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Example sentences of "assuming [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	There is , as yet , no evidence that Ac-ASA inside the mucosa is inactive , and indeed there are good theoretical reasons for assuming that the drug present in the highest local concentration is the active one .
2	Bayes 's tentative solution to the problem involves assuming that the lack of knowledge of the probability about which an inference is to be made may be represented by a uniform probability distribution , for which he gives an ingenious argument .
3	Instead of assuming that the discharge of patients from psychiatric institutions is to blame we should be studying carefully the pathways that lead mentally ill people into homelessness and destitution .
4	Assuming that the school had not confirmed its booking , so that rescheduling was still a possibility , it might depend on , for example , whether there was any other suitable time during the year for the trip to take place .
5	If , therefore , the normal population in this age group was screened at five year intervals , and assuming that the polyp/carcinoma sequence takes longer than five years , 190 cases of cancer or premalignant polyp would be found per 50000 examinations — that is , 1 in 263 : a higher detection rate in the normal population than that achieved by annual colonoscopic surveillance of extensive longstanding ulcerative ulcerative colitis .
6	This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints .
7	If it should be made in conjunction with the Corvedale line , assuming that the capital is raised for that line , it may be too late then to enquire how trains are to run from Lydham village to Bishop 's Castle , which now might be placed on the main line , or what expenditure will be necessary to make the roads to Lydham village as suitable for the inhabitants of Norbury , Wentnor , &c. , as those over which they at present travel to Lydham Heath .
8	‘ I notice you 're all assuming that the boy was murdered .
9	The holding-period yield , rh ( assuming that the bond is bought on a coupon payment date ( so that AI = 0 ) and sold an even number of coupon payment dates later ( so that T is an integer ) ) , is calculated using where r i is the rollover rate of interest earned by the ith coupon payment and P 1 is the price at which the bond was sold .
10	The yield to first call is the yield to maturity assuming that the bond is redeemed on the first call date .
11	Assuming there is a transfer of value and consequently a reduction in the value of the estate of Mr X which does not arise from the disposal of excluded property , and further assuming that the transfer is not an exempt transfer , one is left with a chargeable transfer on which inheritance tax is payable starting at nil per cent ( the nil rate band ) and 40 per cent .
12	Allowing 10 minutes per client for collection each week , assuming the collector gets rather less than average industrial earnings and himself copes with all the paperwork involved during those 10 minutes , and assuming that the trading check firm pays the shops where the check has been used ( less its commission — perhaps 12½ per cent ) about a month after writing the check , the actual return to the lender would work out at only 7 per cent — that is to say , less than the firm 's own borrowing costs would be , even without making any allowance for either bad debts and late payments or office overheads .
13	In spite of the great advance in knowledge , we made a grave error in assuming that the stone wall was built with the rampart .
14	Gall bladder volumes were calculated from the measured parameters with the software of the ultrasound unit , assuming that the shape of the gall bladder approximated a solid with elliptical sections , the excentricity depending on that at the level of the greatest transverse section .
15	Assuming that the success of the leader and of the team are inseparable , combinations of the four variables give rise to eight categories .
16	Assuming that the company concerned is owner-controlled , the intention would presumably be to distribute any cash in excess of the nominal share capital to the owner shareholders .
17	Applications must be processed Assuming that the company requires a range of different skills , the applications must be divided into groups according to their suitability for the different posts Some applicants may appear in more than one group , in which case some account will need to be taken of their preferences Managers involved in the selection process must choose those to be invited for initial interview .
18	These matters should be sorted out before assuming that the conversation is impossible , and starting to write down the information one wants to communicate .
19	Most representations of this model adroitly sidestepped the indeterminacy problem by assuming that the level of money wages was an institutionally determined datum .
20	And this is sort of right at the beginning , by assuming that the function was continuous when it was n't .
21	In [ 26 ] they suggest that the extra contextual effects are derived by assuming that the speaker attaches a higher confirmation value to the proposition expressed than the hearer would have otherwise thought .
22	Assuming that the government of the day has a comfortable majority in the House of Commons , executive dominance over the legislature and control over the processes of decision making becomes possible .
23	Assuming that the government returns the proceeds of the tax in lump-sum form , the condition for equilibrium in the labour market is unchanged , and the new equilibrium is ( the scale of firms in the manufacturing sector is unaltered ) .
24	Assuming that the government has plenty of other policy measures at its disposal — tax incentives , subsidies to private activities , competition policy , industrial policy , and so on the key question in reaching an assessment is surely a simple one : are enterprises more efficient in the public or the private sector ?
25	We are assuming that the knowledge concepts and skills , also the development of attitudes and personal qualities , will be delivered through the foundation subjects , options , extra-curricular activities , tutorial and careers guidance programme , and our extensive individual staff-student consultations which are a major feature of the school 's work , and perhaps more than anything else manifest our central concern for the academic and personal needs of each student .
26	The best that can be achieved then , assuming that the guarantee was given after 11 April 1978 , is a CGT loss claim of £10,000 under s 136(4) ( 11 ) , CGTA 1979 .
27	No amount of reflection on first principles will stop a Christian from assuming that the morality demanded of women , which in Islam he judges to be imposed by the physically stronger sex in its own interests , is in his own religion true to the equality of the sexes before God ; not until women become conscious of and vocal about their own interests does he appreciate that the difference from Islam has from the very first been only one of degree .
28	Assuming that the density m of the disrupted cylinder remains constant , h and m can be eliminated from equation ( 5 ) , to give This equation is functionally identical ( differing by only a factor of order unity ) to the analogous equation derived by Zahnle using a wholly different argument .
29	It had been assumed in the first phase of the research ( in the inner-city areas ) that considerable variation in length could be accommodated within the standard paradigm by assuming that the feature [ +low ] implied [ -long ] and vice versa .
30	Assuming that the organ is likely to remain the most common instrument for worship , the Commission urges parishes and dioceses to set up schemes to encourage people to learn the organ .