Example sentences of "assume the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is pretty low for a speculative investment and assumes the company is capitalised at 12.5 times earnings in the year to 31 March 2017 . |
| 2 | Any version of the resulting constitution which assumes the contrary is no more entitled to respect than the argument that the United Kingdom has lacked constitutional government since King James II threw the Great Seal into the Thames . |
| 3 | Roz Scott Huxley at Manchester Computing Centre has also written a user note for SASPAC91 on the Manchester mainframe ; in addition to explaining commands relating to SASPAC91 , it also assumes the user is not familiar with CMS ( the Conversational Monitor System running on the mainframe ) and the XEDIT editor , and takes them step by step through creating a command file , running it interactively , offline or remotely , and collecting the output ( Scott Huxley 1993 ) . |
| 4 | He can call his bluff and ask to see the quotations ; he can take the initiative by stating that he assumes the buyer is wishing for him to justify his price ; or , if flushed with the confidence of past success , he can say ‘ Then I advise you to accept one of them . ’ |
| 5 | Note that the description above assumes the issue is a straight fixed rate bond . |
| 6 | The above analysis assumes the basis is affected by only S , D and r . |
| 7 | Let us assume the player is unsure where to begin ; he knows only that his chord playing is below par and wishes to improve it . |
| 8 | From the woman 's protests , Seb assumed the drink was hers . |
| 9 | Did you ever have a problem with family , friends , or women in your life who automatically assumed the boy was you ? |
| 10 | I assumed the square was a ditch surrounding the site , as ditches often show as dark lines . |
| 11 | I liked that about him : he never assumed the kettle was on or that I was free . |
| 12 | It 's what the Romans said when they assumed the answer was no . |
| 13 | oh , good , huh , I assumed the answer was no |
| 14 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 15 | I assumed the Maggot was delivering or picking up a customer , but it was none of my business , so I stripped down to my shorts and began work as Thessy , his brother Philemon and their father took a battered wooden skiff across the lagoon . |
| 16 | e. you assumed the surgeon was a man . |
| 17 | The Sandrat assumed the chapter was finished . |
| 18 | His mistake may have been to assume the election was won before it was fought . |
| 19 | Denzil Kobbekaduwa , who had been due to assume the post was killed in August after being ambushed by LTTE forces off the Jaffna Peninsula [ see p. 39053 ] . |
| 20 | Looking at who played , I assume the line-up was . |
| 21 | In criticising the text-as-product view of cohesion in text , Morgan ( 1979 ) argues that we see a link between a particular pronoun and a full noun phrase in a text because we assume the text is coherent and not because the pronoun ‘ refers back ’ to the noun phrase . |
| 22 | He found traces of human skin on its teeth , so I think we kin safely assume the damage wuz inflicted by some kinda karate blow . |
| 23 | Answer guide : If we assume the rent is paid in arrears then the entries would be to reduce cash and charge an expense of £50 . |
| 24 | Assume the picture is a typical sample of the British people . |
| 25 | ‘ I — er — I assume the house is empty now . |
| 26 | Assume the owner is of type B. We have extended B 's utility function and drawn in the line joining — £211 and £1789 to get the expected income . |
| 27 | Similarly , the yield to next call is the yield to maturity assuming the bond is called on the next available call date . |
| 28 | Assuming the past is irrecoverable , the obvious fall-back positions are ethnicity and religion , singly or in combination . |
| 29 | ‘ And that 's assuming the machine is programmed not to double back along the same path . |
| 30 | As they decanted themselves McLeish managed to agree quickly with Teversham that , assuming the identification was confirmed , he would take Francis Morgan and Miss Williams back , leaving Catherine and himself at the site . |