Example sentences of "assumption [be] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the basic assumption is that the developmental process is failure-driven : actions are continually failing to fulfil the assimilatory intention ( recall the term Functionlust that I used earlier ) and must therefore be modified . |
| 2 | One widespread assumption is that the documents shown to the Irish News were probably genuine , but this does not necessarily indicate an organisation is in operation . |
| 3 | One fundamental assumption is that the atmosphere has had the same 14 C concentration in the past as now , and this in turn assumes , amongst other things , that the production rate of 14 C has remained constant . |
| 4 | The common assumption is that the survival of the monarchy is proof of the enduring British attachment to its hallucination . |
| 5 | The reason behind this assumption is that the force of gravitational contraction becomes stronger as the collapse proceeds and the gap between its power and the resistance offered by any surviving internal pressures widens with time . |
| 6 | In other words , the assumption is that the transformation from money-capital to commodity-capital and back to money-capital again will find no external barriers , other than the market . |
| 7 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 8 | Since the assumption is that the child will carry around any new linguistic knowledge , there will be no need to take any account of the environment within which the teaching takes place . |
| 9 | The first assumption is that the intervention is not of overall benefit to this patient . |
| 10 | A key assumption is that the money supply is exogenous — uninfluenced by economic activity — but is controllable by the monetary authorities . |
| 11 | The implicit but unstated assumption is that the various forms of provision , ranging from residential to long-stay geriatric care , are entirely substitutable . |
| 12 | It is worth carrying out this simple exercise to disprove the common fallacy that the shape derived from chopping off the top of the cone at an angle is egg shaped ( the assumption is that the end closest to the base of the cone has a larger radius because the cone is larger there ) , in fact both ends have the same radius , it 's an ellipse — try it . |
| 13 | A second common assumption is that the sciences , generally , are more difficult than the humanities , and that within that , physics is more difficult than chemistry , which is more difficult than biology , and so on . |
| 14 | Hoyle 's major assumption is that the school as a social system can be creative . |
| 15 | A reasonable assumption is that the traditional dialect lexicon is at present in Durham being replaced rather rapidly by standard lexical items , and the same general pattern of variation is likely to be characteristic of regions such as the Scottish Lowlands where the local vernacular is historically distinct from any supra-local standard . |
| 16 | The justification for this assumption is that the arbitrage transaction is riskless , and so repayment is guaranteed . |
| 17 | This assumption is that the price of assets are unaffected by the arbitrage transactions . |
| 18 | First , its underlying assumption is that the number of entities that the world consists of is finite . |
| 19 | The second assumption is that the shape of the distribution remains unchanged with temperature , that is , the magnitudes of each relaxation change uniformly with temperature . |
| 20 | The Prague School 's and Jakobson 's assumption is that the structures they describe are all objectively present in literature , and can be perceived by anyone who reads with sufficient skill and attention . |
| 21 | The nature of that artefact , its meanings and position within the culture may be open to debate , but the assumption is that the document is there to be deciphered . |
| 22 | The second assumption is that the stream can not move backwards on itself , that is , reverse its direction or join itself . |
| 23 | The third assumption is that the stream terminates at the edge of the grid . |
| 24 | If the assumption is that the rent is paid in advance then the entry would be to reduce cash and open an asset account for a prepayment . |
| 25 | This is because the assumption is that the significance of the icon is based upon the faith of the believer and so the possibility of a meeting between the believer and that Reality is discounted from the start . |
| 26 | The monetarist assumption is that the velocity of circulation of broad money is more or less constant . |
| 27 | The assumption was that the police had been given enough information to pick up the terrorists quickly . |
| 28 | The underlying assumption was that the likelihood of marriage between people from different villages drops off with increase in geographical distance between the villages . |
| 29 | The other assumption was that the performance of the sows would be the same on both systems while acknowledging the need for extra feed at 100kg a sow in order to maintain condition outdoors . |
| 30 | The guiding assumption was that the school curriculum should differ according to the ability of the child who would follow it . |