Example sentences of "[adv] assume that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light , with their wires leading backwards towards the brain . |
| 5 | You say , ‘ we will naturally assume that the party is travelling together ’ . |
| 6 | I can only assume that the crew of this barge were new to boating as their attempt to get by the bridge was reminiscent of ’ Game for a Laugh ’ . |
| 7 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 8 | It was improbable in the extreme that Brian 's sterling qualities had come to the notice of the Comptroller of the Household , and she could only assume that the summons had been the consequence of her father 's having been an RA . |
| 9 | I can only assume that the words were left out because an assurance ’ vigorously ’ to continue ’ fighting crime ’ would have raised only a horse laugh when offered by a Government with a record of this Government on this subject . |
| 10 | It is not the Commission 's policy to disclose the reasons for its decisions , and I can only assume that the Commission prefer the Refreshment Department 's current practices , which were designed to promote healthy and nutritious food in the House . |
| 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 farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 13 | I can only assume that the NI went to press before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait for this important factor to have been omitted . |
| 14 | People naturally assume that a contractor employed by the Housing Executive is the firm to get , but then find that the contractor is not warranted . |
| 15 | These all assume that the manager knows what is going on inside the mind of the employee . |
| 16 | For example statements B , D and E all assume that the outcomes of ‘ race relations ’ are explicable at a micro-level , in terms of the intrinsic propensities of particular individuals or groups : working-class children or parents ( B ) , capitalists ( D ) or white residents or policemen ( E ) . |
| 17 | It is apparently assumed that the contents of current affairs programmes can be neatly listed in three columns , headed respectively Favourable to Us , Favourable to Them and Neutral . |
| 18 | I had foolishly assumed that the opportunity would be taken to eliminate a particularly hazardous S-bend and install a roundabout in its place thus easing the flow of the many cars , buses and lorries which use the road . |
| 19 | The women were on the whole surprised at the question , apparently assuming that a dispersal of concentration is intrinsic to housework . |
| 20 | In ( a ) we shall simplistically assume that the referents of I and Adam are fixed by spatio-temporal co-ordinates . |
| 21 | The above.discussion rather assumes that the Parliament is a permanent , enduring feature of our constitution . |
| 22 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
| 23 | Would buyers not assume that a valuation based partly on an expert test implied endorsement of that test by the surveyor ? |
| 24 | One should not assume that the decisions of working-class families would be substantially affected by new methods of birth control or by new ideas . |
| 25 | In other words , in this case , we can not assume that the position in 1974 represented inter-generational equity . |
| 26 | You must state these , because you can not assume that the users of this grammar are well acquainted with such principles . |
| 27 | The way of obtaining C outlined above does not assume that the Moon is in hydrostatic equilibrium , which is just as well because it is not . |
| 28 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 29 | If we are to understand the significance of subject specialization , then we must take the choices made by women seriously : we can not assume that the student who chooses physical science is somehow ‘ right ’ while the student who chooses the humanities is somehow ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 30 | You must not assume that the examiner knows what restitutio in integrum means . |