Example sentences of "[noun] assume that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The MEC assumes that all students will continue for honours , if eligible , unless informed otherwise by the student .
2 Because Gilligan assumes that rational subjects are the receptacles of moral values , she underestimates the extent to which the irrational strength of gender continues to influence the values she is trying to recast as simply ‘ human ’ .
3 The plan suggests that it would be a delusion to assume that these immigrants would shed their values for Shetland ones .
4 Analysts like Mulvey and De Lauretis assume that all forms of cinema position the spectator through his/her investment of psychic energy in films .
5 The expectations hypothesis assumes that forward rates are equal to expected future spot rates ; in other words , where E ( ) is the expectations operator for the current period .
6 For years , researchers assumed that these preferences were learned , and that men simply thought it was more manly to choose meat over ‘ wimpy ’ treats such as cream cakes and pastries .
7 The exchange assumed that 150,000 tonnes of cocoa must be bought for delivery to the holders of long positions .
8 Several of the earliest proponents of intelligence testing assumed that such tests would show substantial differences in intelligence between races .
9 The programme planners assumed that most women 's brains came out with the baby .
10 It is surprising how easy it is for businessmen to assume that other nationalities will react in exactly the same way as they themselves do .
11 Carpenter assumed that increased fluid secretion began shortly after toxin administration but that net fluid production was not observed until the rate of secretion exceeded the rate of absorption .
12 Using the actual values of S T and R M rather than their expectations assumes that these expectations are unbiased and that , on average , the actual values are equal to their expected values .
13 The mentalist assumes that mental states are irreducibly mental in virtue of the fact that in all their essential aspects they can be known only by " introspection " .
14 Julia assumed that mutinous expression which Ian had seen on her face when having her work returned to her by Miss Coldharbour .
15 In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth .
16 Apart from the fact that a fully satisfactory solution is available without the need to assume that truncated clauses lurk beneath predicate qualifiers , there would be good reasons for discounting the possibility , even if one did not initially accept the intensional pattern of ( 15 ) as valid .
17 If evolution were the unfolding of a divine plan , then there was no need to assume that human progress would come about through the summing up of individual acts of selfishness .
18 Frequent legislative changes make it dangerous for advice workers to assume that any facts are unaltered and they must therefore always be encouraged to look things up afresh .
19 US intelligence assessments actually made in October 1990 , but only handed in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty .
20 These matters could be left to the two parties to agree as they arise , but the standard forms assume that prior agreement will lead to a smoother running project .
21 As a result the DES ( 1983 ) forecasts assumed that mature entry rates would fall at the same speed as the fall in 21–25 years olds — who constitute the majority of entrants to HE aged over 20 .
22 Could my service assume that any minutes would only be distributed as ‘ Top Secret ’ ? ’
23 It is easy , however for managers to assume that such changes have similarly profound effect on those who provide care and treatment .
24 All studies assume that unchanged policies will lead to a rise in carbon-dioxide output .
25 The craft 's endurance will be 2.2 hours which can be increased to 5.25 hours by decreasing the number of passengers by 10 ( these figures assume that each passenger carries 90 kg of baggage ) .
26 The strategy assumes that educational institutions are neutral , when not only is the education system controlled by men , but it actively constructs gender and actively produces women 's subordination .
27 This argument assumes that reducing surprise is a valuable and important goal of political morality .
28 The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection .
29 Abolitionists assumed that social deference could be a valuable impulse to support for reform .
30 Marx assumed that this portion is capitalist personal consumption , but this is a highly simplifying assumption that does not hold once we move only marginally away from the very highest level of abstraction at which he was working .
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