Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] assume that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we follow standard practice in assuming that prices are fixed as a mark up over variable costs and that the rate of productivity growth is exogenous , a modified Phillips curve of the form emerges . |
| 2 | Clearly we have to find some way of using these data without assuming that rats , for example , are just very small people . |
| 3 | It would be foolish to ignore the historical roots of self-sacrifice or deference to group leaders , but we do need to avoid the danger of assuming that cooperation is always given voluntarily . |
| 4 | The Survey makes this point very clearly by showing that not far short of half of all defective items issued ( 42% ) were modern , 20th Century publications , a fact which underlines the danger of assuming that priority should automatically be given to the treatment of older material . |
| 5 | The editors of the NEB patronised congregations by assuming that God was over their heads . |
| 6 | The editors of the NEB patronised congregations by assuming that God was over their heads . |
| 7 | However , we make the mistake of assuming that beliefs follow experience — that we come to believe the world is a rotten place because we are treated badly . |
| 8 | Sally-Anne also made the mistake of assuming that Rose 's ma was a widow , only for Rose to stare at her , burst out laughing and say , ‘ Ow , there were n't no Mr Bailey , and me dad ‘ opped it long ago and ‘ is name were n't Bailey ; he was only ‘ im as lived wiv ‘ er . ’ |
| 9 | Van Dijk 's analyses , with their emphasis upon the creation of ideology ( e.g. van Dijk , 1986b , 1987 ) , do not make the mistake of assuming that impression-management follows culturally universal laws ( e.g. Tedeschi , 1981 ) . |
| 10 | There is in fact no compelling logic in any of these assumptions ; not merely is there no reason for assuming that Britain and Germany will have opposite policies in the postwar phase , there are real grounds for supposing that the major European countries will then start to have convergent policies . |
| 11 | If all that we can rely on are certain similarities between perceptions and ideas , then surely there is no justification for assuming that existents can be unequivocally differentiated solo numero . |
| 12 | The equilibrium assumption allows us in effect to abstract from the determinants of investment — and the role of uncertainty , expectations , ‘ animal spirits ’ , etc. — but at the cost of assuming that disequilibrium phenomena are unimportant for the purpose at hand or are transitory . |
| 13 | ‘ There are no grounds for assuming that Libya was the only country involved , ’ he said , suggesting again that there had been ‘ an unholy alliance ’ between Iran , Syria and Libya . |