Example sentences of "assume that the " in BNC.

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31 The speaker assumes that the listener shares the speaker 's need for closeness and the view that both parties have a lot in common .
32 There is , however , an alternative approach based on the development of a new understanding of law , which no longer assumes that the legal system is uniform but realises that law is linked into complex processes of communication between and within different sub-systems of society , which in turn form and influence the substance of a particular segment of law .
33 This chapter assumes that the expatriate employee is male and references to spouses are directed to wives .
34 In effect , for all practical purposes , modern western man assumes that the human race is thrown upon its own resources to cope with life and discover what meaning , if any , it may have .
35 Note that the view assumes that the adventurers are approaching the Castle along the lower path , which leads up to the Castle .
36 The fly in effect assumes that the size and velocity of the target are always those corresponding to hoverflies , and on this rigid ( and fallible ) basis the creature determines its angle of turn , when initiating its flight , according to the variable approach angle subtended by the target .
37 Such an approach assumes that the disease is attributable to a particular virus or bacteria which can be clearly demonstrated and which hence constitutes the essential cause of the disease .
38 The model assumes that the liability to the disease can be described by an underlying continuous liability scale ( y ) .
39 Woodland Hills , California-based American Mobile Systems Inc reports that it has had an offer from LIN Broadcasting Corp 's Transit Communications unit to buy not less than 8.75m newly issued American Mobile shares for $8.50 each ; Fleet Call Inc has currently bought 714,286 shares of its common for $5m as part of a previously announced agreement for Fleet call to buy no less than a majority of American Mobile 's shares at $7 each ; the new offer assumes that the Fleet Call deal will be completed as planned .
40 A , b , This classification assumes that the fossil groups are related to one or other of the Recent agnathans ( galeaspids were not known at this time ) .
41 Equation ( 2 ) assumes that the fragments of the disrupted object may continue to be treated with a single , collective bow shock .
42 The quoted distance of 1.5kpc to the pulsar based on its dispersion measure of 75.68pccm -3 assumes that the mean interstellar electron density along the line of sight is n e =0.05cm -3 .
43 Quite the contrary , it assumes that the nature of criminal definitions and their application are factors that influence people 's decisions whether to comply with them or not , and are therefore an issue for correctionalism .
44 In particular , in spite of his attempt to avoid positing history as an a priori transcendent law , in the published first volume of the Critique he had still utilized an organicist teleological model of history which assumes that the end is already implicit in the beginning , and that history rolls forward to a determined end .
45 It assumes that the rationale of obedience is in all the intricate facts of social organisation and in no one group of facts .
46 The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company .
47 Simpson assumes that the common law is law .
48 However , this counter-argument in turn assumes that the requirement of sufficient interest is a liberal standing rule in the sense that it makes access to the courts to challenge administrative action very easy , and so shifts the burden of weeding out weak cases to other mechanisms .
49 On the other hand , this argument assumes that the function of judicial review is first and foremost to provide redress against illegal government action rather than to protect the personal interests of litigants .
50 However , this argument assumes that the rules of judicial review which can be waived by appealing to the discretion are themselves clear and certain ; but , as we will see , this is very far from the case .
51 It simply assumes that the past is of consuming interest , and through its richness and rareness of reference , and the elegance with which it is written , makes it so .
52 The traditional view of insider dealing typically assumes that the company director is the insider , dealing on his own behalf in the shares of the company of which he is an employee .
53 An individualistic explanation of some event or phenomenon assumes that the event can be readily understood and explained solely through reference to the behaviour of the individual(s) involved in it .
54 Such a model assumes that the fertility in families with and without employed wives responds to wage changes quite differently .
55 Further it assumes that the differences between the forms and functioning of the family in ‘ industrial ’ and ‘ pre-industrial ’ societies are greater than any differences that might exist within these two categories such as , in the former , between capitalist and socialist societies .
56 Common fantasy that a spell on the dole is the change that 's as good as a rest assumes that the pastimes of the poor are the weekend pleasures of the employed — drinking , fishing , playing with cars , playing pool , playing bingo , going to the cinema .
57 Often , when the writer is attempting to represent a particular word , he assumes that the word he has written down genuinely approximates to what he wants .
58 It assumes that the wavefunctions unc and unc were obtained by solving the Schrödinger equation with slits I and 2 respectively open .
59 But this question assumes that the task of stylistics is to provide a hard-and-fast technology of analysis , which is not the case .
60 The cereal-packet image assumes that the man is the breadwinner and the woman is responsible for domestic tasks including child-care , cleaning and cooking .
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