Example sentences of "[adv] assume that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What I 'm saying is , you always assume that that is people 's er albeit , which it is obviously is n't it ? |
| 32 | First , although it was always assumed that many from the older urban cores would be rehoused in the new towns , early evidence ( Heraud , 1966 ) shows that it tended to be the better-housed suburbanites who moved , few from the inner cities even knowing of the programme . |
| 33 | I I 've always assumed that that meant that it would be such a tremendous lever for the enemy to hold someone like that . |
| 34 | I 've always assumed that that was it , that erm , I do n't know . |
| 35 | It was always assumed that Urban Programme funding would represent only a proportion of total expenditure in the Partnerships — most would come through a diversion of mainstream budgets to the benefit of the older urban cores . |
| 36 | However , I have always assumed that public nuisance was primarily concerned with the effect of the act complained of as opposed to its inherent lawfulness or unlawfulness . |
| 37 | Henry had always assumed that this was due , on her part , to an entirely natural physical repugnance for him ; she moved away from him as one might move away from a bad smell or a dangerous horse . |
| 38 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 39 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 40 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 41 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 42 | It was further assumed that passive negative sentences were constructed by the application of two transformational rules ( passive and negative ) . |
| 43 | The sense of urgency conveyed by the ‘ Look out ’ indicates the expectation that the pram , complete with baby , will fall over the cliff and perhaps be dashed on the rocks beneath and it is further assumed that this will be-deleterious for the baby . |
| 44 | For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways . |
| 45 | It is usually assumed that this is a deficiency in the enzymes ( see p 18 ) that detoxify foreign chemicals . |
| 46 | He would watch the movements of birds for hours through his binoculars without ever assuming that this activity could be interesting to other people , without ever promoting it as a topic of conversation . |
| 47 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 48 | Unlike incremental/line-item budgeting , ZBB does not automatically assume that existing programmes will continue in succeeding years . |
| 49 | However , I should not automatically assume that all these pieces represent a choral distillation of the ‘ green pastures and meadows ’ style of English composition . |
| 50 | But to automatically assume that this is the woman 's role when other choices are available or when the task can be shared is n't fair and is certainly a point of discussion . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | This theory was elaborated at length by Marx for capitalism but he also assumed that similar phenomena would occur in non-capitalist systems . |
| 53 | In the later interviews it is only when grandparents were not known directly that there is no significant memory of them , and we can reasonably assume that this was also the commonest reason for lack of memory in the first set . |
| 54 | By intervening in this way , one can reasonably assume that this request can be regarded as making an exception to the general rules — implicit or explicit — of identification . |
| 55 | We might reasonably assume that some general categories are universal ( joke , perhaps , and song ) , that others are shared between cultures which are close to each other in social history or organization ( bank statement , holy Koranic text , political street slogan , Christmas card ) . |
| 56 | Option two — investing the trust fund in real assets instead of government paper — also assumes that honest book-keeping will embarrass politicians into spending less . |
| 57 | We will also assume that perfect segmentation has taken place ; there are no competing alignments of overlapping phonemes in the graph . |
| 58 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
| 59 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |
| 60 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |