Example sentences of "[noun sg] is to assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | An even more extreme form of this way of thinking is to assume that there has been some type of directive force in evolution such that humans represent the ‘ pinnacle ’ of progress . |
| 2 | A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses . |
| 3 | The common talk is that the Official Custodian manages £125bn of charity money and as she winds up her role the error is to assume that this should fall into the fund managers ' laps . |
| 4 | Another fatal error is to assume that a product with general appeal should be marketed broadly ( with consequent high costs of promotion ) . |
| 5 | The safest plan is to assume that any such specified time refers to Inbound Leg time . |
| 6 | The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) . |
| 7 | Another popular misconception is to assume that the types of funding and service offered by different lenders are virtually identical — all you have to do is discover who is willing to lend you money and then compare interest rates . |
| 8 | The opposite style is to assume that the communication should be limited to exactly what there is to be communicated and that all else risks blurring the communication . |
| 9 | The hedonist 's mistake is to assume that if X + Y has 100 degrees of goodness and X without Y has 10 degrees of goodness that Y possesses 90 degrees of goodness . |
| 10 | ‘ And your third mistake is to assume that I would risk my whole operation by sleeping with any one of them — no matter how attractive they might be . ’ |
| 11 | The easiest way to introduce technical progress is to assume that factors become more effective over time , e.g. , that one worker can do the work that two did a decade ago . |
| 12 | There is no military-industrial complex because to define the enhanced role of the military in this way is to assume that the reason for this development is the desire of the military and industry to work together . |
| 13 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 14 | The only really satisfactory way to solve the whole problem is to assume that there are certain types of goods which can at the same time be " ordinarily " for private use and for commercial use . |
| 15 | One solution is to assume that , since all men are in their most basic attributes ultimately alike and use similar mental processes , then they must mean the same things when they employ the same symbols and metaphors . |
| 16 | Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen . |