Example sentences of "assume that [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 2 | It is important to remember this when thinking about climatic geomorphology , because if one assumes that landforms are going to vary significantly with these zones , one assumes that the climatic parameters controlling landforms are the same as those controlling natural vegetation . |
| 3 | The data in Table I ( drawn from work published by B R McLeod and Abraham Liboff ) assumes that H is exclusively the geomagnetic field strength . |
| 4 | He assumes that citizens are rational , selfish actors . |
| 5 | By the 1850s attempts to understand the arrangement of animals had thus reached the limits possible if one assumes that species are fixed in time . |
| 6 | It assumes that preferences are absolute . |
| 7 | The formal solution unc ( 3 ) assumes that A is non-singular . |
| 8 | It also assumes that providers are free to manage their assets and personnel to maximise efficiency gains . |
| 9 | Note that the construction assumes that B is altruistic towards A as well as vice versa . |
| 10 | Because the state assumes that women are men 's natural dependants , widows benefits are reasonably generous , whereas widowers are expected to be earning or receiving some form of social security in their own right . |
| 11 | He assumes that Nick is , you people are rearranging my genes , so that everyone will be like everyone else . |
| 12 | The president evidently assumes that Labour is likelier to muster a majority in parliament . |
| 13 | A traditional linguistics which studies the formal properties of a language ( its lexicon , phonology , graphology ) assumes that meaning is conveyed through correct application of the rules by users . |
| 14 | The linkage of a pressure-cooker view of sexuality ( which sees sex as a natural force constrained by societal norms ) with a cloud-of-dust theory of ideology ( which assumes that ideas are inevitably sifted downwards through society at large ) suggests that the ‘ sexual revolution ’ is in the end just about more sexual activity . |
| 15 | This argument assumes that warranties are concerned with knowledge — whereas they deal with risk . |
| 16 | The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views . |
| 17 | This assumes that governments are willing to make all their objectives explicit , that they can specify them precisely , and that they are stable over time . |
| 18 | The preceding account assumes that workers are in a position to distinguish with a reasonable degree of accuracy between changes in their real wages which are temporary and those which are permanent . |
| 19 | Several journalists who covered the event assumed that Alexia was Cameron Nielson 's daughter and that he , despite his name , had married into the family . |
| 20 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 21 | We all assumed that O was a man with a past . |
| 22 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 23 | Following on from Cannon ( 1947 ) most psychologists assumed that drive was simply bodily discomfort brought about by the deprivation state and that drive reduction was due to eliminating this discomfort . |
| 24 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 25 | There was never a reply , and he assumed that Elise was out . |
| 26 | I assumed that Rimbo was one of our friends from the developing world , like Fenton Akimbo . |
| 27 | In other armies , the selection process assumed that people were of the same social balance . |
| 28 | An example of this is the trigram model used in the TANGORA speech recogniser ( Jelinek , 1986 ) which assumed that histories are equivalent if they end in the same two words . |
| 29 | However , the other members of the House of Lords adopted a different approach and assumed that Securicor were in breach , subject to the protection of the clause . |
| 30 | From this book one might assume that BCCI was primarily a US operation . |