Example sentences of "[vb mod] only presume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 2 | Maybe the Russians were screening something from him ; he could only presume that they were . |
| 3 | I could only presume that as this was April they were concerned with spawning and were only doing all the strange things that other species do when pre-occupied with that activity . |
| 4 | One can only presume that another , more competitive product was needed to counter the twin stem camming devices made by Hugh Banner and Faces . |
| 5 | They give the appearance of a ‘ setting sun ’ under the D string and , as everything else appears to line up okay , I can only presume that the markers themselves are off-centre . |
| 6 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 7 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
| 8 | The crypts were small , too small to have needed a central pillar to support the ceiling , so we can only presume that the pillar had a symbolic significance to the Minoans ( Plate 18 ) . |