Example sentences of "[conj] we assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trap is that we assume that a broad market means a less specialised product at a low price . |
| 2 | However in this instance there is no a priori reason for binding to one rather than the other , so we assume that both sites are equally occupied . |
| 3 | Our existing residents will continue to get social security funding for their rent and we assume that we will still get grants from the health authority and social services for our running costs . |
| 4 | Again , for the moment we assume the eigenvalues of A to be real and unrepeated ; and we assume that in ( 2.7.1.1 ) they appear in descending order of modulus . |
| 5 | This is because our ‘ taxi schema ’ contains a ‘ taxi driver ’ , and we assume that a taxi that arrives at our house has a driver . |
| 6 | In all cases except FEDV this criterion is satisfied since all other variables are dated t - 1 or earlier , and we assume that such variables are in agents ' information sets . |
| 7 | Its temperature , on the other hand , does change , and we assume that its rate of change is proportional to the difference between ambient temperature and its temperature which may be rewritten where J and K are positive constants . |
| 8 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 9 | To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise . |
| 10 | If we assume that for various reasons promotion within six months is not possible , all or some of the interests might be met in alternative ways . |
| 11 | If we assume that ducks peek randomly , briefly and independently of each other then the probability of the flock detecting a randomly attacking cat is given by P = 1 — e where n is the flock size . |
| 12 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
| 13 | If we assume that we are not the proprietors but the trustees of this world and that we have a deed of covenant to honour , this at once introduces certain absolutes into economic life and certain limits on the exercise of freedom . |
| 14 | A further mystery is this : if we assume that the motive for building the monuments was a mixture of religion and astronomy , which way round did the process operate ? |
| 15 | Thus , even if we assume that a significant proportion are well supported either by relatives or by services purchased with their own money , it is highly probable that personal social services see only the tip of an iceberg of unmet needs . |
| 16 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 17 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |
| 18 | If we assume that the relative risk is well approximated by the odds ratio , the percentage of cases that could be attributable to this genotype was 8% in the whole population and 35% in the low-risk group . |
| 19 | If we assume that there is an additional broadscale SNR emission filling the 44'x32' shell and take the 45Jy of source KOM43 as the flux at 408MHz , we have . |
| 20 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 21 | But if we assume that such an appeal can be successfully made on the economic front , this strategy needs to be knitted in with a range of other policies that appeal to altruism as well as self-interest . |
| 22 | If we assume that these vehicles have an operational life of five years , and that 10 per cent is an agreed discount rate , then this scheme should produce benefits in net present value terms of approximately £2.8 million . |
| 23 | For if we assume that there is much in prisons that will not bear being exposed ( and if not , why keep it secret ? ) then opening up the prison is likely to decrease the legitimacy of the system . |
| 24 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 25 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |
| 26 | If we assume that our kind of beings will still be around a few millennia hence , I feel certain that the nineteenth century will mainly be remembered as the century when Maxwell formulated his equations . |
| 27 | If we assume that you are writing on the right-hand page of an examination book or on loose examination sheets , bound at the top left-hand corner , then the identifying number of the question should be large so that it is easily seen and should be at the top right-hand corner . |
| 28 | It will take us even further if we assume that the dependence of effects on causes is smooth . |
| 29 | If we assume that the marketing concept is upheld in a particular organization , then the key objectives of its marketing department could be as follows : |
| 30 | This pattern of latencies can be explained if we assume that when a subordinate clause appears before its main clause syntactic information about the subordinate clause needs to be retained until the main clause has been heard . |