Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency . |
| 2 | The police would not necessarily assume that the bones in the graveyard were of people who had lived at Wyvis Hall , nor that those who had brought about their deaths had lived there . |
| 3 | A different reader will spot them quickly , and newspapers and publishers employ people one of whose jobs it is to pick out the " literals " ( slips ) made by writers , typists and typesetters : readers do not necessarily assume that the editor or journalist ca n't spell if they find a printing error . |
| 4 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 5 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 6 | We can not merely assume that our minds are so filled , but this must be treated as an object for empirical enquiry . |
| 7 | One needs a Porter-style analysis to discover exactly what type of investment and competitive strategy is needed to achieve or maintain market share or competitive position ; one can not just assume that any type of investment in capacity in areas of high market share will lead to future success . |
| 8 | What we have to do , we have to make the mental leap into a very different world in which witchcraft and dreams and superstitions and so on are mingling together and we must make that effort , and not just assume that somehow it 's William Gladstone who happens to be dressed up in Oliver Cromwell 's clothes . |
| 9 | These are strategic alternatives which would capitalize on George and Marie 's strengths and minimize their weaknesses : it is the business of a case study answer to identify these alternatives and not just to assume that the proprietors have to go on as they started . |
| 10 | However , there are examples which show that we can not always assume that a property word will have a referential locus . |
| 11 | Again , it is likely that women today , and even more so in the future , will not automatically assume that it is their place to provide care when this is required . ’ |
| 12 | No such assumption can be made with non-experimental data ; if we compare non-experimental groups which vary on X , we can not automatically assume that they are alike in other respects . |
| 13 | However , I should not automatically assume that all these pieces represent a choral distillation of the ‘ green pastures and meadows ’ style of English composition . |
| 14 | Unlike incremental/line-item budgeting , ZBB does not automatically assume that existing programmes will continue in succeeding years . |
| 15 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 16 | We do not suggest that discourse analysts should spend their time looking for potential alternative meanings in what speakers say in a conversation , but we do suggest that the analyst should not simply assume that there is a single , static ‘ topic of conversation ’ in any conversational fragment . |
| 17 | Since we can not simply assume that the results from one bilingual setting must apply to all others too , we shall study two widely differing groups of bilingual children in the UK . |
| 18 | My argument does not even assume that it was a dominant way of thinking in earlier periods . |
| 19 | But we can not yet assume that Froggy Davies was murdered by , or on behalf of , either Martinez , Jefferson or Harley . |
| 20 | Despite the safeguards in the Police and Crime Evidence Act 1984 in England , one can not complacently assume that all is well or at least that the service given by police surgeons could not be improved . |
| 21 | It is not therefore assumed that people have a' consciousness ' ( false or otherwise ) or a system or knowledge about the outside world , but only that they have a more or less adequate collection of competences in dealing with particular instances of it . |
| 22 | They can not therefore assume that all genetically engineered products are dangerous unless proven otherwise . |
| 23 | As regards persons who can safely be classified as employees , their employers can not safely assume that they will own the copyright in everything produced by those employees . |
| 24 | I think we do have to explain the , the re-establishment of authoritarian forms of government more carefully , we ca n't just assume that there 's a kind of almost instinctive hankering after it among the mass of the population because I 'm just not convinced by that at all . |
| 25 | Yes , it 's very important to remember that both in , from this direct point of view and from Freud 's findings , you should n't just assume that it was a watertight compartment between two areas , as it were . |
| 26 | Actually , er , as a point , if you find a client who goes hand-gliding , who goes stock car racing , do n't always assume that they 're going to be rated , you just submit it to the underwriters , and they make their own decision . |
| 27 | Do n't automatically assume that someone displaying one or more of them is misusing alcohol , but if the problem persists , you should certainly investigate whether alcohol is the cause . |
| 28 | When it comes to dampness , all is not always what it seems , so do n't automatically assume that a damp patch is due to a defective damp-proof course ( dpc ) . |
| 29 | • If you 're buying fish which are normally kept in brackish conditions , such as Mollies , Puffers and some Gobies , do n't automatically assume that your dealer is stocking them with added salt . |