Example sentences of "[prep] assume [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of assuming that the discharge of patients from psychiatric institutions is to blame we should be studying carefully the pathways that lead mentally ill people into homelessness and destitution . |
| 2 | Now consider the result of assuming that the shift in the aggregate demand curve from AD to AD 1 was entirely unpredictable , the result of a positive value for the random error term in the process determining aggregate demand . |
| 3 | We therefore , quite understandably , make the error of assuming that the world is essentially a visual one . |
| 4 | These matters should be sorted out before assuming that the conversation is impossible , and starting to write down the information one wants to communicate . |
| 5 | No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree . |
| 6 | In spite of the great advance in knowledge , we made a grave error in assuming that the stone wall was built with the rampart . |
| 7 | As a member of that Council I emphatically deny that he has had any mandate , or that he is justified in assuming that the Council as a whole takes his view . |
| 8 | However , he did not allow her to become too swamped with nervous , trembling uncertainty , as he began to talk calmly and reasonably about his brother 's future life in America , describing some of the amusing mistakes he himself had made in assuming that the English and the Americans spoke the same language — when , in fact , so many words had different meanings . |
| 9 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 10 | There is , as yet , no evidence that Ac-ASA inside the mucosa is inactive , and indeed there are good theoretical reasons for assuming that the drug present in the highest local concentration is the active one . |
| 11 | If this had happened , and if one could state confidently that the Parliament of England had survived these events , albeit in an altered state , whereas the parliaments first , of Scotland , and later , of Ireland , had disappeared from the scene , then there would be some warrant for assuming that the law , customs , conventions and powers of the Parliament of England had survived , whereas those of the others had not . |
| 12 | Furthermore , there are good grounds for assuming that the distinction between sentence processing and discourse processing is by no means a clear one . |
| 13 | It is for this reason that Keynesian stabilization policies have been criticized for relying on the ‘ unexplained postulate ’ of wage rigidity and for assuming that the form of wage and price rigidity , the form of wage and price contracts , is exogenously given rather than determined by , amongst other things , the type of monetary and fiscal policies being carried out . |
| 14 | They rely on assuming that the logarithm of futures prices follows a random walk , and that futures prices are continuously generated and recorded . |
| 15 | It had been assumed in the first phase of the research ( in the inner-city areas ) that considerable variation in length could be accommodated within the standard paradigm by assuming that the feature [ +low ] implied [ -long ] and vice versa . |
| 16 | " We start by assuming that the telephone call to Mrs. Bidwell and Lorrimer 's death are connected . " |
| 17 | In [ 26 ] they suggest that the extra contextual effects are derived by assuming that the speaker attaches a higher confirmation value to the proposition expressed than the hearer would have otherwise thought . |
| 18 | And this is sort of right at the beginning , by assuming that the function was continuous when it was n't . |
| 19 | Most representations of this model adroitly sidestepped the indeterminacy problem by assuming that the level of money wages was an institutionally determined datum . |
| 20 | It may be simplified by assuming that the share is held to infinity . |
| 21 | The number of contacts can be estimated from the lattice model by assuming that the probability of having a lattice cell occupied by a solvent molecule is simply the volume fraction φ 1 . |
| 22 | Initially the argument can be simplified by assuming that the motor/load combination has a high inertia , so that variations in motor torque lead to only small changes in motor speed . |
| 23 | By assuming that the phase current has reached its rated value a " worst case " estimate of the freewheeling resistance power rating is obtained . |
| 24 | In these circumstances the average torque produced by the motor while it is moving from position 8e to 8 , with phases BC excited is : The problem can now be simplified by assuming that the torque over the excitation interval is effectively constant and equal to this average value . |
| 25 | The high transverse velocities inferred for the three pulsars may be avoided by assuming that the pulsar and SNR are much older ( by 10 times ) than the characteristic spin-down time , so that the remnant is in the older radiative phase for which Shull et al. |
| 26 | by assuming that the quality of learning relates to a tightly-structured programme of assessable achievement . |