Example sentences of "assume [that] [conj] [art] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Government assumes that because a child is young , less well-qualified teachers are needed , ’ said NUT general secretary Doug McAvoy . |
| 2 | I assumed that since the author was not black , the appearance of Africanist characters or narrative or idiom in a work could never be about anything other than the ‘ normal ’ , unracialised , illusory white world that provided the fictional backdrop . |
| 3 | All I was going to say was that clearly I agree with one thing , but one would assume that as the paper is a really a general outline that we would be seeing specific targets as the agenda 's worked through over the next two three years . |
| 4 | In the habitual contexts of English Literature teaching , students assume that if a work is on a reading list then it must be of approved quality , otherwise why is it there ? |
| 5 | We are assuming that when a sentence is understood , it is understood by mapping its constituents into background knowledge structures ( a central notion in the framework devised by Sanford & Garrod 1981 , and some other theories ) . |
| 6 | It is too often assumed that if a law is not designed to protect one man from another its only rationale can be that it is designed to punish moral wickedness , or in Lord Devlin 's words ‘ to enforce a moral principle ’ . |