Example sentences of "[vb mod] assume [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 2 | Moreover , we should assume that future decisions about Unix will have to take into account what is good for Novell . |
| 3 | Ministers when they come to Committees should assume that other Ministers have read their papers and time should not be spent on an oral regurgitation of what already appears in writing in the paper . |
| 4 | A central conclusion of the report was that colleges should assume that all academic staff teaching for the Council 's degrees would ‘ undertake some definite activity falling within the various categories of research ’ that it had outlined . |
| 5 | It will be the concern of the court of the state to which the child is to be returned to minimise or eliminate this harm and , in the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary or evidence that it is beyond the powers of those courts in the circumstances of the case , the courts of this country should assume that this will be done . |
| 6 | ‘ Some products have too wide a variation to be explained by these factors and one must assume that many multi-national companies are charging what they believe the market will bear . ’ |
| 7 | In order to use the algorithm , we must assume that all edge weights are positive . |
| 8 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 9 | Let's assume that all the offspring are the same , in quality . |
| 10 | None of this had any direct relevance to the discovery of drugs , and one may assume that many pharmacologists did not follow these developments . |
| 11 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 12 | We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer , but observation statements certainly are not . |
| 13 | As the poem progresses , we might assume that contextual or latent discourse referents are less likely to be introduced , for we read and interpret in the light of what has gone before — of previous elements in the utterance . |
| 14 | One might assume that this would mean necessarily that the C. and A.G. audited all the Health Authorities . |
| 15 | If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats . |
| 16 | Gone are the days when Hull among behaviourists or Lorenz among the classical ethologists could assume that all motivational mechanisms were of the similar type . |
| 17 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 18 | One would assume that such AβEα interchain hybrids would also be present in the higher copy number transgenics reported here . |
| 19 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 20 | Naturally , one would assume that these two aspects of secondary prevention go hand in hand . |
| 21 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 22 | If only two hundred were to be seen , then the chances were that Balliol would assume that this was their full strength . |
| 23 | I shall assume that all intensional descriptions are classical . |
| 24 | And since we are familiar with Poulantzas ' rejection of voluntarism , we shall assume that this in turn is to be explained in a way that avoids treating either individuals or classes as subjects . |
| 25 | We shall assume that this deviation is a random variable , , with mean of zero and constant variance , . |
| 26 | ( There is also of course a third , distinct , possibility , that it is a daily record kept in Italian , but we shall assume that this uses Italian in the sense of Italian language — that is to say , as a noun — and is , therefore , an example of a different kind of syntactic phrase , the noun + noun combination , seen in fish tank . ) |
| 27 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 28 | In all that follows , we shall assume that these basic linguistic expressions are words , as indeed they normally are , unless we have specific reason for focusing our attention on phrases or morphemes . |
| 29 | First of all , we must delimit the form of a lexical item syntagmatically ; that is to say , we must be able to state in any sentence where the boundaries between lexical items are ( we shall assume that any well-formed sentence consists of a whole number of such units ) . |
| 30 | In this section , we shall assume that any task is described by assertions formed with predicates . |