Example sentences of "assume [conj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself . |
| 2 | The second objection is that the ownership justification erroneously assumes that property rights are absolute . |
| 3 | An upward-sloping supply curve assumes that interest rates are determined by the market : by the interaction of supply and demand for money . |
| 4 | More to the point is that the Discourse indicates the scientism of the period : it is taken for granted by the lecturer that Turner ought to paint a tree of a recognizable species , for example , and assumed that portrait painters are after an exact likeness . |
| 5 | Olson assumed that interest groups are primarily organized to secure ‘ public goods ’ , i.e. collective benefits or indivisible products available to all relevant people . |
| 6 | But you should not assume that college teachers are all professionally-trained teachers . |
| 7 | He claimed that , in a fully articulated theory of inflation , it was incorrect to assume that price expectations were static or , worse still , to ignore the role of price expectations altogether . |
| 8 | It would certainly be naive just to assume that nerve cells are the same in molluscs as in people , but fortunately it is possible to rely on more than assumption . |
| 9 | Keynesians assume that investment expenditures are the more likely to be influenced by changes in interest rates , since raising money to purchase capital goods — perhaps through the issue of equities or through borrowing from the banks — is more attractive when interest rates are lower . |
| 10 | The conclusions of our own clinical-epidemiological studies are based on the coincidence of pseudomelanosis coli and endoscopically verified abnormalities , assuming that pseudomelanosis coli is a reliable marker of chronic anthranoid type laxative abuse . |
| 11 | Change into the DFSS directory and ( assuming that Screen Scenes is installed in a directory called C : \DFSS ) type : |
| 12 | The equilibrium assumption allows us in effect to abstract from the determinants of investment — and the role of uncertainty , expectations , ‘ animal spirits ’ , etc. — but at the cost of assuming that disequilibrium phenomena are unimportant for the purpose at hand or are transitory . |