Example sentences of "assume that the whole [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 Read newspapers , and do n't assume that the whole world is as interested in acting as you are .
2 Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state .
3 We may , in fact , reinterpret any of the diagrams of Figs ( 2.25 ) -(2.31) by assuming that the whole space is filled with a material of conductivity unc and the field lines are now the lines of current flow as well .
4 The Forty-Second Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education , published in 1943 , devoted a whole volume ( Part Two ) to " The library in general education " , once again assuming that the whole idea was totally novel .
5 The very way that news stories and programmes about mental handicap are reported falls into the same trap of assuming that the whole subject is sad and despairing , mainly because the journalists and broadcasters possess the same lack of understanding as their viewers .
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