Example sentences of "[pron] assume that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 2 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 3 | Shall we assume that the Home Secretary , too , will grant a reprieve to William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw Haw ’ ) because by January 3 , 1946 , the date of his execution , Germany had ceased to be an enemy country ? |
| 4 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 5 | Nor should we assume that the parties were static . |
| 6 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 7 | Let us assume that the survey is fine . |
| 8 | The sentence has 28 characters in it , so let us assume that the monkey has a series of discrete " tries ' , each consisting of 28 bashes at the keyboard . |
| 9 | To complicate the situation , let us assume that the package under consideration is itself called up from a higher package with a different manager . |
| 10 | Let us assume that the directive is fully supported by the Government , who do not wish to amend one jot or comma of it and who are willing to sign up to its immediate implementation . |
| 11 | Let us assume that the economy inherits a real wage rate w 1 . |
| 12 | However , let us assume that the habit is broken . |
| 13 | Floyd 's Algorithm works with the adjacency matrix representation of G. For convenience , let us assume that the vertex set of G is so that G is represented by a variable A of type |
| 14 | Let us assume that the value of child benefit , currently at £7.25 , be doubled ( as is proposed as part of the tax changes in chapter 19 ) . |
| 15 | To take a specific example , let us assume that the production function all of a sudden shifts ‘ upwards ’ . |