Example sentences of "[modal v] only presume that " in BNC.
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1 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
2 | Maybe the Russians were screening something from him ; he could only presume that they were . |
3 | I could only presume that as this was April they were concerned with spawning and were only doing all the strange things that other species do when pre-occupied with that activity . |
4 | One can only presume that another , more competitive product was needed to counter the twin stem camming devices made by Hugh Banner and Faces . |
5 | They give the appearance of a ‘ setting sun ’ under the D string and , as everything else appears to line up okay , I can only presume that the markers themselves are off-centre . |
6 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
7 | Moser ( 1978 ) typically deals with the way information is broken down in interpretation from sentences and context into meaning , and one can only presume that she proposes a similar process for the reconstruction of the message in the second language . |
8 | The crypts were small , too small to have needed a central pillar to support the ceiling , so we can only presume that the pillar had a symbolic significance to the Minoans ( Plate 18 ) . |