Example sentences of "not assume [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories . |
| 2 | Private passions are not assumed to be a universal , biologically determined category ( they are of unknown origin , not assumed to be necessarily identical across different cultures ) . |
| 3 | Private passions are not assumed to be a universal , biologically determined category ( they are of unknown origin , not assumed to be necessarily identical across different cultures ) . |
| 4 | This approach assumed a degree of consensus within the family which was not assumed to the same extent in any other social institution . |
| 5 | It is important to note that in any case this question of the essence of religion is to be debated by pupils , not assumed for them . |
| 6 | The very fact that he held the parliamentarians partially responsible for the RPF 's demise suggests that he had not assumed in June 1951 that the Rassemblement was dead . |