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

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1 We need to ask whether the effects of hypnosis upon human thought processes , on reasoning and memory , are really understood ; whether we can assume that a person under hypnosis truly remembers actual events .
2 In finding such probabilities , some account should be taken of deaths in the cohort during the year in question ; we can assume that a person dying lives , on average , six months of the year so that the population at risk of marriage at the start of the year should be reduced by half the deaths .
3 I have been told by many other breeders that they have experienced a similar thing in their own kennels and so we can assume that the pecking order is not always maintained through physical strength .
4 This is an approximate calculation so we can assume that the density and specific heat capacity of the reaction mixture are the same as that for water .
5 If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time .
6 Since the ‘ Keynesian ’ sees no reason to expect money incomes to be directly affected by the increase in the money supply , we can assume that the transactions and precautionary demands remain unchanged at first .
7 We can assume that the Norse invasions of the later ninth and tenth centuries had some influence on the more vulnerable coastal churches , but there was nothing like the disruption which drove many northern bishoprics southwards for over a century .
8 Initially the subject will attend to a new stimulus but will then gradually lose interest and start to look away ( habituation ) ; if the stimulus is then changed in some way and if this causes a re-awakening of interest ( dishabituation ) then we can assume that the baby has detected the change .
9 Unfortunately there are no German records in existence ( perhaps something may now turn up after the reunification ! ) but we can assume that the result of the raid fell short of causing significant damage to the German war machine .
10 We can assume that the processing resources available for language production are limited , and attempts to hold items for future as well as current constituents would result in an unnecessary drain on processing resources .
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