Example sentences of "[pers pn] assume that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I assume that the readings you have quoted are under ‘ no-load ’ conditions .
3 Therefore , I assume that the Opposition will want to give the Bill an unopposed Second Reading .
4 When I dip my toe in the swimming pool before going in , I assume that the temperature of that part of the water is representative of the temperature of the whole pool .
5 This was with the engine running , so I assume that the wing drop was a result of the slip stream effect from the propeller .
6 I assume that the quality of the ones I have handled is typical or representative of the quality of the others .
7 you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping
8 If you assume that on politically sensitive issues as is normally the case the magistrates would not vote , and if you assume that the Secretaries er Secretary of State 's appointees would , as would seem entirely plausible , vote in accordance with the wishes of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of State were indeed a Conservative Secretary of State , you would in fact have er in a area where the with the with the with the substantive Labour majority , you would have a Conservative majority on the police authority and you would you have the possibility of conflict between the police police authority and the local authorities er in the area who are jointly responsible with the police authority for many aspects of er of of policing by consent .
9 In the money supply equation we adopt a policy rule which Barro ( 1976 ) showed would lead to policy ineffectiveness ; that is , we assume that the quantity of money is linked only to the once-lagged value of :
10 As a first approximation , we assume that the cylinder deforms globally to become a squatter version of itself .
11 If we assume that the DNA bound bleomycin covers three base pairs two of which correspond to the cleavage site then the molecules must protrude by one base pairs in either direction .
12 As nobody else is mentioned we assume that the speaker ate the breakfast herself .
13 Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe .
14 We make the assumption ( equation 4 ) that the experimental exothermicity provides a measure of the contribution from base pair stacking and equate ΔH helix with ΔH s ( i.e. , we assume that the exothermicity of hydrogen bond formation in water is small , as supported by hydrogen bond inventories [ 32 ] , and by the relatively small favourable free energies of these bonds relative to exothermicities of base stacking ) , and that ΔG s is mainly enthalpic in origin ( i.e. , ΔG s ≃DH s ) .
15 If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 .
16 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
17 Thus we assume that the forces of demand and supply have free play ; that there is no close combination among dealers on either side , but each acts for himself , and there is much free competition ; that is , buyers generally compete freely with buyers , and sellers compete freely with sellers .
18 First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation .
19 We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them .
20 ( c ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the index register is large enough to hold both fields ; for example , the DEC PDP- 10 uses the two halves of a 36-bit accumulator .
21 When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment .
22 At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time .
23 ( d ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the modifier field is always incremented by one , but other arrangements are possible .
24 We assume that the matrix A is already in upper Hessenberg form .
25 For simplicity , we assume that the effects of different loci multiply , and we neglect linkage disequilibrium and genetic variation , to derive approximations to the survival probabilities , give the optimal life history in the absence of mutation .
26 If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination .
27 Rather , we assume that the characteristics of the political system are those typically found in Western democracies , and examine within the context of those assumptions ( e.g. , majority voting ) the behaviour of the electorate , the government , and the bureaucracy .
28 Moving on let's have a talk about the primary school budgets , we 're proposing a million pounds here for primary school delegated budgets er we assume that the schools have used that largely by non-contact time for the teachers .
29 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 . ’
30 This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances .
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