Example sentences of "assume [conj] [noun] [conj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument assumes that space and time are infinitely divisible , but not all of Zeno 's arguments involve this assumption . |
| 2 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |
| 3 | A generation or so ago , New Critics and Scrutineers did assume that scrupulosity and rigour were selfjustifying ends in criticism . |
| 4 | But it would be hazardous to assume that prominence and deviance are simply subjective and objective aspects of the same phenomenon . |
| 5 | But someone like Vera Brittain was only just beginning to explore the problem of ‘ how a married woman without being inordinately rich , can have children and yet maintain her intellectual and spiritual independence ’ in the years following World War I. The small number of married women who pursued an active public life between the wars continued to assume that home and family were part of their natural responsibilities and solved the problem — as women with as diverse political views as Brittain and Violet Markham recognised — through the employment of domestic servants . |
| 6 | People often assume that personality and behaviour are one and the same and this leads to the erroneous assumption that because the fundamentals of your personality are relatively fixed so also is your behaviour . |
| 7 | He asks " How are such propositions possible ? " , and his answer is that this can be explained only by assuming that space and time are a priori features of our cognitive constitution , not properties of things in themselves . |
| 8 | For simplicity it is assumed that tastes and income are identical between residents , and therefore , once again , this is a ‘ representative individual ’ for the locality . |
| 9 | ’ . It is assumed that pain and suffering are forces driving men to true religion . |