Example sentences of "[prep] assuming that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the wholly unpredicted speed-up of events elsewhere in Eastern Europe should make us wary of assuming that the Romanians must be so much further behind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first , Chapter 4 , deals with the measurements of crime , the extent and character of recorded crime and the dangers of assuming that the criminal statistics accurately reflect the amount and character of crime that does occur . |
| 4 | We therefore , quite understandably , make the error of assuming that the world is essentially a visual one . |
| 5 | This may well extend our understanding of alliances on the larger scale ( Huggett forthcoming ) although we should be wary of assuming that the sources of the material are relevant to the question of alliances with all of England . |
| 6 | There is a danger of assuming that the Japanese have not rejected the contemporary institutions of collectivism because they are accepted as ideal . |
| 7 | In any case , one must be aware of assuming that the angels are always on the side of innovation . |
| 8 | Instead of assuming that the discharge of patients from psychiatric institutions is to blame we should be studying carefully the pathways that lead mentally ill people into homelessness and destitution . |
| 9 | Now consider the result of assuming that the shift in the aggregate demand curve from AD to AD 1 was entirely unpredictable , the result of a positive value for the random error term in the process determining aggregate demand . |
| 10 | He cautions against assuming that the only ways to implement effective reform are to start from scratch ( as with McMaster 's course , utilising problem based learning in small groups ) or to adopt wholesale change as at Harvard . |
| 11 | These matters should be sorted out before assuming that the conversation is impossible , and starting to write down the information one wants to communicate . |
| 12 | No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree . |
| 13 | Popular misconceptions often stem from assuming that the national debt is analogous with private debt , which is true for external government debt but not for internal debt : |
| 14 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 15 | Few British juries had ever been happy ‘ to equate ordinary sexual desire with depravity ’ , as the Working Party would have had it , but Williams a decade later was equally wrong in assuming that the 1959 test was therefore null and void . |
| 16 | But the opium-taking habit led de Quincey on to far less pleasant and exhilarating experiences , and we are justified in assuming that the Minoans too suffered the adverse effects of opium . |
| 17 | This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves . |
| 18 | In spite of the great advance in knowledge , we made a grave error in assuming that the stone wall was built with the rampart . |
| 19 | As a member of that Council I emphatically deny that he has had any mandate , or that he is justified in assuming that the Council as a whole takes his view . |
| 20 | ‘ Or , ’ she added with deliberate coquetry , ‘ am I mistaken in assuming that the light-fingered Lotta is no longer a part of your — er — personal life ? ’ |
| 21 | We must nevertheless be cautious in assuming that the changing forms of association identified by these authors are simply products of their romanticising imaginations . |
| 22 | Perhaps he is optimistic in assuming that the students he has targeted will have much in the way of explicit grammatical knowledge ; in my experience , first-year British undergraduates have little more than sketchy notions of what nouns and verbs are . |
| 23 | However , he did not allow her to become too swamped with nervous , trembling uncertainty , as he began to talk calmly and reasonably about his brother 's future life in America , describing some of the amusing mistakes he himself had made in assuming that the English and the Americans spoke the same language — when , in fact , so many words had different meanings . |
| 24 | He criticized neo-classical economics for assuming that the actors in a market-place had perfect information and acted with supreme rationality to further their financial best interests . |
| 25 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 26 | Reasons for assuming that the dark staining does demonstrate inactivity are well founded since , in a number of comparative tests , cytogenetic determination has been found to concur with enzymatic determination . |
| 27 | Furthermore , there are good grounds for assuming that the distinction between sentence processing and discourse processing is by no means a clear one . |
| 28 | The passages from Mank Ali and Ata'i concerning Abdulfettah do suggest , however , that there may well have been some connection between the pairs of concepts and that there is some basis for assuming that the " interior " referred to is the three cities of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ( and environs ) and the " exterior " the rest of the empire or at least that part of it in which the learned hierarchy operated . |
| 29 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 30 | There is , as yet , no evidence that Ac-ASA inside the mucosa is inactive , and indeed there are good theoretical reasons for assuming that the drug present in the highest local concentration is the active one . |