Example sentences of "assume [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( For the moment we shall assume that the public 's payments for the bonds come from their expenditure on consumption goods . ) |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible . |
| 4 | We may assume that the caution was in the following terms : ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so , but what you say may be given in evidence . ’ |
| 5 | Again , one might assume that the change of position occurred without any feelings of attitude-change or dissonance . |
| 6 | B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B. |
| 7 | The way of obtaining C outlined above does not assume that the Moon is in hydrostatic equilibrium , which is just as well because it is not . |
| 8 | Furthermore , we will assume that the sector to which we are referring accounts for a sufficiently small part of consumer expenditure that income effects are unimportant . |
| 9 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 10 | The scholar may assume that the consensus is the same as his or her own idea of crime . |
| 11 | One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency . |
| 12 | It does , of course , assume that the company has some unique product or process ( preferably protected by patent ) that an overseas company will want to manufacture . |
| 13 | Occasionally overlap may have the opposite effect due to the ‘ falling between two stools ’ phenomenon , two operators at the same level or at different levels may each assume that the other has taken a particular action which they both know is required . |
| 14 | But there 's no doubt that if we do assume that the cuckoo 's gape is a powerful drug-like superstimulus , it becomes very much easier to explain what is going on . |
| 15 | We would assume that the discussion , in such a case , would cease to be a discussion which appealed to primarily linguistic evidence in this piece of discourse . |
| 16 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 17 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 18 | We must assume that the density of information packing in spoken language is appropriate for the listener to process comfortably . |
| 19 | This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water . |
| 20 | Again , for simplicity we shall assume that the price level is believed to remain unchanged over the period of the contract , so we can write : |
| 21 | We will assume that the date is 1 April . |
| 22 | Can we honestly assume that the way they are in school will be the way they relate to an employer , or to younger children in an adventure playground ? |
| 23 | One is that it is doubtful in the extreme whether one can assume that the legislature always intended the tribunal to be the arbiter as to what the contents of the bracket ought to be . |
| 24 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 25 | We must assume that the problem for the discourse analyst is , in this case , identical to the problem for the hearer . |
| 26 | This generally has something to do with the actual failure , but it is possible that the fault is not accurately reflected in this message , so do n't assume that the problem is pin-pointed precisely every time by these messages . |
| 27 | Erm if we 've got erm er a couple say age sixty , and they 've got their personal allowances er as , as usual , er let's assume that the male 's retired and he 's getting an income of five thousand two hundred , let's just suppose . |
| 28 | Let us assume that the survey is fine . |
| 29 | Shall we assume that the Home Secretary , too , will grant a reprieve to William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw Haw ’ ) because by January 3 , 1946 , the date of his execution , Germany had ceased to be an enemy country ? |
| 30 | We will assume that the evaluation of every occam expression yields a value ( even though it may contain division by zero or an uninitialised identifier ) . |