Example sentences of "assume [conj] [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As described earlier , our model of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ states that the relationship between incidence and outcidence determines prevalence , and assumes that annual outcidence is 20 per cent at the highest . |
| 2 | In this view he is completely at odds with Chomsky ( 1965:31 ) , who assumes that actual language is ‘ degenerate ’ and deviates from the rules of grammar . |
| 3 | This argument assumes that reducing surprise is a valuable and important goal of political morality . |
| 4 | But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work . |
| 5 | It assumes that mainstream education is receptive to special education in its present state when this is far from true . |
| 6 | This assumes that past performance is indicative of future performance and this may not always be so . |
| 7 | It also follows that one can not talk specifically about ‘ marked theme ’ in FSP theory , since the question of producing a marked theme by putting an element in initial position in the clause assumes that initial position is reserved for theme . |
| 8 | In her study of Lambeth , Cockburn ( 1977 ) provides one of the best known examples of this perspective which assumes that local government is simply one arm of the capitalist state , providing the conditions for continued capital accumulation and the maintenance of social order . |
| 9 | Marx assumed that this portion is capitalist personal consumption , but this is a highly simplifying assumption that does not hold once we move only marginally away from the very highest level of abstraction at which he was working . |
| 10 | In short , we can not assume that higher education is a site of pure reason . |
| 11 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
| 12 | In this section , we shall assume that any task is described by assertions formed with predicates . |
| 13 | We know that he himself referred to the daunting shadow of Beethoven 's greatness — and we can assume that public expectation was just as daunting , given that he was regarded as Beethoven 's heir . |
| 14 | We shall assume that this deviation is a random variable , , with mean of zero and constant variance , . |
| 15 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 16 | We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area . |
| 17 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 18 | Is it not patronizing to assume that ordinary Omanis are not interested in affairs of state and to imply that all the peoples of Arabia prefer strong leaders to participatory democracy ( Country Profile NI 173 ) ? |
| 19 | Scientific interests have been chosen for these few pages of examples because of the tendency in some quarters to assume that resource-based learning is a Humanities or Social Studies prerogative . |
| 20 | It has , however , become the habit to assume that Central Office is of little importance immediately after an election and to give the chairman 's job to some minor figure in the party , replacing him later with someone of greater stature . |
| 21 | The outsider might be tempted to assume that scientific ecology was inspired by the growth of environmentalism in the late nineteenth century . |
| 22 | The result is that there is a tendency to assume that corporate management are adequately controlled by the shareholders in all companies , including the large public company . |
| 23 | The difficulty is in deciding whether or not to start with the public culture ( pro third world , bicycles , a minimum wage , higher taxes , more women comedians , legal justice for black and Irish people ) and tackling popular fears about Labour ; or whether to assume that public culture is sanctimonious and self-deceiving and Labour 's interest lies in an honest public culture . |
| 24 | We have to assume that this point is in some sense typical . |
| 25 | On balance it seems reasonable to assume that this coffin was supplied by one of the established London cabinet-makers with a small funeral furnishing interest . |
| 26 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 27 | For the output equation AD assume that real output is a function of time , its own lagged value and current or one-period lagged unanticipated monetary growth ( AD , 1983 , p.448 ) . |
| 28 | The point I am making now is that , even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish , our conscious foresight — our capacity to simulate the future in imagination — could save us from the worst selfish excesses of the blind replicators . |
| 29 | If we assume that aggregate output is a function of the mean inheritance and mean labour capacity , and that the latter has converged to its equilibrium value ( which we can then normalize at unity , ) , then output per man at time u may be written as . |
| 30 | Proponents of this definition often assume that criminal law is closely related to the consensus , although they accept that law may be tardy in reacting to changing attitudes . |