Example sentences of "we assume that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall we assume that the Home Secretary , too , will grant a reprieve to William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw Haw ’ ) because by January 3 , 1946 , the date of his execution , Germany had ceased to be an enemy country ? |
| 2 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 3 | Nor should we assume that the parties were static . |
| 4 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 5 | In Belfast we assumed that the number of socially-patterned variables that we might uncover could well run into the hundreds . |
| 6 | When calculating the mutual inductance we assumed that the magnetic field due to I1 appears instantaneously at the second ring . |
| 7 | Recall that we assumed that the nominal quantity of money in the economy , m t , was determined in the following simple way : where g is a known constant ; and v t is a random , serially uncorrelated variable with mean zero , which represents the unpredictable component of the quantity of money , and which we might think of as arising because of , say , faults in the government 's monetary control techniques . |
| 8 | ‘ Are we to assume that the Chancellor walked out carrying three bottles of wine ? ’ |
| 9 | Are we to assume that the defendant might by some slip in pleading , have failed in his defence to that action , if it had proceeded ? |
| 10 | Are we to assume that the actual test will be trialed ? |
| 11 | First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation . |
| 12 | To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise . |
| 13 | When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment . |
| 14 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 15 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 16 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
| 17 | A further mystery is this : if we assume that the motive for building the monuments was a mixture of religion and astronomy , which way round did the process operate ? |
| 18 | If we assume that the relative risk is well approximated by the odds ratio , the percentage of cases that could be attributable to this genotype was 8% in the whole population and 35% in the low-risk group . |
| 19 | As model sensitivity studies showed only minor changes in NO in this range , we assume that the NO concentration remains constant at 3p.p.t.v . |
| 20 | As a first approximation , we assume that the cylinder deforms globally to become a squatter version of itself . |
| 21 | The probability of survival from birth to age 1 is J , and from age 1 to age 2 is A. For simplicity , we assume that the expected fertility is the same at both ages ( ) . |
| 22 | For simplicity , we assume that the effects of different loci multiply , and we neglect linkage disequilibrium and genetic variation , to derive approximations to the survival probabilities , give the optimal life history in the absence of mutation . |
| 23 | We assume that the store is randomly accessible ; that is , the time taken to access a store location in order to store or retrieve information is constant and ( in particular ) is independent of the particular location being accessed and of the location previously accessed . |
| 24 | At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time . |
| 25 | Here we assume that the right-hand bit position represents 2 or one , so that numeric values lie in the range zero to 2 n -1 , where n is the word length . |
| 26 | ( c ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the index register is large enough to hold both fields ; for example , the DEC PDP- 10 uses the two halves of a 36-bit accumulator . |
| 27 | ( d ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the modifier field is always incremented by one , but other arrangements are possible . |
| 28 | We assume that the matrix A is already in upper Hessenberg form . |
| 29 | For simplicity , we assume that the eigenvalues sought are all different . |
| 30 | Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’ |