Example sentences of "that it assume [conj] " in BNC.

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1 So rosy was the CEGB 's picture of these costs during the 1960s that it assumed that the charges for reprocessing would be covered by the value of the recovered uranium and plutonium .
2 Stated in these simple terms , the anti-cruelty position 's most obvious weakness is that it assumes that we already know that trapping wild animals is justified , if only it is done ‘ as humanely as possible ’ .
3 As a counter to this strongly argued view , it is worth mentioning that it assumes that ‘ biggest is best ’ and that the potential benefits of synergy will actually accrue .
4 Hume 's argument , however , does not hold water for the simple reason that it assumes that the question of the possibility of significantly ascribing identity to objects as ontological existents can and should be decided via an analysis of the conditions of their identification , whereas the simple fact is that the concept of an entity as a potential topic of discourse is analytically linked with , and hence inseparable from , that of identity .
5 The only real problem with this analysis is that it assumes that this is an unwitting decision by the individuals involved .
6 A more important problem with this treatment of the results is that it assumes that any particular rating means the same for all subjects .
7 The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents .
8 A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society .
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