Example sentences of "[adv] assume [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only assume that this puppy 's there so Olympic hosts Spain at least get a sniff at a medal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is normally assumed that this reconstruction will not result in long-term unemployment of resources , or worse , permanent under-utilisation of resources in some sectors . |
| 4 | I had always assumed that this song was either fictional or referred to events long ago , and Ricks ' talk contained nothing to contradict this . |
| 5 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |
| 6 | The sense of urgency conveyed by the ‘ Look out ’ indicates the expectation that the pram , complete with baby , will fall over the cliff and perhaps be dashed on the rocks beneath and it is further assumed that this will be-deleterious for the baby . |
| 7 | He would watch the movements of birds for hours through his binoculars without ever assuming that this activity could be interesting to other people , without ever promoting it as a topic of conversation . |
| 8 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |
| 9 | 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 . |