Example sentences of "assume that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Do n't assume that questions will be worded in the same way every year .
2 It may be , however , that the acceptance of dominant values is not as great as it might seem — we should not assume that actors conform because they wish to ( even if these wishes were manipulated ) .
3 Why , simply because he is a doctor , should he assume that women will come as trusting , respectful , and , above all , compliant patients who can be dealt with quickly ?
4 Why do magazines assume that women who are obsessed with their figures always want to lose weight .
5 So , please do n't assume that teachers have nothing else to do but give lectures and await your arrival in their rooms .
6 From this book one might assume that BCCI was primarily a US operation .
7 Many hearing people assume that sign language is the same the world over .
8 If , as I suspect , Nicaragua faces serious economic problems , I would assume that part of the blame lies with the previous Nicaraguan government and that Chamorro may be faced with tough decisions needed to ensure that the ‘ empty stomachs ’ of the people are filled .
9 She could only now assume that Life had served him badly in some way , at least in his own opinion .
10 We shall assume that output is determined by the minimum of supply and demand , so that with excess supply in both markets , the quantities traded in each will be determined by demand .
11 These substitutes also pay interest or have some other form of income attraction while we shall assume that money does not .
12 However , in what follows we shall assume that Lucas estimated the equivalent of equation ( 6.5 ) .
13 For the binomial model to be valid we need only assume that investors prefer more wealth to less wealth ( see Chapter 2 ) so that , given the opportunity , they will engage in arbitrage , and secondly that investors have the ability to construct the risk-free hedge .
14 In the example of ICI the ratio was 9.8 and so we may assume that investors were willing to pay 9.8p for 1p of earnings .
15 Or would they silently assume that Franca would do it , or at least arrange it ?
16 In order to make the exposition more tractable let us assume that j ( ) and are linear so that , on rearrangement , an equation of the following general form is derived :
17 And , certainly , we can not assume that processes in writing are unvarying .
18 Whilst agreeing in part but disagreeing substantially with the assumptions of Ludmer , I felt — and still feel — that the attraction of sport for black kids is a little more complex and that any full understanding can not assume that sport constitutes an area freed of racialism , or that black youths are attracted to it simply because they see it as such .
19 The vagueness of some of the " Activities " tends to cause recurring difficulty , and I can only assume that Durant and Fabb have their own ways of making them work .
20 To derive an aggregate supply curve we shall assume that suppliers are primarily influenced by the relative price of the good on their island .
21 For simplicity we shall also assume that firms expect that the position of the aggregate demand curve in period 2 will also be AD .
22 In this section we will assume that p objective functions are arranged in decreasing order of priority .
23 One can only assume that Clinton means well .
24 We can only assume that Sussex did not diverge too far from the rest of the southern English religious experience , after its rather late entry into the fold .
25 But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values .
26 Do not assume that storage heaters can operate satisfactorily without supplementation by fires or radiators of one sort or another — there is no substitute for instant heat when and where you want it .
27 Tonson did his best , without reprinting the whole from start to finish , correcting every detail , to bring his reading text into line with theatrical fact ; but we need not assume that changes on the stage and on the page were perfectly synchronized .
28 And tomorrow , one hoped , he would merely assume that Nicholas had made a pettish departure and was sulking somewhere , awaiting apology or forgiveness .
29 We shall assume that g is known and we shall treat g as the predictable component of monetary growth ; on the other hand , v t is not known and is therefore the unpredictable component .
30 Again , we should not assume that developments amongst the London Tories , at the level of corporation politics , were typical of developments amongst Tories as a whole .
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