Example sentences of "assume [conj] the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The taxation and social-security systems , for instance , assume that the man is working and the wife is not ; the wife is held to be financially dependent on her husband . |
| 5 | For most of his life , doctors had assumed that the man was incapable of making his own insulin in the cells of his pancreas . |