Example sentences of "to assume [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is fanciful to assume that a tight-fisted state will produce open-handed citizens . |
| 2 | Mathematicians find it useful to assume that a tiny part of the circumference of a large circle can be regarded as straight . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , Kollerstrom appears to assume that a concentration of lead in the diet of x mg/g will produce a concentration of x mg/g in blood — this is an astonishing error from a scientist concerned with lead toxicity . |
| 4 | It follows that it is reasonable to assume that a unit of goodness can exist in the mind of man to aid him in understanding the origin of his God , just as the scientific unit aids human thought directed towards physical activity . |
| 5 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 6 | In general , it is reasonable to assume that a simple transcription in traditional orthography ( that is , without using phonemic symbols or a phonetic transcription ) will take between four and six times the length of the original recording . |
| 7 | There is a widespread tendency in social science and in more popular discussions of opinion/attitude surveys to assume that a large sample provides some automatic guarantee of reliable results , while a small one promises unreliability . |
| 8 | A third party should be entitled to assume that a person in an authoritative position within an organisation is competent to bind the organisation , and the organisation should not be able to plead violation of an internal rule unless ‘ that violation was manifest and concerned a rule of its internal law of fundamental importance . ’ |
| 9 | It is unrealistic to assume that a junior will confide in you unless you are prepared to confide in him or her . |
| 10 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 11 | It is reasonable to assume that a lytic phage as φ29 should have its main promoters optimized for high productivity . |
| 12 | The Darwinians had to assume that a useless organ was gradually reduced to a rudimentary state because natural selection would favour those individuals who did not waste their energy growing a useless structure . |
| 13 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 14 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 15 | Another fatal error is to assume that a product with general appeal should be marketed broadly ( with consequent high costs of promotion ) . |
| 16 | To assume that a study of Islamic pattern will have particular meaning for all Moslem children is imposing an idealised view of others ' cultures , rather than starting from the children 's real community . |
| 17 | Neither is it valid to assume that a full stop indicates sentence termination . |
| 18 | In the case where an E is extended by qualification in order to provide a more suitable identification to an audience , as in ( 14 ) , it is entirely natural to assume that a P which does the qualifying — typically an attributive adjective , in traditional terms — will apply to or be valid for the entity identified by the whole pattern [ P E ] . |
| 19 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 20 | In the American context Wade asks how politically realistic it is to assume that a President would willingly preside over an ‘ overtly contentious and competitive bureaucracy ’ . |
| 21 | From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester . |
| 22 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 23 | Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments . |
| 24 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 25 | It is safe to assume that a guardian will be appointed in most cases and the rules state that the appointment should be made as soon as practicable after the commencement of proceedings ( FPCR , r10(1) ; FPR , r4.10(1) ) . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is fair to assume that a clause such as the one identified above is at least potentially caught by s3 . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's naive to assume that every housewife can afford to go organic overnight , ’ adds Jean Boht . |
| 28 | But it is fair to assume that every time he sees people outside his own immediate entourage , there will be some among them who have a deep desire for vengeance . |
| 29 | It did not make sense to see all the lower animals as merely immature versions of humankind , nor was it possible to assume that every extinct population had been perfectly adapted to the conditions of its own time . |
| 30 | The collection at Woodstock has goodness knows how many silk wedding dresses , but it would be wrong to assume that every Victorian woman went round dressed in a white silk wedding dress , because they did n't . |