Example sentences of "may [adv] assume " in BNC.
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1 | Simple denial — We see the tramps and drop-outs and may wrongly assume that they are necessarily addicted to alcohol or drugs . |
2 | This arrangement can be mathematical once the play is under way ; a conductor or driver may soon assume responsibility for matching passengers to seats and the children will encounter problems of too many , not enough , empty , etc . |
3 | We may generously assume that Hippel did not really believe what he said , but was merely putting a rhetorical flourish on a widely-accepted piece of wisdom . |
4 | If no double indicator is used the local historian may usually assume that seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century documents dated up to 1752 use the Annunciation method . |
5 | About two million acres of waste have been enclosed by act since 1700 , so that we may reasonably assume that at the beginning of the eighteenth century there were about seven million acres of ‘ waste ’ all told rather than the ten million estimated by Gregory King . |
6 | We may reasonably assume from Franco 's portly appearance throughout the " hungry years " that dolphin sandwiches and low-quality fish did not constitute his staple diet . |
7 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
8 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
9 | In the light of these new data , we can assume this to be correct ; we may also assume that the extant Hotteterre flutes were made in Martin 's workshop . |
10 | It is not obvious whether there are any other independent aspects of the syntactic structure which may influence the question whether a minor property qualifies another property or " passes through " it to reach a referential locus ; we may provisionally assume that the nature of the individual lexical items provides the primary constraint on whether a property qualifying another property finds the latter to be permeable or not . |
11 | We may become more like them in our styles and habits ; we may begin to look at our children as our parents looked at us ; we may even assume that we will die at the age at which they died , and of the same disease or in the same way . |
12 | One is that academic research should pluck the fruits of the contemporary political agenda and lend credibility to vogue and vague notions that may fleetingly assume a high profile , reify concepts that are of the moment and endow them with the status of real analytical phenomena . |
13 | … we may safely assume that there exists some universal semantics of literature , comprehending the themes which are to be met with always and everywhere and which are limited in number ; their transformations and combinations produce the apparent multitude of literary themes . |
14 | As we lower him into his pauper 's grave , we may safely assume that he does not feel seriously deprived at having to miss the Rumbelow 's Cup final or the Pilkington Glass European Badminton Championships . |
15 | We may safely assume , however , that the creation of joint boards will not enhance local accountability . |