate one into the other . |
| 3 | One can only assume that Clinton means well . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the binomial model to be valid we need only assume that investors prefer more wealth to less wealth ( see Chapter 2 ) so that , given the opportunity , they will engage in arbitrage , and secondly that investors have the ability to construct the risk-free hedge . |
| 6 | The vagueness of some of the " Activities " tends to cause recurring difficulty , and I can only assume that Durant and Fabb have their own ways of making them work . |
| 7 | Since they do n't even know who the councillors are , I can only assume that North Tyneside is being victimised through ignorance and dogma . |
| 8 | I can only assume that manufacturers who do n't properly configure the machines they sell are either lazy or careless . |
| 9 | And tomorrow , one hoped , he would merely assume that Nicholas had made a pettish departure and was sulking somewhere , awaiting apology or forgiveness . |
| 10 | Left-inclined critics argue that pluralists ignore the more fundamental question of who actually benefits from public-policy outcomes and wrongly assume that participation is power . |
| 11 | I was n't naive enough to expect the goodies to win every time , but over the long-haul , and certainly in the last reel , I sort of weakly , vaguely , wetly assumed that things would come right . |
| 12 | A draw could suffice for Barcelona , but only assuming that Sparta Prague do not beat Dynamo by four goals or more in Kiev . |
| 13 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 14 | It was a race which highlighted his incredible distance running ability , and the TV and newspaper press naturally assumed that Zarei was an athlete dedicated to winning and record breaking , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 15 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 16 | Do n't misunderstand me , I did n't think the city would be backward , I just assumed that carriages would be as popular with tourists in London as they are , say in New York . |
| 17 | Do n't misunderstand me , I did n't think the city would be backward , I just assumed that carriages would be as popular with tourists in London as they are , say in New York . |
| 18 | Increasingly El Al finds it can no longer assume that people will choose to fly with it just because it is a Jewish airline . |
| 19 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
| 20 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 21 | We generally assume that stress falls on DO when used for emphasis , as in I did see him . |
| 22 | It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells . |
| 23 | When the Liberals returned to power in 1892 , it was generally assumed that Ellis would receive government office . |
| 24 | It was generally assumed that Chamberlain would prefer to sacrifice imperial interests in a compromise with Hitler , than to join the USSR in an anti-fascist alliance . |
| 25 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 26 | However , it is generally assumed that rug-weaving was brought into China , probably from Turkestan or Mongolia , some time before the reign of Emperor K'ang Hsi ( 1661–1722 ) , a noted patron of the arts who may well have encouraged its assimilation into Chinese artistic life . |
| 27 | It was generally assumed that deep-ploughing , straw burning , fertilisers or sprays might be the cause of ash decline in arable areas , but no detailed chemical and ecological investigation was made . |
| 28 | It is generally assumed that pus-cells in the urethra are synonymous with infection and the pus-cell is treated vigorously from Bath to Bangkok and from Memphis to Madras as if it were an infectious organism itself . |
| 29 | So they grow up just assuming that whites are the goodies and blacks are the bad dies and pass the same stereotypes onto their children . |
| 30 | Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that listing patients ' problems precludes inclusion of psychiatric diagnosis . |