Example sentences of "assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people wrongly assume that all they have automatically goes to their loved ones . |
| 2 | Although major types of plant pest are surprisingly few , it is easy to become over-sensitive , not to say paranoid , and assume that everything that moves is a potential threat . |
| 3 | The moral is clear : when gustiness is getting near to the limit for safe flying , assume that at any time it could suddenly increase . |
| 4 | Never assume that the glider is undamaged . |
| 5 | First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The materialist versions of the CTP assume that there is a causal chain that begins with the perceived object and ends with the perception . |
| 8 | In the habitual contexts of English Literature teaching , students assume that if a work is on a reading list then it must be of approved quality , otherwise why is it there ? |
| 9 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 10 | ‘ I assume that we thought that these dependants would wish to accompany their soldiers and that the soldiers would wish to have them with them . |
| 11 | Many doctors assume that if Down 's is spotted , termination is the only ‘ sensible ’ thing to do , what all women will want . |
| 12 | It says a great deal about the natural stupidity of tyrants that , having discovered that torture works extremely effectively in intellectual or political cases , they immediately assume that it will work as well in the inspiring of desire in young women . |
| 13 | There are , however , some men who assume that a single mother must be looking for a husband . |
| 14 | Suppose for a moment that Mr Gorbachev himself does not know what he has in mind ; assume that he is just a moderniser with no clear idea where modernising leads . |
| 15 | All studies assume that unchanged policies will lead to a rise in carbon-dioxide output . |
| 16 | The OECD 's figures assume that pensions rise in line with wages . |
| 17 | The fiction was planned in three or four parts and I assume that most of the first and second parts was incorporated into The Childhood , the initial manuscript of which is in a notebook identical with the extant one , fiction II ‘ begun 12. iii . |
| 18 | In the face of doubts about the truths of religion , could bereaved parents still take courage and assume that their children 's death meant only a brief separation , the prelude to reunion in happier surroundings ? |
| 19 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 20 | Now I assume that Mother Nature will age me along with everyone else . |
| 21 | Nor is it enough to give them details of exercise and sport and then assume that they will simply become more active . |
| 22 | Probabilities being what they are , you are most likely to be right in assessing frame size if you assume that you are medium-framed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Of course , I assume that you have feelings similar to mine , and I also assume that animals which are reasonably like us have feelings that are like ours . |
| 25 | Of course , I assume that you have feelings similar to mine , and I also assume that animals which are reasonably like us have feelings that are like ours . |
| 26 | Further , assume that the map consists of a sheet of neurones , with particular neurones corresponding to particular places , the pattern being geometrically similar to the environment being mapped . |
| 27 | We assume that every pattern has a meaning . |
| 28 | In effect , these programs assume that the task of extracting edges from the visual image has been completed , and concentrate on converting a set of lines into a 3-D interpretation . |
| 29 | Some of the causes of the crisis are familiar to other countries ( although it is typical of the little Englander approach of the federalists in Britain that they assume that Britain 's problems are unique to her ) . |
| 30 | So we should not be dogmatic , and assume that the kind of life we have on Earth is the only kind that could exist in the entire Universe ; and ‘ living ’ clays may flourish elsewhere , perhaps even on Mars ( as suggested by Professor Hyman Hartman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) . |