Example sentences of "assume that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 LA assumes that a word can be present only if all of its constituent phonemes are present for one of its pronunciations .
2 This assumes that a test is trying to measure a single dimension of student ability — a trait — and that the difficulty of a test item is independent of both the other items in the test and the groups of students who answer it .
3 One of the simplest differential growth models assumes that a firm has two stages : a growth stage and a mature stage .
4 It assumes that a user wants to work only within NeXTstep , not on a Unix command line , something it claims other products have failed to realise .
5 The kinetic theory of gases assumes that a gas consists of particles of negligible volume .
6 This example assumes that a sympathy for motorists with overwhelm any tendency to logical analysis .
7 Catechesis differs from evangelisation in that catechesis assumes that a faith commitment has been made by the participants .
8 The Act assumes that a company probably will maintain a register if it issues debenture stock or a series of debentures and the Act contains provisions , similar to , but not identical with , those relating to the membership register , concerning where the register shall be kept and who shall be entitled to inspect and obtain copies of it .
9 It is commonplace to hear people claiming to learn by their mistakes but that assumes that a mistake is recognized as such .
10 The positivist approach assumes that a science of society is possible .
11 Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) .
12 The IRR method implicitly assumes that a project 's annual cash flows can be reinvested at the project 's internal rate of return ; the NPV method assumes that the cash flows can be reinvested at the firm 's opportunity cost of capital .
13 This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question .
14 The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event .
15 It further assumes that no clothing is purchased which is not absolutely necessary for health and assumes too that it is of the plainest and most economical description . ’
16 The speaker assumes that the listener shares the speaker 's need for closeness and the view that both parties have a lot in common .
17 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 .
18 This assumes that the plasma free amino acid pool is representative of the precursor for pancreatic enzyme synthesis .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 ’ .
24 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 .
25 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 The model assumes that the liability to the disease can be described by an underlying continuous liability scale ( y ) .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 It assumes that the rationale of obedience is in all the intricate facts of social organisation and in no one group of facts .
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