Example sentences of "[adj] assume that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question . |
| 3 | ( This assumes that the government does not allow the exchange rate to appreciate . ) |
| 4 | In one sense , new book selection is a way of filling in or updating between stock revisions , but this assumes that the whole of a stock is updated , subject by subject , over a limited timespan , and because stock revision is a highly staff-intensive process that is rarely the case . |
| 5 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |
| 6 | This assumes that the behaviour of individuals that is part of the organization 's structure of authority can be isolated from other roles and other aspects of behaviour . |
| 7 | This assumes that the plasma free amino acid pool is representative of the precursor for pancreatic enzyme synthesis . |
| 8 | Obviously in the winter it still may not provide enough and will have to be supplemented with concentrates and this assumes that the pasture has been well maintained and is not overstocked . |
| 9 | This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model , right back to the big bang . |
| 10 | This assumes that the diet you are going to follow is reduced by 500 to 1,000 calories per day , which will then have to be derived from your body 's fat store . |
| 11 | This assumes that the process name is LSTRAIN , hence that is the name of the command file , and that the user access symbol is also LSTRAIN . |
| 12 | ‘ This assumes that the investment managers are making an average return of around 13 per cent a year — which they should be able to do , given that a PEP is effectively a tax- free fund . |
| 13 | This assumes that the period of Newco 's ownership of shares in Target would be sufficiently short for there to have been no increase in their value , so that when the capital distribution takes place , there is no capital gains tax liability on the partners under s122 TCGA 1992 , nor a distribution for the purposes of s209 TA 1988 . |
| 14 | It is unrealistic to assume that a junior will confide in you unless you are prepared to confide in him or her . |
| 15 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 16 | Mr. Latham , for the plaintiff , submitted that it would be quite wrong to assume that the Act of 1976 has effectively satisfied the requirements of justice identified by Lamont J. He observed that our law of limitation leaves scope for a large number of claims still to be brought by plaintiffs born before 1976 . |
| 17 | The elaboration and detail of the scheme and the variety of techniques available under it to protect investors suggests that it would be wrong to assume that the statute and its rulemaking powers should be interpreted as being in the shadow of the common law . |
| 18 | However , it would be wrong to assume that the future will be dominated by a material , objectified consciousness . |
| 19 | ‘ It is wrong to assume that the woman must show signs of injury or that she must always physically resist before there can be a conviction for rape . |
| 20 | While not necessarily accepting the fatalism of this argument , it would be wrong to assume that the balance of power between the sexes can be changed simply by persuading more girls to take ‘ boys ’ subjects ' : the issue is clearly too complex to justify simplistic remedies . |
| 21 | First , he is wrong to assume that the policy to which he refers is espoused only by the Government : until now , there has been a bipartisan commitment to ensuring that mentally ill people receive care and facilities that are properly attuned to their needs . |
| 22 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 23 | It is commonplace to hear people claiming to learn by their mistakes but that assumes that a mistake is recognized as such . |
| 24 | In fact , it is unsafe to assume that the intensity of direct competition between males should necessarily be reduced in monogamous species . |
| 25 | For example , it would n't stretch the truth too much to assume that the organization of the visual system is the same in rhesus monkeys as it is in humans . |
| 26 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 27 | In attempting to help users in searching automated catalogues , it is perhaps too easy to assume that the machine must do it all and that the burden must be removed entirely from the user . |
| 28 | It is easy to assume that the law about planning new developments , or changing the environment around us , only affects us when we need to take a positive step — such as applying for permission to extend our own property . |
| 29 | To simplify the dynamics of the model , it is usual to assume that the market situation in each period is the same : the same population of firms faces the same market demand with the same cost conditions in each period . |
| 30 | This often provides the excuse for ageism , it being simpler to assume that the problem is old age rather than a treatable condition . |