Example sentences of "assume [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This model assumes that communication involves a transmitter who forms his message from the information source into signals to be reconstructed by the receiver to allow the message to reach its destination . |
| 2 | And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself . |
| 3 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 4 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 5 | Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance . |
| 6 | The interaction between arousal and retention interval has been interpreted as evidence for Walker 's action decrement theory ( Walker , 1958 ; Walker & Tarte , 1963 ) which assumes that memory traces require a period of consolidation which can be enhanced by arousal , but which initially inhibits access to the trace . |
| 7 | In my view the authenticity argument is invalid because it does not distinguish between the two questions : it confuses ends and means and assumes that teaching language for communication is the same as teaching language as communication ( cf. |
| 8 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 9 | The above analysis assumes that capital movements only arise from differences in productivity . |
| 10 | This argument assumes that space and time are infinitely divisible , but not all of Zeno 's arguments involve this assumption . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the model assumes that government spending is determined mainly by factors outside the circular flow . |
| 13 | In this sense he assumes that government policy is subject to the same degree of stickiness as prices . |
| 14 | This assumes that home address does not change during the transfer period(s) . |
| 15 | The traditional theory of the firm assumes that profit maximisation is the objective of all firms and , on this basis , in competitive markets , high profits are a sign of success and efficiency . |
| 16 | Such an approach also assumes that management would be willing to pay for a large project , accept the risks involved and get little reward in terms of information systems for a number of years . |
| 17 | He too glibly assumes that correlation proves causality and he does not show — as he could have done — that the balance of evidence does indeed suggest a causal association . |
| 18 | The president evidently assumes that Labour is likelier to muster a majority in parliament . |
| 19 | The Court assumes that failure to explain why it was not practicable to obtain a report from such a doctor will make the admission unlawful , and the same point is made by Professor Hoggett ( Mental Health Law ( 3rd ed. ) at pp.102–103 ) , who also stresses that the administrative arrangements for medical cover does not necessarily make it impracticable to obtain a recommendation from a doctor who knows the prospective patient . |
| 20 | Current research assumes that crime and justice do not exist in a social vacuum , that they are at least partially political creations , and that they are inextricably involved in society . |
| 21 | A traditional linguistics which studies the formal properties of a language ( its lexicon , phonology , graphology ) assumes that meaning is conveyed through correct application of the rules by users . |
| 22 | First , it assumes that pragmatism provides the best explanation of how judges actually decide cases . |
| 23 | The second objection is that the ownership justification erroneously assumes that property rights are absolute . |
| 24 | A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society . |
| 25 | Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character . |
| 26 | This conclusion assumes that phytoplankton productivity can be usefully indexed by biomass levels , which is inappropriate when applied to the North Pacific . |
| 27 | The major difference between these two forms is that CPM assumes that the time required to complete an activity can be predicted fairly accurately , and thus the costs involved can be quantified once the critical path has been identified , whereas PERT assumes that time has to be estimated in drawing up the critical path . |
| 28 | Competitive conditions also ensure that firms have no discretion over the quality of goods supplied , since failure to match the quality or provide the features demanded by the market ( the model assumes that market participants possess full product information and knowledge of alternative opportunities ) would mean that a firm would lose all its business to competitors . |
| 29 | An upward-sloping supply curve assumes that interest rates are determined by the market : by the interaction of supply and demand for money . |
| 30 | Freud assumes that nature dominates man and seems to threaten humanity with hostile happenings — earthquakes , floods and storms , illnesses and death itself . |