Example sentences of "assume [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Read newspapers , and do n't assume that the whole world is as interested in acting as you are . |
| 2 | Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change . |
| 3 | Yet historical interpretation of literature fairly easily loses sight of literary interests ; if it goes far enough , the interpreter may assume that the idea of poetry or drama as art can be abandoned , since what counts are cultural traces , of whatever kind , and the ideological impressions they appear to bear . |
| 4 | Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine . |
| 5 | It was his own spiritual change which made possible after the poems of the early twenties a more affectionate view of London , but we should not assume that the owner of Down the Silver Stream of Thames had ever been totally blind to the beauty of the city . |
| 6 | We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough . |
| 7 | One should not assume that the decisions of working-class families would be substantially affected by new methods of birth control or by new ideas . |
| 8 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 9 | One can only assume that the farm would suffer if this came about . |
| 10 | One can therefore assume that the impressions will be embedded in the brain in nonsensical recollections quite unconnected with the structure of the environment ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Grayson replied : ‘ If we can assume that the same degree of care is taken in all countries showing — and I think it is true , certainly , of Switzerland and West Germany — beech observations , then you could certainly say that the health of beech trees reflected in crown condition must be borne out by observation . ’ |
| 12 | B is the more radical principle , and in the absence of any special reason to prefer A , and given that writers supporting neutrality say little that bears on the issue , I will assume that the doctrine of neutrality advocates neutrality as in B. |
| 13 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 14 | I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength . |
| 15 | Therefore the only rational strategy for either of us to play on the 100th round will be DEFECT , and we can each assume that the other player will work that out and be fully resolved to defect on the last round . |
| 16 | But there 's no doubt that if we do assume that the cuckoo 's gape is a powerful drug-like superstimulus , it becomes very much easier to explain what is going on . |
| 17 | As we consider each crop , we must assume that the land and climate make its cultivation viable . |
| 18 | One can only assume that the purchasers of these lichen-grey accoutrements are members of EXIT , and that anyone attempting to rescue them would receive a bloody nose for their trouble . |
| 19 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 20 | You could assume that the bucks would present themselves for locking up . |
| 21 | One can not necessarily assume that the operation of market principles per se will automatically lead to efficiency . |
| 22 | For purposes of exposition we shall assume that the surplus-value is divided equally between accumulation and unproductive consumption . |
| 23 | Let us assume that the survey is fine . |
| 24 | In what follows , we shall assume that the aggregate demand for labour is inversely related to the real wage and directly related to the rate of national income . |
| 25 | In developing our simple model , we shall assume that the demand for labour ( D L ) , which we shall define here as the number of jobs being offered by all firms in the economy , depends directly on the rate of national income ( Y ) and inversely on real labour costs ( RLC ) . |
| 26 | For the purposes of our policy discussion in Chapter 7 , we shall assume that the long-run inflation-unemployment curve also has a negative slope , but is steeper than the short-run curve . |
| 27 | I think we can safely assume that the statuette was washed and wiped clean after the event . ’ |
| 28 | The fact of union , coupled with its repeated reaffirmation , has resulted in a position where only a blind man could assume that the power of the Westminster Parliament to sever it was so well established in general acquiescence that none would deny the propriety of its exercise . |
| 29 | One can only assume that the later , powerfully muscled and squatter ankylosaurs were more finely tuned to Earth 's gravity . |
| 30 | From this you can assume that the A2 works connected up to pretty much anything and for this review that 's how I put it through its paces . |