Example sentences of "even assume that " in BNC.

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1 My argument does not even assume that it was a dominant way of thinking in earlier periods .
2 We may become more like them in our styles and habits ; we may begin to look at our children as our parents looked at us ; we may even assume that we will die at the age at which they died , and of the same disease or in the same way .
3 Even assuming that the bureau could bear the additional nominal £150 that NACAB charges each year for keeping the system up to date , the heaviest cost would be the time of the person who must insert the monthly updates .
4 With this scenario for fusion research , the timescale would still put demonstration of the feasibility of fusion power some decades away , even assuming that the outcome of JET is satisfactory .
5 A new assessment of the radiological effects of nuclear war published by a working party of the British Institute of Radiology suggests that , even assuming that the MRC 's new guess of the LD 50 is correct , most of Britain 's population would stand little chance of surviving a nuclear attack .
6 A world state , even assuming that it is a highly-devolved federal state , would involve compulsory and sanctioned jurisdiction on a wide range of issues at present regarded as central to the existence of the individual sovereign states which would have to become the subordinate parts of a world state .
7 Even assuming that A 's excessive use of a particular highway could amount to a public nuisance , that could not mean that B , C or D could not use the highway , however reasonably , for fear of committing public nuisance .
8 Brooking J. , on the other hand , at pp. 526–527 , accepted Attorney-General 's Reference ( No. 2 of 1982 ) and would have upheld the conviction , even assuming that Morris should be followed .
9 Since there is no enumerated list of British black persons ( even assuming that this is a well-defined category ) , speakers from the British black community can not be systematically sampled from a range of social classes .
10 Even assuming that the French public can be persuaded to accept what will in effect be the Deutschmark as their currency , and are willing to allow their economic policy to be decided by German domestic needs , will membership of this ‘ inner core ’ in fact be beneficial for Britain ?
11 The counterpart for our experimental data is not so straightforward , since the subjects do not report their reservation values ( even assuming that they have them ) .
12 He was even assuming that she was a willing accomplice in all of this … this madness .
13 Third , using the example of occupational categories again , even assuming that a researcher has selected the sample randomly , only later dividing the group with respect to the property of occupational type , this is hardly the randomisation required by experimental design .
14 As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely .
15 Even assuming that gliadin contains more than one toxic moiety , a pure peptide would contain considerably more of the toxic moiety on a molar basis than whole gliadin .
16 This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints .
17 Even assuming that " language choice " somehow subsumes code switching in non-diglossic situations , there seems to be no way of relating code switching behaviour directly to the " social " dimension .
18 Pointing out that the grant settlement was based on wage awards from zero to 1.5 per cent , Mr Gray added : ‘ Even assuming that such a level of wage settlement can be negotiated , there is no doubt that some very difficult service and job-loss decisions will require to be taken in the next few weeks .
19 So it remains to be seen whether we may have such a network , or perhaps even assuming that nearly all the cheap oil runs out , whether we might in fact manufacture petrol artificially from wood , coal , or gas , simply to provide the excellent fuel with its wonderful storage characteristics for long distance transport .
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