Example sentences of "assume [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 31 | This often provides the excuse for ageism , it being simpler to assume that the problem is old age rather than a treatable condition . |
| 32 | It is reasonable to assume that the storehouse is our local church . |
| 33 | Second , if leadership in God 's economy is not given on a basis of superiority then there is no reason to assume that the husband is the best equipped to make a given decision . |
| 34 | A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses . |
| 35 | Assume the dividend and divisor are integral , in two 's complement representation , For definiteness , assume that the remainder is zero or has the same sign as the dividend ( see Stein and Munro 1971 , Chapter 6 for more details ) . |
| 36 | I assume that the Minister is aware that 750,000 tonnes of CFCs are used in the world every year and that that has resulted in an ozone layer hole as large as Alaska . |
| 37 | It is actually easier to do the calculation if instead of individual turns we assume that the current is continuously distributed on the surface of the cylinder , and work in terms of |
| 38 | The taxation and social-security systems , for instance , assume that the man is working and the wife is not ; the wife is held to be financially dependent on her husband . |
| 39 | Never assume that the glider is undamaged . |
| 40 | The bend tests describes above assume that the beam is freely supported , that is , not clamped anywhere . |
| 41 | For practical applications , we also assume that the graph is connected , and that V is nonempty . |
| 42 | The tragic thing is that in reacting against such unhelpful literalism too many of us assume that the war is not real . |
| 43 | We assume that the node is in the second form , so its threshold is 0 . |
| 44 | We shall have to introduce point charges , but let us be a little more general to begin with and assume that the charge is uniformly distributed within a sphere of radius r0 . |
| 45 | We assume that the store is randomly accessible ; that is , the time taken to access a store location in order to store or retrieve information is constant and ( in particular ) is independent of the particular location being accessed and of the location previously accessed . |
| 46 | The figures assume that the loan is to be repaid using equal annual instalments over 20 years and interest is charged at 10 per cent of the reducing balance . |
| 47 | Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’ |
| 48 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 49 | If it should be made in conjunction with the Corvedale line , assuming that the capital is raised for that line , it may be too late then to enquire how trains are to run from Lydham village to Bishop 's Castle , which now might be placed on the main line , or what expenditure will be necessary to make the roads to Lydham village as suitable for the inhabitants of Norbury , Wentnor , &c. , as those over which they at present travel to Lydham Heath . |
| 50 | The holding-period yield , rh ( assuming that the bond is bought on a coupon payment date ( so that AI = 0 ) and sold an even number of coupon payment dates later ( so that T is an integer ) ) , is calculated using where r i is the rollover rate of interest earned by the ith coupon payment and P 1 is the price at which the bond was sold . |
| 51 | The yield to first call is the yield to maturity assuming that the bond is redeemed on the first call date . |
| 52 | Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent . |
| 53 | These matters should be sorted out before assuming that the conversation is impossible , and starting to write down the information one wants to communicate . |
| 54 | Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ . |
| 55 | Assuming that the system is based on a common 8-bit Z80 microprocessor , the ADC should be allocated a unique I/O address ( chosen so as to avoid conflict with other I/O devices which may be present ) . |
| 56 | It may be simplified by assuming that the share is held to infinity . |
| 57 | Assuming that the Court is prepared to make an interim payment , the amount it is empowered to make is : — ‘ such as it thinks just , not exceeding a reasonable proportion of the damages which in the opinion of the Court are likely to be recovered by the pursuer ’ . |
| 58 | The money yield ( rm ) is calculated by solving the following equation ( assuming that the calculation is made on a coupon payment date so that AI = 0 ) : where S is the number of coupon payments before redemption . |
| 59 | Assuming that the contract is not terminated before the end of the contract period and the rate at which charges or expenses will be made in respect of the contract continues unchanged during that period , the deductions to be made in respect of those charges or expenses may be expected to reduce the investment return by an amount approximately equal to that reduction in yield figure . |
| 60 | Assuming that the contract is not terminated before the end of the contract period and the rate at which charges or expenses will be made in respect of the contract continues unchanged during that period , the deductions to be made in respect of those charges or expenses may be expected to reduce the investment return by an amount approximately equal to that reduction in yield figure . |