Example sentences of "[pron] assume that the [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 I assume that the Minister is aware that 750,000 tonnes of CFCs are used in the world every year and that that has resulted in an ozone layer hole as large as Alaska .
2 Two strictly rational players , each of whom assumes that the other is strictly rational , can do nothing but defect if they both know how many rounds the game is destined to run .
3 In particular , in spite of his attempt to avoid positing history as an a priori transcendent law , in the published first volume of the Critique he had still utilized an organicist teleological model of history which assumes that the end is already implicit in the beginning , and that history rolls forward to a determined end .
4 If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute .
5 If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk .
6 Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life .
7 you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping
8 Nor should we assume that the parties were static .
9 It is actually easier to do the calculation if instead of individual turns we assume that the current is continuously distributed on the surface of the cylinder , and work in terms of
10 If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination .
11 Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’
12 We assume that the node is in the second form , so its threshold is 0 .
13 We assume that the store is randomly accessible ; that is , the time taken to access a store location in order to store or retrieve information is constant and ( in particular ) is independent of the particular location being accessed and of the location previously accessed .
14 It assumes that the ions are point charges .
15 No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife .
16 Let us assume that the survey is fine .
17 Let us assume that the directive is fully supported by the Government , who do not wish to amend one jot or comma of it and who are willing to sign up to its immediate implementation .
18 However , let us assume that the habit is broken .
19 The tragic thing is that in reacting against such unhelpful literalism too many of us assume that the war is not real .
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