Example sentences of "[pers pn] assume that it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happiness ( or unhappiness ) was not mentioned , and I assumed that it was of subsidiary importance . |
| 2 | Can I assume that it was cleared through the Cabinet Office ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The inconsistency of demanding frankness and openness from the African while practising a form of government depending largely on influence wielded behind closed doors seems not to have troubled the British ; they assumed that it was precisely their own qualities of straightforwardness and transparent honesty which would effect the required transformation in the African character . |
| 10 | They assumed that it was legal before the third month , and only illegal when procured . |
| 11 | In particular they assumed that it was possible , at any given moment , to make reasonably precise comparisons of the real strength of the States concerned , to estimate accurately the advantages of Britain 's wealth as against Russia 's population or Prussia 's efficient bureaucracy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It assumes that it is always possible to develop yourself , not just your outward behaviour but also your inner thought processes and feelings . |
| 14 | ‘ it assumes that it is possible by ‘ running ’ to escape from one 's culture . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | First , he assumes that it is not correlated with permanent consumption . |
| 17 | On the contrary , he assumed that it is constant , as have all physicists before and since . |
| 18 | He assumed that it was exhausted , wasted by the work at the end of the long winter , and he blamed himself . |