Example sentences of "be to assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 2 | Our mistake in the past has been to assume that because other forms of life perceive things differently from us , they are necessarily inferior : they are not . |
| 3 | It was lively enough to marry Bellow to a ‘ stylish Radcliffe graduate ’ of whom Roth had been ‘ enamoured ’ — if we are to assume that The Facts has not imagined the connection . |
| 4 | However , this example serves to emphasize how misleading it can be to assume that the breeding sex ratio necessarily reflects the extent to which male reproductive success varies for , even among closely related species , it is likely to be the case that males have substantially longer breeding lifespans in monogamous species than in polygynous ones ( see Wiley , 1974 ; Clutton-Brock et al . , |
| 5 | A reasonable starting point may be to assume that the process will vary for individuals and for different types of text . |
| 6 | In the decretal " Novit ille " , written to the archbishops and bishops of France , Innocent declared how much he has the interests of King Philip Augustus and his kingdom at heart and how wrong it would be to assume that he had any intentions that were harmful to the French king 's jurisdictional powers . |
| 7 | The simplest way of recording answers was therefore felt to be to assume that all those answering ‘ yes ’ to question 1 were also in principle against the proposal in question 2 , thus making the overall response to this question negative . |
| 8 | Not all were as moderate as Somerset 's , with its stress on equality ; the title of one of the others , Nicholas Bodrugan 's Epitome of the title that the Kynges Maiestie of Englande hath to the souereigntie of Scotland , shows how willing the English were to assume that the Scots could be persuaded to accept a union of unequal partners . |
| 9 | Another popular misconception is to assume that the types of funding and service offered by different lenders are virtually identical — all you have to do is discover who is willing to lend you money and then compare interest rates . |
| 10 | This is correct , but bearing in mind the observations made above , all one can reasonably do is to assume that everything published and available is legally permissible until the law says it is not . |
| 11 | The common talk is that the Official Custodian manages £125bn of charity money and as she winds up her role the error is to assume that this should fall into the fund managers ' laps . |
| 12 | What we are not entitled to do is to assume that our own mythological conceptions of him are scriptural . |
| 13 | A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses . |
| 14 | But this is to assume that humans have a natural capacity to recognise and reflect on their interests , and that they will only stand so much injustice . |
| 15 | One solution is to assume that , since all men are in their most basic attributes ultimately alike and use similar mental processes , then they must mean the same things when they employ the same symbols and metaphors . |
| 16 | The hedonist 's mistake is to assume that if X + Y has 100 degrees of goodness and X without Y has 10 degrees of goodness that Y possesses 90 degrees of goodness . |
| 17 | Superficially the safe solution is to assume that nil and £1 assessments indicate journeymen and apprentices , while from about £5 most must have been master craftsmen . |
| 18 | The mistake , of either party , is to assume that the coalition will continue for other issues . |
| 19 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 20 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 21 | To ask them is to assume that Mr Jones next door holds the same opinions and follows the same practices as Mr Smith across the road . |
| 22 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
| 23 | An even more extreme form of this way of thinking is to assume that there has been some type of directive force in evolution such that humans represent the ‘ pinnacle ’ of progress . |
| 24 | There is no military-industrial complex because to define the enhanced role of the military in this way is to assume that the reason for this development is the desire of the military and industry to work together . |
| 25 | The mistake that Jencks makes is to assume that the changes in the political settlement will be led from the top by George Bush , and will precede the war . |
| 26 | The safest plan is to assume that any such specified time refers to Inbound Leg time . |
| 27 | Another fatal error is to assume that a product with general appeal should be marketed broadly ( with consequent high costs of promotion ) . |
| 28 | The opposite style is to assume that the communication should be limited to exactly what there is to be communicated and that all else risks blurring the communication . |
| 29 | ‘ And your third mistake is to assume that I would risk my whole operation by sleeping with any one of them — no matter how attractive they might be . ’ |
| 30 | The easiest way to introduce technical progress is to assume that factors become more effective over time , e.g. , that one worker can do the work that two did a decade ago . |