Example sentences of "can [adv] assume that " in BNC.
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| 31 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | The annual report of the Scottish Prison Officers ' Association — published today — attacks senior management and declares : ‘ We can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Given senior management 's reluctance to identify the role of area directors , we can only assume that their tactic is to try to negate the role of trade unions within the service . |
| 36 | Yes well of course you can only assume that what he says is correct . |
| 37 | these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there . |
| 38 | We can thus assume that |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 43 | Presumably , the speaker can also assume that , because his hearer knows , approximately , the speaker 's age , the hearer can judge the time ( i.e. forty years before and not ten years before ) of the events described . |
| 44 | But we can confidently assume that there are no languages where part of an M-tense system is not realized somewhere in time-adverbials or the like , not to mention the implicit assumption of M-present if no further specification is provided ( Lyons , 1977a : 686 ) . |
| 45 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 46 | 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 ’ . |
| 47 | Perhaps , when people have expressed negative views of Dustin 's behaviour and personality , we can charitably assume that his Döppelgänger , Harvey Pepper , has been at work again . |
| 48 | One can therefore assume that the impressions will be embedded in the brain in nonsensical recollections quite unconnected with the structure of the environment ’ . |
| 49 | I think we can safely assume that the statuette was washed and wiped clean after the event . ’ |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | And when you eventually decide what time to travel , you can safely assume that BR is n't responsible for your train being late — blame the leaves on the track — or for the lack of pickle in your sandwiches — write to Clement Freud . |
| 52 | If she complains of stress incontinence but denies any urgency or urge incontinence her doctor can safely assume that she has genuine stress incontinence . |
| 53 | As the pitch patterns were presumably dictated by Elgar 's ‘ secret ’ melody , we can safely assume that his invention , and indeed the beauty of his creation , lay almost entirely in his construction . |