Example sentences of "[noun sg] assume [conj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a new thought struck him — another murder might lead his superior to assume that Surere was , after all , still hiding out in the Southern Capital , and that , too , would hardly be to Merymose 's credit . |
| 2 | It would be a mistake to assume that sleep is a period when the body is marking time and just ticking over idly . |
| 3 | While it may be true to say that the one predominates in Christianity and the other in such Eastern religions as Buddhism and Hinduism , it would be a mistake to assume that Christianity is devoid of the principle of identity or that Buddhism and Hinduism are devoid of the principle of participation . |
| 4 | Nye derived equations for glacier flow assuming that ice is a perfectly plastic substance , that it flows down a valley of constant slope , and that the conditions of temperature , accumulation and ablation are simple and uniform , and his model could be compared with field observations . |
| 5 | Both Stalinism and Sartreanism assume that history is an emancipatory process of self-realization , even if the forces of production in the one are replaced by the praxis of the self-conscious human subject in the other . |