Example sentences of "is assume " in BNC.
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| 31 | The easiest way to introduce technical progress is to assume that factors become more effective over time , e.g. , that one worker can do the work that two did a decade ago . |
| 32 | The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) . |
| 33 | All that remains is to assume an equilibrium in which investors ' expectations are realized on average and we have the ex-post version of Treynor 's measure , . |
| 34 | One way of removing this restrictive assumption is to assume a constant rate of growth ( g ) of dividends into the future . |
| 35 | 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 ’ . |
| 36 | In which case I would see that the sensible thing to do , which is what we have done , is to assume that the current vacancy rate stays the same as a percentage and that with a larger dwelling stock , results in some additional vacant dwellings . |
| 37 | The easiest way to deal with the situation and the one which causes least problems to the students is to assume that the wages paid in 1989 and the materials used in 1989 were charged in 1989 . |
| 38 | One attempt to explain the choice of price subsidies and in-kind transfers is to assume a ‘ goods-specific ’ externality . |
| 39 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 40 | Since the purchaser is to assume the liabilities for all persons employed in the business ( including any claim by the employees against the vendor ) it is important for him to collect , as early as possible , full details of all employees . |
| 41 | The only really satisfactory way to solve the whole problem is to assume that there are certain types of goods which can at the same time be " ordinarily " for private use and for commercial use . |
| 42 | The first trap for young reporters is to assume that responsibility for a libel can be avoided if it is made in an attributed quotation . |
| 43 | If the house is already in the joint names of the husband and wife subject to a mortgage and the husband alone is to assume liability , then again the wife will require an indemnity from the husband . |
| 44 | Our safest bet is to assume they did n't , but if they did the soonest they could launch a search is first thing tomorrow . |
| 45 | The only way people can be safe is to assume they could be the thieves ' next target and do what they can to protect their horses . |
| 46 | And one of the things we must n't do , in fact , is to assume that erm our seventeenth ancestor is just ourselves in funny clothes . |
| 47 | First of all , the great mistake most people when they 're talking to press people is to assume that they know what they 're talking about . |
| 48 | Neglect edge effects that is assume no change in the variable along the tube . |
| 49 | There is also information on where the local topos/guides can be bought ( that is assuming they are still in stock by the time you get there ) . |
| 50 | Furthermore , Disney is assuming 60 per cent of these visitors will come from France , which mean 26 per cent of the company 's population will visit Eurodisney each year . |
| 51 | Mr Shute is assuming the chairmanship of Ross from Ross Marks , the company 's 37-year-old founder , who will remain as chairman of the consumer electronics operations and a director of the group . |
| 52 | Mr Mark Brett , economist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said : ‘ The risk has to be that the figures will be better than everybody is assuming . |
| 53 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 54 | That is assuming the six chosen observers represent the ‘ average ’ nose . |
| 55 | ( That is assuming that the United Nations sorts out the regulatory problems . ) |
| 56 | What faith is asking always reveals what it is assuming . |
| 57 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 58 | And this is assuming that Venus is travelling in exactly the same plane as the Earth 's orbit , which it probably would n't be . |
| 59 | Corollary is assuming a 66MHz P5 . |
| 60 | The material which has been gathered supports this contention and it also raises a number of issues concerning the needs of staff , as well as students , at a time when the total quality of the teaching/learning experience is assuming a certain prominence throughout the HE sector . |