Example sentences of "assume the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is pretty low for a speculative investment and assumes the company is capitalised at 12.5 times earnings in the year to 31 March 2017 . |
| 2 | The book assumes the role of the most patient instructor . |
| 3 | Alpha assumes the computing system is distributed , and it includes replication mechanisms to provide distributed programming and ‘ survivability ’ . |
| 4 | Malcolm Reilly , reported to be ‘ shocked ’ by Bettinson 's dismissal , has been offered an up-graded title of coach/ manager while Maurice Lindsay , the Wigan chairman , replaces Bettinson and assumes the title of tour director and business manager . |
| 5 | Malcolm Reilly , reported to be ‘ shocked ’ by Bettinson 's dismissal , has been offered an up-graded title of coach/ manager while Maurice Lindsay , the Wigan chairman , replaces Bettinson and assumes the title of tour director and business manager . |
| 6 | The budget in the table assumes the cost of sow huts , water and fencing , tractor and trailer have all been amortised at 13% over five years . |
| 7 | When filming a combat he pans round two adversaries so that , as each in turn assumes the aggressive role , he is observed moving in from the right . |
| 8 | The previous paragraph assumes the existence of a decoding device in the cell , able to translate particular triplets into particular amino acids : such a decoding device is analogous to a machine which could receive a message in Morse code ( corresponding to the base sequence in DNA ) and produce a version written in the roman alphabet ( corresponding to the amino acid sequence of the protein ) . |
| 9 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 10 | He assumes the authority of the patriarch and saves Terentia from her weakness . |
| 11 | In Gillick terms , the ability to make an informed request assumes the child to be old enough to make at least that decision for himself . |
| 12 | The model assumes the existence of a mechanism ( a ‘ modulator ’ ) that detects any discrepancy between internal and external inputs , and , when the external input exceeds the internal , boosts the associability of the element to a degree proportional to the discrepancy . |
| 13 | Planning , in turn , assumes the existence of a system amenable to planning ; a system , that is , which is coherent , consistent , rational , predictable , manageable , and controllable . |
| 14 | In effect the exporter assumes the role of a buyer and has to market the counter-purchased goods . |
| 15 | Usually , one then treats one set of relations as problematic and.simply assumes the existence of the other , as if it were some sort of indeterminate background noise or , more contentiously , assigns truth to one and falsity to the other . |
| 16 | The destruction of the Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his followers by the Danish invaders of England in 991 was the occasion for the poem on the Battle of Maldon , which is firmly in the tradition of the German heroic lay : it records and assumes the overriding virtue of loyalty between a lord and his followers . |
| 17 | Park a 700 alongside other singles : it immediately assumes the role of 747 among DC-9s , 737s and A320s , towering above Bonanzas , Mooneys , Pipers and Trinidads . |
| 18 | Taking the Champagne region as a whole , it can be seen that Pinot Meunier assumes the greatest general importance , covering 36.5% ( 47% in 1982 ) of the total viticultural hectarage , followed by Pinot Noir with 35.8% ( 2.8% in 1982 ) and Chardonnay with 27.7% ( 24% in 1982 ) . |
| 19 | Any version of the resulting constitution which assumes the contrary is no more entitled to respect than the argument that the United Kingdom has lacked constitutional government since King James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames . |
| 20 | Suppose it is output Q which assumes the 1 state and output that is , the bistable is set . |
| 21 | However , when a clock pulse is applied to Ck , output Q assumes the same state as D and output operates as follows . |
| 22 | However , when a clock pulse is applied to Ck , output Q assumes the same state as D and output the opposite one . |
| 23 | similarly the Gooseberry Wife , found on the Isle of Wight , assumes the form of a large , hairy caterpillar who guards the gooseberry crop . |
| 24 | A particularly evil GHOST is the chagrin , also known as the ‘ cogrino ’ or ‘ nargirin ’ , who assumes the shape of a large yellow hedgehog . |
| 25 | One might rhetorically ask whether , if the United States or Britain assumes the role of international policeman from time to time , it is not an odd sense of police priorities to protect an oil sheikh from a military tyrant , but to ignore the plight of Sudanese children when military commanders forbid landing rights to aircraft bringing in food that could save their lives . |
| 26 | ( This assumes the behaviourist position that what is experienced subjectively as thought and emotion is identical with the behaviour , incipient as neural process as well as overt as bodily movement , which objectively is perceived by the senses . ) |
| 27 | Although Chang Tsai 's comparison with water shows clearly that the ch'i is a continuum and not an aggregate of atoms , the analogy with matter is so deep in Le Gall 's preconceptions that he assumes the component atoms to be implicit in the word ch'i of the Chinese text . |
| 28 | Rather it assumes the image of a golden age of progress and stability . |
| 29 | Although the father came by the bicycle innocently , if he assumes the rights of an owner by selling it , for instance , he will steal it . |
| 30 | Before she can eat , Snow White assumes the authorial voice , insisting that the other characters are her inventions , and that it is she who has always held the real power . |