Example sentences of "assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sinking air even this would not be enough to allow for much choice and , of course , it assumes that the descent will be made over open countryside and not amongst hills or moorland . |
| 2 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 3 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 4 | All of the above assumes that the only influence on the core is the magnetic field produced by the excitation coil . |
| 5 | The data in Table I ( drawn from work published by B R McLeod and Abraham Liboff ) assumes that H is exclusively the geomagnetic field strength . |
| 6 | Which assumes that the latter is an alternative to the former , rather than a consequence . |
| 7 | This assumes that all the women who are found to be carrying a child with Down 's syndrome will want to terminate their pregnancies . |
| 8 | But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work . |
| 9 | It assumes that a single factor can be found that correlates closely with demand . |
| 10 | It assumes that the countries ' markets are analogous . |
| 11 | Cambridge , which always assumes that anyone who leaves it passes into outer darkness , found the decision incomprehensible . |
| 12 | Having pointed out the peculiarity and arbitrariness of this notion he then assumes that , in other systems , the relation of man to his material environment is visualized differently . |
| 13 | Jayne Greenwell also assumes that the existence of God is not a fact but ‘ a matter of opinion ’ . |
| 14 | Although the aims of the charter are laudable , ensuring adequate social security , the right of employees to join a union and the right to strike , among other things , they could be unworkable if one assumes that some closer links between the emerging countries of the Eastern bloc and the West — including German reunification . |
| 15 | He assumes that ‘ ordinary ’ pop fans are attuned to reading off ‘ subversion ’ or ‘ importance ’ in the same way music press readers are — it 's an approach in which you have to be initiated . |
| 16 | The standard approach to trade reform assumes that devaluing the currency makes firms competitive . |
| 17 | The president evidently assumes that Labour is likelier to muster a majority in parliament . |
| 18 | The thesis assumes that all enemies other than the Soviet Union will have second-rate weapons . |
| 19 | The study assumes that spending on pensions as a proportion of GDP increases in line with countries ' old-age dependency ratios . |
| 20 | Yet a surprisingly large proportion of market research is still based on the spending patterns of the baby boomers ' parents , and so implicitly assumes that they are all but identical . |
| 21 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 22 | A second criticism is that the theory assumes that all emotional response is the same . |
| 23 | His delusions were those of a messenger boy who assumes that because he takes the Chief Architect 's drawings to the print room , he has played a leading role in the design of the building . |
| 24 | This example assumes that a sympathy for motorists with overwhelm any tendency to logical analysis . |
| 25 | This assumes that there is a tension between the causing of serious harm ( death ) and the relatively low fault ( ‘ recklessness ’ , as here defined ) , and that this tension should be resolved in favour of the fault element when we are deciding on the labels of offences , thereby making no reference to the result , but should be resolved in favour of the serious harm when sentencing , increasing the sentence according to the gravity of the resulting harm . |
| 26 | Marx simply assumes that how we know things is not a problem . |
| 27 | Firstly , he assumes that the 120 players fielded by the other eight League One clubs on any given Saturday would be purely ‘ English-qualified ’ . |
| 28 | He similarly assumes that exile players are only qualified for the clubs ' ostensible countries of origin . |
| 29 | All market research , even the Japanese kind , assumes that people reply truthfully to questions . |
| 30 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |