Example sentences of "assume that a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LA assumes that a word can be present only if all of its constituent phonemes are present for one of its pronunciations . |
| 2 | This assumes that a test is trying to measure a single dimension of student ability — a trait — and that the difficulty of a test item is independent of both the other items in the test and the groups of students who answer it . |
| 3 | One of the simplest differential growth models assumes that a firm has two stages : a growth stage and a mature stage . |
| 4 | It assumes that a user wants to work only within NeXTstep , not on a Unix command line , something it claims other products have failed to realise . |
| 5 | The kinetic theory of gases assumes that a gas consists of particles of negligible volume . |
| 6 | This example assumes that a sympathy for motorists with overwhelm any tendency to logical analysis . |
| 7 | Catechesis differs from evangelisation in that catechesis assumes that a faith commitment has been made by the participants . |
| 8 | The Act assumes that a company probably will maintain a register if it issues debenture stock or a series of debentures and the Act contains provisions , similar to , but not identical with , those relating to the membership register , concerning where the register shall be kept and who shall be entitled to inspect and obtain copies of it . |
| 9 | It is commonplace to hear people claiming to learn by their mistakes but that assumes that a mistake is recognized as such . |
| 10 | The positivist approach assumes that a science of society is possible . |
| 11 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 12 | The IRR method implicitly assumes that a project 's annual cash flows can be reinvested at the project 's internal rate of return ; the NPV method assumes that the cash flows can be reinvested at the firm 's opportunity cost of capital . |
| 13 | This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question . |
| 14 | The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event . |
| 15 | This model assumes that an individual accepts the first job whose wage dominates the benefit level adjusted for the disutility of work ( see ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) ) . |
| 16 | This view assumes that an intervention can be biologically potent and yet non-toxic . |
| 17 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 18 | There is no shortage of examples of defendants in rape cases who assumed that a woman who said no really meant yes , or who inferred from other supposed clues ( make-up , clothing , accepting a drink ) that the victim had consented , despite her apparent protests . |
| 19 | Yang ( 1985 ) assumed that a library was a microcosm of the written language ; creators of the LOB corpus relied on the comprehensiveness of established bibliographic sources ( Hofland & Johansson , 1982 ) . |
| 20 | I assumed that a crome was C R O M E , and I still do ! |
| 21 | Approach road junctions with great care , consider your road position and your speed , drive on only when you are sure it is safe to do so and that you will not block the junction , watch out for long vehicles which maybe turning left or right , at the junction ahead , but which may have to use to make a turn , when waiting to emerge at a junction , do not assume that a vehicle approaching from the right which is signalling with it 's left hand direction indicator would turn left , wait to make sure do you know what I mean ? |
| 22 | Let us assume that a cat stalks a duck until it gets within striking distance . |
| 23 | We need to ask whether the effects of hypnosis upon human thought processes , on reasoning and memory , are really understood ; whether we can assume that a person under hypnosis truly remembers actual events . |
| 24 | In finding such probabilities , some account should be taken of deaths in the cohort during the year in question ; we can assume that a person dying lives , on average , six months of the year so that the population at risk of marriage at the start of the year should be reduced by half the deaths . |
| 25 | As an example , let us assume that a package exists and that some of the constituent modules are also contained in other packages which have different managers . |
| 26 | If Tretorn wish to bid for tournaments in this Category ( Category A ) , they might assume that a bid from a company producing pressurised balls is likely to succeed . |
| 27 | Would buyers not assume that a valuation based partly on an expert test implied endorsement of that test by the surveyor ? |
| 28 | We shall assume that a ring of radius a situated in the z = 0 plane carries a current I ( Fig. 3.6 ) and we wish to determine the magnetic field at the point |
| 29 | No longer even can ambassadors assume that a knighthood will come along automatically . |
| 30 | However , there are examples which show that we can not always assume that a property word will have a referential locus . |