Example sentences of "assume that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It assumes that a single factor can be found that correlates closely with demand . |
| 2 | This example assumes that a sympathy for motorists with overwhelm any tendency to logical analysis . |
| 3 | It is commonplace to hear people claiming to learn by their mistakes but that assumes that a mistake is recognized as such . |
| 4 | Wittgenstein pointed out that no account is satisfactory that assumes that a human somehow surveys the alternatives and chooses one : ‘ It is as if I should say that the application of a word does not pass in one moment in front of my eye ’ ( 1964 : 15 ) . |
| 5 | Since Poulantzas insists on an objective analysis of classes , and since he assumes that a satisfactory definition ought to characterise all classes without exception , he rejects historicism on the grounds that it has failed to escape from the problematic of individualism . |
| 6 | This method assumes that a multinational 's subsidiaries , incorporated in different countries , are operating at arm's-length from their parent , paying market prices for the goods and services each imports from elsewhere in the group . |
| 7 | It assumes that a user wants to work only within NeXTstep , not on a Unix command line , something it claims other products have failed to realise . |
| 8 | This strategy assumes that a reciprocal rebalancing of power in the work' group will occur through the emergence of maintenance behaviours ; in fact , a very different set of relationships may emerge , and not without some intra-group conflict . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The IRR method implicitly assumes that a project 's annual cash flows can be reinvested at the project 's internal rate of return ; the NPV method assumes that the cash flows can be reinvested at the firm 's opportunity cost of capital . |
| 11 | l he theory assumes that a certain degree of order and stability are essential for the survival of social systems . |
| 12 | The positivist approach assumes that a science of society is possible . |
| 13 | This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question . |
| 14 | The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event . |
| 15 | One assumes that a subsiding island originally possessed merely a fringing reef . |
| 16 | The Act assumes that a company probably will maintain a register if it issues debenture stock or a series of debentures and the Act contains provisions , similar to , but not identical with , those relating to the membership register , concerning where the register shall be kept and who shall be entitled to inspect and obtain copies of it . |
| 17 | One of the simplest differential growth models assumes that a firm has two stages : a growth stage and a mature stage . |
| 18 | The kinetic theory of gases assumes that a gas consists of particles of negligible volume . |
| 19 | And then further in the plan , it deals with the er migration issue , and it says , New household t New household total still assumes that a substantial amount of housing will need to be met outside Leeds as a result of net outward migration from the district . |
| 20 | LA assumes that a word can be present only if all of its constituent phonemes are present for one of its pronunciations . |
| 21 | Catechesis differs from evangelisation in that catechesis assumes that a faith commitment has been made by the participants . |
| 22 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 23 | In doing so , he broke the ‘ fourth wall ’ rule , which assumes that an invisible wall separates the studio/TV audience from the home of the sitcom family . |
| 24 | This view assumes that an intervention can be biologically potent and yet non-toxic . |
| 25 | This model assumes that an individual accepts the first job whose wage dominates the benefit level adjusted for the disutility of work ( see ( 6 ) and ( 7 ) ) . |
| 26 | There is no shortage of examples of defendants in rape cases who assumed that a woman who said no really meant yes , or who inferred from other supposed clues ( make-up , clothing , accepting a drink ) that the victim had consented , despite her apparent protests . |
| 27 | I assumed that a medieval abbey had been restored , as at Holy Cross . |
| 28 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 29 | In 1862 , James Clerk Maxwell wrote his famous paper in the Philosophical Magazine in which he assumed that a time-varying electric field ( the displacement current ) would also generate a magnetic field . |
| 30 | Yang ( 1985 ) assumed that a library was a microcosm of the written language ; creators of the LOB corpus relied on the comprehensiveness of established bibliographic sources ( Hofland & Johansson , 1982 ) . |