Example sentences of "assume that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The speaker assumes that the listener shares the speaker 's need for closeness and the view that both parties have a lot in common . |
| 2 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
| 3 | This assumes that the plasma free amino acid pool is representative of the precursor for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 4 | The model assumes that the buyer will pass through this series of steps , whether it be consciously or unconsciously , until the purchase is ( or is not ) made . |
| 5 | This closing technique assumes that the buyer is willing to purchase but moves the decision to whether the colour should be red or blue , the delivery should be Tuesday or Friday , the payment in cash or credit , etc . |
| 6 | The cereal-packet image assumes that the man is the breadwinner and the woman is responsible for domestic tasks including child-care , cleaning and cooking . |
| 7 | Not only does the hearer assume it is the same ‘ man ’ who is being talked about throughout , he also assumes that the man will stay in the same place unless the speaker announces that he moves . |
| 8 | When the hearer hears goes to the window , he assumes it is ‘ the window ’ in that same ‘ living room ’ which has already been mentioned , and he assumes that the man ‘ goes to the window ’ on the same occasion , within minutes of the original setting ‘ sitting in the living room ’ . |
| 9 | Further it assumes that the differences between the forms and functioning of the family in ‘ industrial ’ and ‘ pre-industrial ’ societies are greater than any differences that might exist within these two categories such as , in the former , between capitalist and socialist societies . |
| 10 | On the other hand , this argument assumes that the function of judicial review is first and foremost to provide redress against illegal government action rather than to protect the personal interests of litigants . |
| 11 | A , b , This classification assumes that the fossil groups are related to one or other of the Recent agnathans ( galeaspids were not known at this time ) . |
| 12 | If you take something like The Hit Man and Her , presumably a lot of the viewers are in fact women , or more specifically young women , because they are the ones who buy Smash Hits , they are the ones who watch Top of the Pops ; yet the presenter , Pete Waterman , implicitly assumes that the viewers are male — he greeted the audience at the beginning of one programme with ‘ Cor , boys , have we got a load of crumpet here tonight ! ’ |
| 13 | Equation ( 5.4 ) is a respecification of the process driving the quantity of money : it assumes that the quantity of money in period t equals its value in period t - 1 plus a constant , g , plus a function of the shocks to aggregate demand in periods t - 1 and t - 2 . |
| 14 | The model assumes that the liability to the disease can be described by an underlying continuous liability scale ( y ) . |
| 15 | While the former does not go beyond the school — seeing the school as both problem and solution — the latter assumes that the education system is entirely successful as an apparatus which reproduces gender and class inequality . |
| 16 | However , this implicitly assumes that the investor may be able to reinvest the dividend for the same return at a lower risk than the firm ( or for a higher return for the same risk ) which , given the asymmetry of information , can not be the case unless the firm itself has an inferior investment policy , in which case the investor would be advised to withdraw his or her investment from the firm completely . |
| 17 | It assumes that the rationale of obedience is in all the intricate facts of social organisation and in no one group of facts . |
| 18 | Often , when the writer is attempting to represent a particular word , he assumes that the word he has written down genuinely approximates to what he wants . |
| 19 | But ultimately , at that stage , the expectation is that they will say , well the bulk of the D S S monies have now been transferred to local authorities , and can safely be distributed through the normal standard spending assessment distribution , and the revenue support grant for local authorities , so at that stage you will cease to have any specific grant and one assumes that the conditions about where you spend it and how you spend it will also have been removed . |
| 20 | The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company . |
| 21 | However , this argument assumes that the rules of judicial review which can be waived by appealing to the discretion are themselves clear and certain ; but , as we will see , this is very far from the case . |
| 22 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |
| 23 | It is also worth overcoming an approach to computer-aided historical research which assumes that the complexities inherent in disambiguating and interpreting fuzzy information and of representing idiosyncratic data types are at all unique to history . |
| 24 | In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff-intensive process that is rarely the case . |
| 25 | The present project assumes that the lack of progress stems , in part , at least , from the methods employed . |
| 26 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 27 | For simplicity , the example assumes that the company scraps the asset in 1996 and receives a balancing allowance equal to the tax written-down value . |
| 28 | The traditional view of insider dealing typically assumes that the company director is the insider , dealing on his own behalf in the shares of the company of which he is an employee . |
| 29 | It assumes that the UK organisation is registered to recover VAT . |
| 30 | It is known as matrix modelling because it assumes that the price of a bond is made up from each component of relative value taken separately . |