Example sentences of "if [pers pn] assume that [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you assume that they were paid somewhere between a half-day allowance and a full-day allowance , you 're probably looking at somewhere up towards fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 2 | Probabilities being what they are , you are most likely to be right in assessing frame size if you assume that you are medium-framed . |
| 3 | If we assume that we are not the proprietors but the trustees of this world and that we have a deed of covenant to honour , this at once introduces certain absolutes into economic life and certain limits on the exercise of freedom . |
| 4 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 5 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 6 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 7 | If we assume that you are writing on the right-hand page of an examination book or on loose examination sheets , bound at the top left-hand corner , then the identifying number of the question should be large so that it is easily seen and should be at the top right-hand corner . |
| 8 | If we assume that there is an additional broadscale SNR emission filling the 44'x32' shell and take the 45Jy of source KOM43 as the flux at 408MHz , we have . |
| 9 | For if we assume that there is much in prisons that will not bear being exposed ( and if not , why keep it secret ? ) then opening up the prison is likely to decrease the legitimacy of the system . |
| 10 | On the other hand , if we assume that there is imperfect information , in the sense that suppliers and demanders know the current price for the good on their island but only get to know the price in other markets with a one-period time lag , the relationship between aggregate supply and the general level of prices becomes much more subtle . |