Example sentences of "assume that [art] [noun] [be] " in BNC.

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1 This assumes that a test is trying to measure a single dimension of student ability — a trait — and that the difficulty of a test item is independent of both the other items in the test and the groups of students who answer it .
2 It is commonplace to hear people claiming to learn by their mistakes but that assumes that a mistake is recognized as such .
3 This assumes that a depositor is the person who will have made the deposit in question .
4 It further assumes that no clothing is purchased which is not absolutely necessary for health and assumes too that it is of the plainest and most economical description . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 If you take something like The Hit Man and Her , presumably a lot of the viewers are in fact women , or more specifically young women , because they are the ones who buy Smash Hits , they are the ones who watch Top of the Pops ; yet the presenter , Pete Waterman , implicitly assumes that the viewers are male — he greeted the audience at the beginning of one programme with ‘ Cor , boys , have we got a load of crumpet here tonight ! ’
8 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 .
9 She always does this — assumes that the money is hers when she saves something out of the housekeeping .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Note that the view assumes that the adventurers are approaching the Castle along the lower path , which leads up to the Castle .
13 The course assumes that the teachers are qualified teachers of at least one foreign language ( probably English ) in their own country , that they are native speakers of the language they are going to teach in Britain , and that they have a good practical command of English .
14 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 .
15 The above.discussion rather assumes that the Parliament is a permanent , enduring feature of our constitution .
16 It assumes that the ions are point charges .
17 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 .
18 This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model , right back to the big bang .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 This , however , assumes that the material is absolutely transparent and no losses occur .
24 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 .
25 My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor .
26 Yang ( 1985 ) assumed that a library was a microcosm of the written language ; creators of the LOB corpus relied on the comprehensiveness of established bibliographic sources ( Hofland & Johansson , 1982 ) .
27 I assumed that a crome was C R O M E , and I still do !
28 Downs assumed that the public was aware of the costs of public goods and services in terms of taxation .
29 No reply came , and he assumed that the minister was of the same cold fashion as his wife .
30 Those who assumed that the cottage was owned by him , not her , saw her as the unmarried sister , dependent on him for houseroom , companionship , a purpose in life .
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