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 | It assumes that mainstream education is receptive to special education in its present state when this is far from true . |
| 5 | This assumes that past performance is indicative of future performance and this may not always be so . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The outsider might be tempted to assume that scientific ecology was inspired by the growth of environmentalism in the late nineteenth century . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At times social representation theorists assume that modern consciousness is unique , because it is permeated by representations from science . |
| 21 | First , we assume that visionary leadership is a dynamic , interactive phenomenon , as opposed to a unidirectional process . |
| 22 | Even if we assume that seasonal usage is constant but prices increase by 10 per cent p.a. , we produce a difference : |
| 23 | By assuming that modern consciousness is filled by objectified representations , social representation theorists may be in danger of overemphasizing the internal homogeneity of the contemporary popular outlook . |
| 24 | Assuming that schools-industry liaison is a good thing and that schools should do more of it , the project team has set out to support the development of ‘ local solutions to local problems ’ , rather than prescribe a particular kind of development . |
| 25 | It is assumed that technical progress is purely labour-augmenting . |
| 26 | The widespread nature of the process took people by surprise ; it was assumed that metropolitan growth was a permanent feature of modern society . |
| 27 | To account for them by subsidence , it must be assumed that preglacial subsidence was so slow that any breaches could be healed by new coral growth , while the Post-glacial rise of sea level was so rapid that any breaches formed could not be filled . |
| 28 | Many sociologists have assumed that social position is gained by individual achievement rather than by birth — at least for the majority of the population . |
| 29 | However , I have always assumed that public nuisance was primarily concerned with the effect of the act complained of as opposed to its inherent lawfulness or unlawfulness . |