Example sentences of "[adv] assume [conj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 2 | Left-inclined critics argue that pluralists ignore the more fundamental question of who actually benefits from public-policy outcomes and wrongly assume that participation is power . |
| 3 | It was a race which highlighted his incredible distance running ability , and the TV and newspaper press naturally assumed that Zarei was an athlete dedicated to winning and record breaking , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 4 | Injustice to these treatises , however , it must be said that at least in antiquity they rarely assumed that style was automatically improved through the use of ornament . |
| 5 | It is generally assumed that ASL is historically linked to the French Sign Language of the early 19th century , researchers seeing evidence of cognate signs in French Sign Language and ASL ( fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 6 | However , it is generally assumed that rug-weaving was brought into China , probably from Turkestan or Mongolia , some time before the reign of Emperor K'ang Hsi ( 1661–1722 ) , a noted patron of the arts who may well have encouraged its assimilation into Chinese artistic life . |
| 7 | So they grow up just assuming that whites are the goodies and blacks are the bad dies and pass the same stereotypes onto their children . |
| 8 | Mills rejects pluralist accounts because they mistakenly assume that power is only located in the political system . |
| 9 | Barbara it 's , I 'd always assumed that people were probable born with asthma , but that 's not , not the case ? |
| 10 | Lamarckism still assumed that evolution was driven by the interaction between the organism and its environment , but some opponents of Darwinism insisted that the process must be controlled by forces arising from within the organism . |
| 11 | It also assumes that providers are free to manage their assets and personnel to maximise efficiency gains . |
| 12 | If he continued to get the engaged sound he 'd probably assume that Berowne was having an evening of telephoning and let it go . ’ |
| 13 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 14 | It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable . |
| 15 | However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’ |
| 16 | In this country , it is often assumed that teachers are a law unto themselves once they are inside the classroom and that it is their professional training and sense of professional responsibility that are the chief influences on their practice . |
| 17 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 18 | Indeed , it is often assumed that women are the ‘ natural ’ carers , and that such work is n't quite suitable for a man . |
| 19 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 20 | It has been generally accepted that demolition of itself does not constitute development and , although there is some legal uncertainty on the matter , local authorities have typically assumed that demolition is outside the ambit of development control . |
| 21 | Many men simply assume that women are on the Pill and do n't even bother to ask . |
| 22 | Even assuming that A 's excessive use of a particular highway could amount to a public nuisance , that could not mean that B , C or D could not use the highway , however reasonably , for fear of committing public nuisance . |
| 23 | As originally planned , MOPP was discontinued at this stage ; even assuming that tumour was still present , a further reduction of its volume as a result of more than eight cycles was considered unlikely . |
| 24 | Although it is still popularly assumed that men are more prone to fall prey to the ravages of ‘ burnout ’ due to overwork and unhealthy lifestyle , all the evidence now points to women , especially aged between 35 and 50 , as today 's prime targets of stress . |
| 25 | The president evidently assumes that Labour is likelier to muster a majority in parliament . |
| 26 | And when you eventually decide what time to travel , you can safely assume that BR is n't responsible for your train being late — blame the leaves on the track — or for the lack of pickle in your sandwiches — write to Clement Freud . |
| 27 | The ATB records indicated that as much as 70% of all training was undertaken during the winter and it was therefore assumed that winter was the most suitable season for training . |