Example sentences of "assume [conj] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The model assumes that the liability to the disease can be described by an underlying continuous liability scale ( y ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It assumes that the rationale of obedience is in all the intricate facts of social organisation and in no one group of facts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The legal model assumes that the board of directors manages the ordinary business of the company . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The present project assumes that the lack of progress stems , in part , at least , from the methods employed . |
| 21 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This model assumes that the welfare state can combat the worst injustice of modern capitalist societies . |
| 26 | An individualistic explanation of some event or phenomenon assumes that the event can be readily understood and explained solely through reference to the behaviour of the individual(s) involved in it . |
| 27 | It simply assumes that the past is of consuming interest , and through its richness and rareness of reference , and the elegance with which it is written , makes it so . |
| 28 | Jayne Greenwell also assumes that the existence of God is not a fact but ‘ a matter of opinion ’ . |
| 29 | This , of course , assumes that the direction of dichotic ear asymmetry is a valid index of the hemisphere in which speech is represented . |
| 30 | LIFESPAN assumes that the parent of a user is the person to whom information is to be sent if the user is in some way deficient in the activities to be undertaken ; e.g. failing to make a DC assessment . |