Example sentences of "if [pron] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probabilities being what they are , you are most likely to be right in assessing frame size if you assume that you are medium-framed . |
| 2 | Now if you assume that they were paid somewhere between a half-day allowance and a full-day allowance , you 're probably looking at somewhere up towards fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 3 | If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent . |
| 4 | Right , now if you do n't interact right you 're not gon na get a result and if the customer does not interact with you , then you 're not gon na get a result , right , now if you assume that as you 're working your way through that appointment that your enthusiasm is passing across to the customer or anybody else who is in the room , right , right , but through that interaction right you 're working towards a result , now if you go and come out of that office , about his , with a result , you 'll know you 'll know what you 're getting next week or next month you got ta I mean the customer 's got ta be at the |
| 5 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 6 | To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise . |
| 7 | If we assume that for various reasons promotion within six months is not possible , all or some of the interests might be met in alternative ways . |
| 8 | If we assume that ducks peek randomly , briefly and independently of each other then the probability of the flock detecting a randomly attacking cat is given by P = 1 — e where n is the flock size . |
| 9 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
| 10 | If we assume that we are not the proprietors but the trustees of this world and that we have a deed of covenant to honour , this at once introduces certain absolutes into economic life and certain limits on the exercise of freedom . |
| 11 | A further mystery is this : if we assume that the motive for building the monuments was a mixture of religion and astronomy , which way round did the process operate ? |
| 12 | Thus , even if we assume that a significant proportion are well supported either by relatives or by services purchased with their own money , it is highly probable that personal social services see only the tip of an iceberg of unmet needs . |
| 13 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 14 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |
| 15 | If we assume that the relative risk is well approximated by the odds ratio , the percentage of cases that could be attributable to this genotype was 8% in the whole population and 35% in the low-risk group . |
| 16 | If we assume that there is an additional broadscale SNR emission filling the 44'x32' shell and take the 45Jy of source KOM43 as the flux at 408MHz , we have . |
| 17 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 18 | But if we assume that such an appeal can be successfully made on the economic front , this strategy needs to be knitted in with a range of other policies that appeal to altruism as well as self-interest . |
| 19 | If we assume that these vehicles have an operational life of five years , and that 10 per cent is an agreed discount rate , then this scheme should produce benefits in net present value terms of approximately £2.8 million . |
| 20 | For if we assume that there is much in prisons that will not bear being exposed ( and if not , why keep it secret ? ) then opening up the prison is likely to decrease the legitimacy of the system . |
| 21 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 22 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |
| 23 | If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations . |
| 24 | If we assume that you are writing on the right-hand page of an examination book or on loose examination sheets , bound at the top left-hand corner , then the identifying number of the question should be large so that it is easily seen and should be at the top right-hand corner . |
| 25 | It will take us even further if we assume that the dependence of effects on causes is smooth . |
| 26 | If we assume that the marketing concept is upheld in a particular organization , then the key objectives of its marketing department could be as follows : |
| 27 | This pattern of latencies can be explained if we assume that when a subordinate clause appears before its main clause syntactic information about the subordinate clause needs to be retained until the main clause has been heard . |
| 28 | If we assume that accountants play a passive role in this , namely that they provide only what is expressly requested , then we build our accounting theory on that . |
| 29 | However , if we assume that accountants also have an educational role , we might add to our definitions , to include potential users and potential users ' needs . |
| 30 | Even if we assume that seasonal usage is constant but prices increase by 10 per cent p.a. , we produce a difference : |