Example sentences of "take it that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then I think you must take it that you do know . ’
2 So one may take it that everyone receives at least a smattering ; and more flexible A-level and university courses make it possible for people to combine more advanced science with arts subjects in a way that was virtually impossible in my day .
3 So we can take it that Mick is none too keen on an open door policy at 10 Records ?
4 Do I take it that I 'm invited , Mistress Fenemore ? ’
5 ( Let us take it that he is right in this . )
6 We may take it that the utilitarian in him could accept with Ricardo 's labour theory of value his hostility to landlords , who might be regarded as unproductive and bone-idle , and share with him a reluctance to extend that hostility to master-manufacturers .
7 ( Quinton , 1973 , pp. 46–53 ) More precisely , with respect to the spatiality , since we wish to exclude points , lines , and two-dimensional surfaces , we shall take it that the physical occupies a continuous three-dimensional region of space-that it is voluminous or geometrically solid .
8 I am a physician , I may say , and if you have not heard as much , Prince Rainbow , you may take it that you soon will , from another quarter .
9 If , by contextual manipulation , we can reduce the apparent oddness , or at least cause it to be perceived as communicatively appropriate , then we can take it that we are dealing with a semantic deviance ( although the involvement of grammatical elements can not be ruled out ) .
10 From the fairly casual manner of Nicholls ' wording and his failure to mention what he had recommended , we may take it that , at least so far as he was concerned , the problem of the status of emigres holding non-Soviet passports had not at this stage been presented as of overwhelming importance or urgency .
11 You can work on a presumption , a prebonderance of probabilities or whatever , but I mean what you can not do is take it that it 's absolutely fact that that is going to happen .
12 You ca n't take it that it is you have to draw your scale diagram .
13 It is true that even then he might still be acting in the course of his employment , but we must take it that this curious piece of metaphysics exempts the employer from vicarious liability for this particular tort .
14 And since it obviously has n't been doing so , we can take it that we are not held within un- , sub- or supernatural forces after all ; in all probability , that is .
15 Can I take it that if
16 ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked .
17 As the Temple was desecrated , according to the most probable chronology , about December 1 67 and reconsecrated about December 164 , we must take it that the correct interpretation of Daniel is the latter , amounting to about three years , which is in rough agreement with the " time , times and half a time " of the previous chapter .
18 ‘ I think we can take it that a representative of the Security Service was regarded as , ahh , fundamental . ’
19 Do I take it that I 'm to be redeemed from that particular fate ?
20 He watched her guardedly for a moment , then he said , ‘ Do I take it that you 're referring to Elise ? ’
21 If that is the average , we can take it that many will take longer than that .
22 On the basis of that argument , can we take it that the boundary review that will be undertaken will now be on geographical location rather than population distribution ?
23 In the light of the arguments which have been put forward about the size of the constituency can we take it that there has been a change in Government principle on the boundary reorganisation ?
24 We shall take it that their surface structure is : ( 44 ) This may at first make them seem somewhat analogous to the predicate qualifiers , except that the noun phrase beyond the mediating verb is here the subject of the clause rather than the object as with the predicate qualifiers , and it is to the entity of this noun phrase that the property of the adjective applies .
25 I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has .
26 Well now , you 've had the Minutes of the last A G M meeting , that blue copy , and may I take it that er you accept those , and we can agree that they are accepted .
27 But I think I can take it that I must have been a little — er — unsteady with my actions .
28 But the Aga Khan 's solicitor , Matthew McCloy , said yesterday : ‘ You can take it that it is not His Highness 's present intention to appeal to the House of Lords . ’
29 Do we take it that that 's complete because if you look there I mean there 's , there 's nothing which we 've asked earlier anyway .
30 I said look Neil you can drive , but let's not let's not take it that I 'm saying that you must drive let's go into the question of why you 're making a mess of it at this time and we , oh honestly Brenda if I 've got black circles under my eyes do not be surprised because , of course , this all goes back to his absolutely , appallingly , stupid mother !
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