Example sentences of "we may suppose " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be sure , both of these cantos are special cases — as was , we may suppose , the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley , written many years before . |
| 2 | Every note , every school report , every passing wheeze of the P'daytabird is here ; and since , by a strange series of chances , the Lewis Papers now reside in an air-conditioned cavern in the suburbs of Chicago , we may suppose that they will survive for ever , perhaps long after Oxford and Ulster have been lost to sight . |
| 3 | Percifull died in nine days in November 1733 and Dr John Martyn 's twins , John and Eulalia , died within a year of their baptism in 1737 , there appear to have been no such tragedies in the Miller family and we may suppose these were their only three children . |
| 4 | We may suppose that it originally stood in a niche . |
| 5 | As usual it was the forerunner of a series of related drugs , and we may suppose Sternbach was allowed to withdraw his promise not to burden the pharmacologists . |
| 6 | Whatever else we may suppose him to be , this pure life , the ineffable and incomprehensible good , is Beatitude . |
| 7 | At 26 , then , young William Charles ( 'Call me Charles … ' ) had magically catapulted himself into the lower echelons of the Establishment — all achieved , we may suppose , with the help of a good head for business , a degree of energy and flamboyance and an ingratiating style with customers , especially ladies ? |
| 8 | Quite an impressive sight , we may suppose , as she pitched and tossed in full sail across the Atlantic with fifteen or so mariners on board . |
| 9 | There was a special , elaborately canopied seat high on the stern , which we may suppose was intended for the ship 's captain , and a row of twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship . |
| 10 | We may suppose that we are mistaken on this occasion in taking it that all the ten types of conditions do obtain . |
| 11 | We may suppose , differently , that our prior thorough understanding of the ordinary operation of the wipers was not thorough enough . |
| 12 | More likely , we may suppose that we have not arrived at an exact specification of one or more of the ten . |
| 13 | Although we know nothing of her education , she writes that the Countess was ‘ directed ’ by a mother famed for her furtherance of Protestant and humanist learning , Catharine Bertie , dowager Duchess of Suffolk [ q.v. ] , and we may suppose that more than usual attention was paid to her reading . |
| 14 | The French and Spanish critics rarely seem to have firm convictions about matters of performance practice ( although they usually feel strongly about the character and quality of the performance ) , and we may suppose that they would regard such convictions as an impediment to the essentially journalistic nature of their enterprise . |