Example sentences of "[verb] assume [conj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem was that everyone seemed to assume that Gouzenko was an expert on every facet of Russian intelligence operations . |
| 2 | Since most foreigners know only of the Phoenix King and the pre-eminence of Eataine they tend to assume that Ulthuan is a far more homogeneous bloc than in fact it is . |
| 3 | But to test , for example , the assumption about item difficulty being independent of the student requires assuming that ability is unidimensional ; in other words it can not be tested ! |
| 4 | To have seen him and de Castelnau together , one might well have assumed that Pétain was the born aristocrat , the squat and rather swarthy general the peasant ; though in fact it was the reverse . |
| 5 | In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market . |