Example sentences of "assume [conj] [noun sg] is " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Boltzmann did not assume that energy is minimized . |
| 6 | In the quantity trading rule for the labour market we shall assume that employment is determined by the demand for labour . |
| 7 | It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And I do n't think that it 's too far-fetched to assume that person is one and the same ! ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the pond level only drops during periods of hot weather it is safe to assume that evaporation is the cause . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Many executive managers assume that resistance is a representation of ‘ the enemy , ’ whereas the reality is that no change can occur without it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | Mills rejects pluralist accounts because they mistakenly assume that power is only located in the political system . |
| 24 | Assume that VAT is always calculated at 15% . |
| 25 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 26 | But they can not do this if their minds and emotions are already sealed tight against it — if they assume that religion is outdated and not worth studying . |
| 27 | It would be foolish to ignore the historical roots of self-sacrifice or deference to group leaders , but we do need to avoid the danger of assuming that cooperation is always given voluntarily . |
| 28 | But to test , for example , the assumption about item difficulty being independent of the student requires assuming that ability is unidimensional ; in other words it can not be tested ! |
| 29 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 30 | Assuming that salt is acting as a competitor for the binding of the RNA polymerase to the promoter , these results suggest that open complexes formed at P A2b on supercoiled templates are more stable than initiated complexes found on linear templates , open complexes formed on linear templates being the less stable ones . |