Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] assume that [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , let us assume that we are interested in individuals . |
| 2 | Let us assume that you are a woman of medium height , doing a job like housework , which requires a moderate amount of physical activity , and that you are about one stone overweight and just about to embark on trying to lose it . |
| 3 | This leads us to assume that there are such causes for behaviour and we then seek to know the reasons for this . |
| 4 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 5 | Well she says Michael has n't rung so she said I assume that he 's coming cos if he 's going to be late , if he 's anywhere reasonable |
| 6 | Notice that it does n't help us to assume that there is a powerful nonrandom " selection pressure " . |