Example sentences of "[verb] assume [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The portfolio approach does not need to assume that investment has to equal that achievable with internally generated funds , although , of course , most UK and US companies do rely extensively on retained earnings to supply funds for investment . |
| 2 | The main problem was that everyone seemed to assume that Gouzenko was an expert on every facet of Russian intelligence operations . |
| 3 | Since most foreigners know only of the Phoenix King and the pre-eminence of Eataine they tend to assume that Ulthuan is a far more homogeneous bloc than in fact it is . |
| 4 | When parallel lines are closely hatched the eye prefers to assume that light flows along them . |
| 5 | Influenced by balance theories , they have often tended to assume that ambivalence must be resolved into a cognitively unitary consonance ( see Billig , 1982a and Billig et al . , |
| 6 | But to test , for example , the assumption about item difficulty being independent of the student requires assuming that ability is unidimensional ; in other words it can not be tested ! |
| 7 | To have seen him and de Castelnau together , one might well have assumed that Pétain was the born aristocrat , the squat and rather swarthy general the peasant ; though in fact it was the reverse . |
| 8 | A generation or so ago , New Critics and Scrutineers did assume that scrupulosity and rigour were selfjustifying ends in criticism . |
| 9 | This is such a formidable list that we might be tempted to assume that research and higher education must at least be species of the same genus of activity , even if not actually identical . |
| 10 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 11 | Where an earlier generation of natural theologians had assumed that Nature would heal itself , Marsh emphasized that some acts of destruction exceeded the earth 's recuperative powers : |
| 12 | When they cut themselves , they see spots of blood and they had assumed that blood looks like that inside our bodies . |
| 13 | Paying attention to biology need not involve assuming that biology makes fixed contributions to psychology ( Hirst and Wooley 1982 ) , or even that all biological discourses are the same . |
| 14 | Another point worth stating is that early attempts at curve fitting tended to assume that plant growth was determined by a single autocatalytic chemical reaction , an over-simplification . |
| 15 | This is an important point to make , since many theoretical positions both before and after the work of Grice have assumed that omniscience in analysis is a possible option , and analyses are produced that claim to speak for the general reader while also using biographical information on the author from an asserted privileged position ( much of the methodology and work of F.R. Leavis ( e.g. 1936 , 1967 ) and his followers is characterised by this approach ) . |
| 16 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |
| 17 | We have assumed that stylistics investigates the relation between the writer 's artistic achievement , and how it is achieved through language . |