Example sentences of "let us suppose that " in BNC.

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1 Let us suppose that a Government , a party , observing that the rate of increase of the national income has been as high as 3 per cent in real terms over the last few years , were to decide to make plans which involve the growth of public expenditure at the rate of 2and1/2 ; per cent , so as to be a little within the recent happy experience .
2 But let us suppose that it counts among the wise .
3 Let us suppose that the lady did not die , but was whisked into obscurity .
4 Let us suppose that she is an heiress , left to the uncertain care of a guardian .
5 And let us suppose that in 1948 , following the fighting , he left his ordinary place of residence for a place of insurrection , then he is an absentee — even if he did not join the Arab forces that were fighting against Israel . ’
6 Let us suppose that some special service has been given priority , such that it ought to have resources allocated to it , the question then is what share it should get .
7 Let us suppose that it was somehow possible to banish the feelings which give rise to such ugly behaviour in human beings .
8 Let us suppose that the survey is concerned with leisure activities and is a comparison between social classes .
9 Let us suppose that we have a BFS and an associated tree T and that we wish to insert , currently non-basic , into the basis .
10 To prove this , let us suppose that ( x 1 * , … , x n ) is optimal in LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) and that w 1 , … , w p > 0 .
11 Let us suppose that you have at least a hazy image of your Dreams — your personal and global visions of how life might be .
12 Let us suppose that every now and then , perhaps every million atoms or so , slight irregularities occur .
13 Let us suppose that there are characteristic feelings associated with trumping and revoking .
14 Less is known of the Dani 's fate , but let us suppose that Whitley 's worst fears are justified ( 1989 : 18 ) .
15 Furthermore , let us suppose that it becomes established , to the satisfaction of most experts , that there is a definite if slight possibility of the spread of BSE to human beings , similar decisions will remain to be made .
16 Let us suppose that an acquaintance has said that Smith acted wrongly in telling a fairly minor lie in order to promote his career , and suppose that a little later he himself tells a fairly minor lie in order to promote his career .
17 Second let us suppose that you are told that for every counter that you place in the jar within thirty seconds you will receive a pound coin .
18 Let us suppose that the proportion of any additional income absorbed as leakages is 0.6 .
19 But let us suppose that there are theories robust enough to hold the tension .
20 Let us suppose that a modern Mexican Indian , perhaps with vestiges of an Aztec heritage , asserts that he believes in Cortés 's divinity .
21 Let us suppose that to each positive integer n there corresponds a statement which we denote by S(n) .
22 Without attempting a characterization of such sequences , let us suppose that a link k occurred in a causal sequence connecting cc with e .
23 Let us suppose that we know that s is " up " .
24 First , let us suppose that A is non-singular .
25 Second , let us suppose that we do need a formulatable rule for the word ‘ pain ’ , which contains explicit reference to the initial sensation , as in ‘ pain = sensation like this ’ .
26 Let us suppose that the contravener sold to an investor 1000 shares at a price of £100,000 .
27 Let us suppose that the tiles have numbers 1 , 2 , 3 , … 8 , and that the goal is the configuration where the empty space is in the middle .
28 To make the numbers a bit easier , let us suppose that there are just three offspring .
29 Let us suppose that we know that particular types of occam program are directly implementable in silicon by some automated system .
30 Let us suppose that the animals contest a resource which is worth W points to the winner , and zero to the loser .
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