Example sentences of "assume [conj] [noun prp] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | He assumes that Nick is , you people are rearranging my genes , so that everyone will be like everyone else . |
| 2 | let's assume that Mr is right in the suggestion he put to you about the building on the left , that it 's a golf course and we can see for ourselves without any evidence there 's a man fishing on the lake at the bottom there , were you trying to suggest that as part of the deal at a lake would be provided or a golf club ? |
| 3 | And when you eventually decide what time to travel , you can safely assume that BR is n't responsible for your train being late — blame the leaves on the track — or for the lack of pickle in your sandwiches — write to Clement Freud . |
| 4 | Brave words , but maybe justified ; and please do n't assume that Sonny is just another twelve-bar merchant , since he 's also a songwriter whose influences go from Dylan and Hendrix through to Cajun — the waltzes and the two-steps of the white settlers from Nova Scotia — and zydeco , the dynamic music form of black New Orleans . |
| 5 | Downing Street strategists planning their tactics as the battle for hearts and minds over monetary union enters a crucial phase would be wrong , therefore , to assume that Bonn is a natural ally . |
| 6 | Many people assume that Eton is a luxurious school . |
| 7 | And this is assuming that Venus is travelling in exactly the same plane as the Earth 's orbit , which it probably would n't be . |
| 8 | if he is only 5'11 and assuming that O'Leary is our other choice in the middle , neither would be that good in the air . |
| 9 | Assuming that Sophronia is an upper servant , the poem draws no closer to the owners than a description of the room where Biron sleeps and where , Timon-like , he keeps his unread books . |
| 10 | Assuming that Jackson is right in thinking that a larger budget and extra staff will be less effective in achieving such objectives , a model of bureaucratic behaviour needs to include the trade-offs to be made by bureaucrats between the different elements in their utility functions . |
| 11 | Assuming that LSTRAIN is running , typing LSTRAIN ( or LST , whichever you selected ) then connects the user to LSTRAIN . |
| 12 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 13 | Note : It is assumed that DECNET is available on the machines on which LIFESPAN is to be run . |
| 14 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |