Example sentences of "was to assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to reconcile the results was to assume that monopoles move relatively slowly , at only 0.1 per cent the velocity of light or less . |
| 2 | His mistake was to assume that the Labour party would provide a more receptive political vehicle for his ideas than the Conservatives . |
| 3 | Incredible though it seems for such an intelligent man , Carter 's principal error at the beginning was to assume that once the underlying rationale of his energy programme had been explained to , and absorbed by the public , opposition would melt away . |
| 4 | Again , neither these comments nor what was described as the least desirable eventuality ‘ the establishment of a Communist-dominated , Moscow-oriented state in Indo-China ’ , seem inaccurate or unreasonable : although it may be argued that the inherent fault was to assume that this represented the limit of Ho 's power and appeal . |
| 5 | The geneticists ' error was to assume that the biographies were ‘ real ’ and were the primary cause and origin of the written literary text . |
| 6 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 7 | One way the model was altered was to assume that the mantle part of the lithosphere stretches by a greater amount than the crust during extension ( Fig. 4.17(B) ) . |