Example sentences of "[pers pn] assume that [pron] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , should you assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him , or can you assume that he is a lawyer so that a hint is sufficient ? |
| 2 | what 's happened , but it does say in it that at the beginning that you assume that he is a youth because he 's got , come from university , but when he 's in the graveyard the fellow , it , it comes out that he 's thirty is n't he ? |
| 3 | For example , if the deprivation experienced by the mother of a child in care is not mentioned in a case file , can we assume that it is absent ? |
| 4 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 5 | Are we to assume that he is to be honoured for his illustrious career as US Secretary of State for Defence ? |
| 6 | In the same fashion , Kant maintained , the nature of our knowledge can not be understood if we assume that it is simply fed into us from outside ourselves , and that we are merely passive recipients of information from the world around us . |
| 7 | Of course the distinction drawn above only remains if we assume that it is possible for us to understand a proposition which we would or could never be justified in believing or could never come to know to be true . |
| 8 | But even if we assume that it is sound at an abstract philosophical level , it would be extremely dubious to assert that this theory can justify our present practices of punishment or anything like them . |
| 9 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 10 | If we assume that there is an additional broadscale SNR emission filling the 44'x32' shell and take the 45Jy of source KOM43 as the flux at 408MHz , we have . |
| 11 | For if we assume that there is much in prisons that will not bear being exposed ( and if not , why keep it secret ? ) then opening up the prison is likely to decrease the legitimacy of the system . |
| 12 | Initially , we assume that there is only one basic factor , labour , with perfect competition and constant returns to scale in production . |
| 13 | In the transmission of ability , we assume that there is ‘ regression towards the mean ’ : children of above-average parents have abilities that are above average , but less so than their parents . |
| 14 | In order to focus attention on this , we assume that there is no variance in N or , so that the model is deterministic . |
| 15 | On the other hand , if we assume that there is imperfect information , in the sense that suppliers and demanders know the current price for the good on their island but only get to know the price in other markets with a one-period time lag , the relationship between aggregate supply and the general level of prices becomes much more subtle . |
| 16 | Initially we assume that there is excess supply in both markets . |
| 17 | But meanwhile this is the supposition on which we proceed ; we assume that there is only one price in the market at one and the same time ; it being understood that separate allowance is made , when necessary , for differences in the expense of delivering goods to dealers in different parts of the market ; including allowance for the special expenses of retailing , if it is a retail market . |
| 18 | Providing we assume that there is still contraction in one direction and expansion in the other ( which we can no longer prove but which appears to be true ) the same analysis will hold . |
| 19 | There is no overt recognition that fat women do not have equal access to sexual relationships : however , if a fat woman 's friends never ask her whether she is attracted to someone , they assume that she is single because she is fat and that she is likely to remain without a lover . |
| 20 | If these descriptions assume that the only moral prohibition we must honour is the prohibition against cruelty , then they assume that it is sometimes morally permissible to cause animals pain , even substantial pain . |
| 21 | They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development . |
| 22 | It assumes that everyone is selfish , not interested in the common good . |
| 23 | It assumes that it is always possible to develop yourself , not just your outward behaviour but also your inner thought processes and feelings . |
| 24 | ‘ it assumes that it is possible by ‘ running ’ to escape from one 's culture . |
| 25 | It assumes that it is actually the unemployed who are being imprisoned , and , furthermore , is clearly untenable when faced with data which show the numbers unemployed in England and Wales many times greater than the numbers imprisoned . |
| 26 | First , he assumes that it is not correlated with permanent consumption . |
| 27 | On the contrary , he assumed that it is constant , as have all physicists before and since . |
| 28 | Notice that it does n't help us to assume that there is a powerful nonrandom " selection pressure " . |