Example sentences of "we assume that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should we assume that the meaningfulness of such a hypothesis necessarily depends on the possibility ( in principle , at least ) of turning the relevant propositional schema into a meaningful singular proposition , viz. by replacing the " bound " variable ( the variable governed by the " existential quantifier " ) with an appropriate name , or a naming phrase ? |
| 2 | Shall we assume that the Home Secretary , too , will grant a reprieve to William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw Haw ’ ) because by January 3 , 1946 , the date of his execution , Germany had ceased to be an enemy country ? |
| 3 | However , a new problem arises — that of selection due to differential recruitment of those receiving or not receiving X. For example if , after a TV programme on violence in society , we sample to compare the opinions of those who watched it with those who did not on the question of bringing back corporal punishment , can we assume that the subpopulations of watchers and non-watchers are otherwise similar ? |
| 4 | Nor should we assume that the parties were static . |
| 5 | In Belfast we assumed that the number of socially-patterned variables that we might uncover could well run into the hundreds . |
| 6 | ‘ Are we to assume that the Chancellor walked out carrying three bottles of wine ? ’ |
| 7 | Are we to assume that the defendant might by some slip in pleading , have failed in his defence to that action , if it had proceeded ? |
| 8 | In the money supply equation we adopt a policy rule which Barro ( 1976 ) showed would lead to policy ineffectiveness ; that is , we assume that the quantity of money is linked only to the once-lagged value of : |
| 9 | As a first approximation , we assume that the cylinder deforms globally to become a squatter version of itself . |
| 10 | If we assume that the DNA bound bleomycin covers three base pairs two of which correspond to the cleavage site then the molecules must protrude by one base pairs in either direction . |
| 11 | As nobody else is mentioned we assume that the speaker ate the breakfast herself . |
| 12 | Or else we assume that the aeons during which the improbable state lasts , and the distance from here to Sirius , are minute if compared with the age and size of the whole universe . |
| 13 | We make the assumption ( equation 4 ) that the experimental exothermicity provides a measure of the contribution from base pair stacking and equate ΔH helix with ΔH s ( i.e. , we assume that the exothermicity of hydrogen bond formation in water is small , as supported by hydrogen bond inventories [ 32 ] , and by the relatively small favourable free energies of these bonds relative to exothermicities of base stacking ) , and that ΔG s is mainly enthalpic in origin ( i.e. , ΔG s ≃DH s ) . |
| 14 | If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 . |
| 15 | It is actually easier to do the calculation if instead of individual turns we assume that the current is continuously distributed on the surface of the cylinder , and work in terms of |
| 16 | Thus we assume that the forces of demand and supply have free play ; that there is no close combination among dealers on either side , but each acts for himself , and there is much free competition ; that is , buyers generally compete freely with buyers , and sellers compete freely with sellers . |
| 17 | First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation . |
| 18 | We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them . |
| 19 | ( c ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the index register is large enough to hold both fields ; for example , the DEC PDP- 10 uses the two halves of a 36-bit accumulator . |
| 20 | When we find that the experience of unemployment makes people more likely to contemplate breaking an unjust law , we assume that the reasons for this are general ; we suppose that the increased likelihood would operate for anyone who happened to undergo the experience of unemployment . |
| 21 | At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time . |
| 22 | ( d ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the modifier field is always incremented by one , but other arrangements are possible . |
| 23 | We assume that the matrix A is already in upper Hessenberg form . |
| 24 | For simplicity , we assume that the effects of different loci multiply , and we neglect linkage disequilibrium and genetic variation , to derive approximations to the survival probabilities , give the optimal life history in the absence of mutation . |
| 25 | If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination . |
| 26 | Rather , we assume that the characteristics of the political system are those typically found in Western democracies , and examine within the context of those assumptions ( e.g. , majority voting ) the behaviour of the electorate , the government , and the bureaucracy . |
| 27 | Moving on let's have a talk about the primary school budgets , we 're proposing a million pounds here for primary school delegated budgets er we assume that the schools have used that largely by non-contact time for the teachers . |
| 28 | Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’ |
| 29 | This ability is accounted for most simply if we assume that the recruits have mental maps of the surroundings on which they somehow ‘ place ’ the spots indicated by the dances . |
| 30 | However , the effect was not dissimilar to a wash trade , if we assume that the option writer was not acting for bona fide commercial motives , but solely to support the share price . |