Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] assume [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must not assume that any reading of any artwork is in itself permanent or natural . |
| 2 | — One should not assume that equal opportunities and career development do n't go together |
| 3 | Hence , for example , in the case of the educational system , we should not assume that dominant ideologies about women necessarily give rise to uniform practices in schools and amongst teachers . |
| 4 | She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most important point to make is that , as part of affirmatively assessing elders , we should never assume that unconscious processes are less important or less worthy of exploration than they are in other people . |
| 6 | " An ambassador " , wrote an anonymous author of the early seventeenth century , " must not permit or allow anyone to challenge or in any other way offend the honour of his Prince on any subject at all " , while more than sixty years later Wicquefort could still assume that ceremonial niceties must be an essential preoccupation of any diplomat . |
| 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 | Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification . |
| 9 | We will also assume that perfect segmentation has taken place ; there are no competing alignments of overlapping phonemes in the graph . |
| 10 | One can only assume that some estates and businesses were sold to his wealthy followers . |
| 11 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 12 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 13 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 14 | In short , we can not assume that higher education is a site of pure reason . |
| 15 | On the other hand , we can not assume that all people accused of Jacobite activity were guilty as charged ; some fell victim to the false allegations of professional perjurers . |
| 16 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 17 | We can not assume that these interpretations will be made in the same way in all cultures and in all languages , so understanding how interpretation proceeds in the culture of the language we are teaching is crucial if we are to help foreign learners to make their words function in the way that they intend . |
| 18 | If one big building society can fall foul of the rules , then you can not assume that any lender will get its advertising right . |
| 19 | We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception . |
| 20 | By intervening in this way , one can reasonably assume that this request can be regarded as making an exception to the general rules — implicit or explicit — of identification . |
| 21 | Malcolmson ( 1984 : 126 ) argues that ‘ an essential feature of the world Williamson is interested in [ … ] is not one in which one can simply assume that economic efficiency will win out in the end ’ . |