Example sentences of "assume [art] certain [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Foucault , as we have seen , is also criticized on the grounds that he can not give a cause for the shifts he describes , but this criticism itself begs the question insofar as it assumes a certain kind of history , which itself presupposes that there was a cause in the sense of a single uniform causality , rather than a disconnectedness in the scientific mode .
2 Any substantial evasion increases the burden on those who pay because central government grants assume a certain level of income from the community charge for each local authority .
3 But our estimates obviously assume a certain waiver level .
4 The material which has been gathered supports this contention and it also raises a number of issues concerning the needs of staff , as well as students , at a time when the total quality of the teaching/learning experience is assuming a certain prominence throughout the HE sector .
5 When dealing with younger age groups there is a particular danger of assuming a certain tone of voice and a certain kind of authority .
6 Thus Vaughan is assuming a certain amount of shared knowledge on the part of the reader ; but because we can not , naturally , see things from the perspective of his origo , he must also assist the reader in the assignment of indexical or deictic meanings .
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