Example sentences of "assume that the [noun sg] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This closing technique assumes that the buyer is willing to purchase but moves the decision to whether the colour should be red or blue , the delivery should be Tuesday or Friday , the payment in cash or credit , etc . |
| 2 | The cereal-packet image assumes that the man is the breadwinner and the woman is responsible for domestic tasks including child-care , cleaning and cooking . |
| 3 | This assumes that the bathroom is next to or above the kitchen ( as is usually the case ) ; if running hot water to another room ( a bedroom , say ) will create a very long pipe run , it might be simpler to install a separate instantaneous or small storage heater . |
| 4 | She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping . |
| 5 | It simply assumes that the past is of consuming interest , and through its richness and rareness of reference , and the elegance with which it is written , makes it so . |
| 6 | Two strictly rational players , each of whom assumes that the other is strictly rational , can do nothing but defect if they both know how many rounds the game is destined to run . |
| 7 | If there is no load torque then this motor torque is used to accelerate the motor/load inertia ( 1' ) , therefore : This is an equation of simple harmonic motion for the rotor position and so the natural frequency of rotor oscillation about the equilibrium position is : The simple analysis of oscillation frequency assumes that the system is undamped . |
| 8 | The above.discussion rather assumes that the Parliament is a permanent , enduring feature of our constitution . |
| 9 | It is an area where a woman may gain control over a man , for while he gaily assumes that the present is spontaneous , and the future an open book , she is quietly mapping out the course of future events and by the time he wakes up to this fact it is too late to do much about it . |
| 10 | This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model , right back to the big bang . |
| 11 | In particular , in spite of his attempt to avoid positing history as an a priori transcendent law , in the published first volume of the Critique he had still utilized an organicist teleological model of history which assumes that the end is already implicit in the beginning , and that history rolls forward to a determined end . |
| 12 | AS far as processor requirements are concerned , the flowchart of Fig. 8.6 assumes that the microprocessor is dedicated to the control of a single stepping motor , but the software could be adapted to the control of several motors . |
| 13 | She points to the teddy bear ( that one ) in the first picture and then points to the empty chair in the second picture ( there ) and assumes that the teacher is paying attention to what she is pointing to in their shared context of situation . |
| 14 | Such an approach assumes that the disease is attributable to a particular virus or bacteria which can be clearly demonstrated and which hence constitutes the essential cause of the disease . |
| 15 | This , however , assumes that the material is absolutely transparent and no losses occur . |
| 16 | Like most formal linguists , Lewis assumes that the channel is speech , the code , English , the message-form conversation and the event one where one individual is informing another . |
| 17 | It is not , however , assumed that the reader is familiar with ( either implementation of ) Guide . |
| 18 | The way of obtaining C outlined above does not assume that the Moon is in hydrostatic equilibrium , which is just as well because it is not . |
| 19 | The scholar may assume that the consensus is the same as his or her own idea of crime . |
| 20 | We will assume that the date is 1 April . |
| 21 | Where hedging of bets ( ‘ ambiguity ’ ) is not just feasible but desirable , we can only assume that the problem is not cancer , but hypochondria . |
| 22 | This generally has something to do with the actual failure , but it is possible that the fault is not accurately reflected in this message , so do n't assume that the problem is pin-pointed precisely every time by these messages . |
| 23 | Erm if we 've got erm er a couple say age sixty , and they 've got their personal allowances er as , as usual , er let's assume that the male 's retired and he 's getting an income of five thousand two hundred , let's just suppose . |
| 24 | Let us assume that the survey is fine . |
| 25 | For purposes of exposition we shall assume that the surplus-value is divided equally between accumulation and unproductive consumption . |
| 26 | However , let us assume that the habit is broken . |
| 27 | Now let's assume that the grass is a little thicker and the putter looks an unsuitable club . |
| 28 | You say , ‘ we will naturally assume that the party is travelling together ’ . |
| 29 | But no general account of methodology can reasonably assume that the investigator is a native speaker or has native speaker-like intuitions , and for an outsider at least identification involves finding evidence that a linguistic unit varies in a systematic way between speakers , or between different speech styles of a single speaker . |
| 30 | Let us assume that the directive is fully supported by the Government , who do not wish to amend one jot or comma of it and who are willing to sign up to its immediate implementation . |