Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [adv] assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One must never assume that an elder who can not discuss personal desires does not need an environment in which such desires can crystallize and find expression . |
| 3 | One might easily assume that it has always been an important road . |
| 4 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 5 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 6 | Both dramatic playing and performance use dramatic metaphors , abstractions which immediately qualify the kind , intensity and degree of emotional response — one can reasonably assume that neither the actor on stage nor the child in the classroom is actually going to experience murderous intent , overwhelming grief , spiritual ecstasy or sexual arousal during the drama experience . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Malcolmson ( 1984 : 126 ) argues that ‘ an essential feature of the world Williamson is interested in [ … ] is not one in which one can simply assume that economic efficiency will win out in the end ’ . |
| 9 | One can only assume that your club committee have the welfare of both the fishery and your fish at heart which we should not knock . |
| 10 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 11 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 12 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 13 | It could not have been for lack of qualifications , for Moira had served seven years on the BBC 's General Advisory Council and four years as a director of Border Television ; so one can only assume it was because of my Liberal Party connections . |
| 14 | As for President elect Clinton 's oblique references to the asylum laws , one can only assume his administration will have no intention of interfering with the due processes of law in the US . |
| 15 | One can only assume that Clinton means well . |
| 16 | One can only assume that , at least for a while , they were able to survive on fully aquatic prey , such as fishes . |
| 17 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 18 | Considering the wretchedness for which these floating prisons later became infamous it was an unhappy endorsement and one can only assume that his short-term view of a particular problem was allowed to obscure his longer term aims . |
| 19 | An intensely private man , one can only assume the attractions of the year-round treadmill are wearing thin . |
| 20 | One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect . |
| 21 | One can only assume that some estates and businesses were sold to his wealthy followers . |
| 22 | One can only assume the Government had not read the steady stream of reports from both the Chief Inspector of Prisons and various prison boards of visitors during the 1980s . |
| 23 | One can only assume that , if the Bill had been introduced 70 or 80 years ago , the House would have been rather more crowded than today . |
| 24 | One can only assume that this is another example of the popular press indulging in unwarranted smears , this time against the Mission Impossible Party of Labour and the loyal supporters of Darlington FC . |
| 25 | Besides , while the financial implications of the defeat by England have never been revealed , one can safely assume that the loss has deprived the French players of a fair amount of endorsements and sponsorship . |
| 26 | One can therefore assume that the impressions will be embedded in the brain in nonsensical recollections quite unconnected with the structure of the environment ’ . |