Example sentences of "assume [conj] [noun sg] [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 The president evidently assumes that Labour is likelier to muster a majority in parliament .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 We shall assume that output is determined by the minimum of supply and demand , so that with excess supply in both markets , the quantities traded in each will be determined by demand .
9 Boltzmann did not assume that energy is minimized .
10 In the quantity trading rule for the labour market we shall assume that employment is determined by the demand for labour .
11 It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly .
12 But because , in terms of our Christian moral code , this is a shameful matter we are inclined to push it to one side and to assume that kinship is the equivalent of " blood relationship " which implies , or should imply , biological connection .
13 The main problem was that everyone seemed to assume that Gouzenko was an expert on every facet of Russian intelligence operations .
14 But a new thought struck him — another murder might lead his superior to assume that Surere was , after all , still hiding out in the Southern Capital , and that , too , would hardly be to Merymose 's credit .
15 And I do n't think that it 's too far-fetched to assume that person is one and the same ! ’
16 If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory .
17 This example points to an underlying trend in the English language : to assume that male is the norm and to define women by reference to their sexuality .
18 It is these large-scale ‘ improvements ’ of the countryside that later lead Sir Leicester to assume that nature is dependent for its execution on great county families .
19 If the pond level only drops during periods of hot weather it is safe to assume that evaporation is the cause .
20 While it may be true to say that the one predominates in Christianity and the other in such Eastern religions as Buddhism and Hinduism , it would be a mistake to assume that Christianity is devoid of the principle of identity or that Buddhism and Hinduism are devoid of the principle of participation .
21 All the early supplies of penicillin which came to the public were manufactured in America , and , in America at least , it was natural to assume that penicillin was an American discovery .
22 Since it was to act against hope , it was wrong to assume that defeat was an explicit sign of divine condemnation of a cause from which there could be no recovery .
23 Since most foreigners know only of the Phoenix King and the pre-eminence of Eataine they tend to assume that Ulthuan is a far more homogeneous bloc than in fact it is .
24 Many executive managers assume that resistance is a representation of ‘ the enemy , ’ whereas the reality is that no change can occur without it .
25 Left-inclined critics argue that pluralists ignore the more fundamental question of who actually benefits from public-policy outcomes and wrongly assume that participation is power .
26 Senior registrar appointment committees assume that accreditation is necessary before someone is appointed to a consultant post and that accreditation will be granted only after four years of higher training ( eight years for a doctor training half time under the PM(79)3 scheme ) .
27 We have a long way to go before society really shifts in attitude , and both men and women assume that caring is not only a woman 's job .
28 For example , some assume that mastery is an all-or-nothing state and set the standard at 100 per cent although there is some flexibility depending on the nature of the errors made , if these are few .
29 Both Stalinism and Sartreanism assume that history is an emancipatory process of self-realization , even if the forces of production in the one are replaced by the praxis of the self-conscious human subject in the other .
30 The mistake the reformists make is a common and fundamental one : they assume that language is — or should be — a faithful representation of reality , a ‘ mirror of nature ’ .
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