Example sentences of "assumption [that] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common to the passages quoted above is the assumption that it is possible to denounce ‘ academicism ’ or ‘ professionalism ’ whilst being a member of the academic profession . |
| 2 | Yet even migraine detained me with its potential , at first because of the popular assumption that it is above all a neurotic disorder and therefore confined to unstable personalities . |
| 3 | Now there is a wide open structural trap here for all the participants , including teacher , for inherent in this scene is the assumption that it is leading to a decision — and decision-making , as every chess player and bridge player knows , is an important element of the game . |
| 4 | The argument for neutrality still rests on the further assumption that it is in people 's highest interest to adopt principles fulfilling the social role of justice . |
| 5 | Psychometric evaluation is based on the assumption that it is possible to expose experimental and control groups to different treatments , while all other variables are controlled , and to measure changes by means of psychometric tests , achievement tests or attitude scales . |
| 6 | Created in Walworth Road , they were based on the assumption that it is possible to bribe one set of electors with money extracted from the pockets of another set . |
| 7 | There are also powerful and persuasive attempts to analyse the origin and fabrication of racism itself , contesting the assumption that it is an inevitable , permanent , and eternal part of all social landscapes . |
| 8 | There is a popular assumption that it is men rather than women who feel the full effects of retirement . |
| 9 | All are important elements of life in old age , and in maintaining both independence and freedom from ill-health , yet older people often avoid taking exercise because of the widespread ageist assumption that it is dangerous for them to be too active . |
| 10 | In general , there is less understanding extended to those with ‘ parent care ’ problems than ‘ child care ’ problems , despite the power of the social assumption that it is ‘ women 's work ’ . |
| 11 | The approaches to gathering linguistic information described in the next chapter are all based on the assumption that it is possible to sample a child 's language and that , under certain conditions , this will provide a useful indication of the child 's linguistic ability in other situations . |
| 12 | First , there is the assumption that it is fair and safe to con fine policy decisions to institutions other than the courts . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Van Uden model of language-learning is the assumption that it is permissible to concentrate on language structure at the cost of language function . |
| 14 | The relationship of underachievement with employability is constructed through an assumption that it is the lack of academic achievement which renders black students unemployable ( Scarman , 1981 ) . |
| 15 | Most researchers start from the assumption that it is morally wrong to conduct research on people who do not know that they are being studied , and will therefore tell them at least that they are writing a book , even if they are not wholly frank about what the book is going to be about . |
| 16 | Implicit in some definitions for differentiated learning is the assumption that it is the child who has the ‘ problem ’ when there is a breakdown in learning . |
| 17 | But when the proof comes it also turns out to rest on the assumption that it is already true . |
| 18 | This does not mean that national history and culture will not bulk large in the educational systems of particular countries , especially the smaller ones , or that they may not flourish locally within a much broader supranational framework as , say , Catalan culture today flourishes , but on the tacit assumption that it is Catalans who will communicate with the rest of the world through Spanish and English , since few non-residents in Catalonia will be able to communicate in the local language . |
| 19 | There is a tendency to regard mains water as pure and to keep this for special purposes while using one of the other supplies for , say , bulk-washing on the assumption that it is less pure ; this may not always be true . |
| 20 | We have so far been making the simplifying assumption that it is clear , in all cases , what the original text consists of . |
| 21 | What is problematic about this is the common assumption that it is caused by , and in turn indicates , some relationship of efficiency between the object and its use , such that this is the prime reason for its particular form , being either the natural outcome of adaptation , or the product of deliberate design processes for industrial goods . |
| 22 | They all share the misleading assumption that it is possible to produce a singular , uncontestable , objective and accurate representation of the reality external to the literary or photographic or any other text . |
| 23 | A central feature of Goffmann 's approach to non-verbal behaviour is his assumption that it is to be visualised against the background of institutional norms which create the salient facts of social life . |
| 24 | The attempt now is to provide care on a community rather than an institutional basis , on the assumption that it is good to retain the mentally disordered within the community as far as possible and help to rehabilitate and reintegrate those who have had to go into hospitals for treatment . |
| 25 | It rests on the assumption that it is possible to produce large quantities of almost identical items in a modem industrial process , and therefore it is possible to establish certain tolerances within which quality is acceptable , and outside which it is not acceptable . |
| 26 | The research starts from the assumption that it is a product 's competitive edge rather than its design per se that determines its performance . |
| 27 | The same authors also question the assumption that it is too costly for politicians to develop effective means of financial scrutiny , pointing to evidence that instruments of control are widely used systematically and rationally , implying that the preferences of sponsors and citizens are likely to be adequately reflected in the supply of public goods ( Breton and Wintrobe , 1975 , pp. 202–4 ) . |
| 28 | Graph ( a ) shows the Keynesian speculative demand for money ( L s ) on the assumption that it is inversely related to the rate of interest between the interest rates Oi and Oi , 1 : above Oi 1 , the speculative demand is assumed to be zero and below Oi , it is assumed to be perfectly elastic . |