Example sentences of "[is] assume [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To assume that the proletariat will be able to defend its dictatorship against entanglement is to assume in history itself a substantial and given principle which would drive ambiguity from it , sum it up , totalise it , and close it . |
| 2 | That is assuming of course that you would then go b much beyond the f the fourteen hundred figure which has been identified . |
| 3 | The present struggle between Egypt and Syria is assuming in his eyes apocalyptic proportions . |
| 4 | The link that is assumed between beauty and youth implies a link between old age and ugliness , and is detrimental to older people . |
| 5 | If the minimum figure — a loss of one revolution per overflow record — is assumed as an average , it will certainly not be an overestimate . |
| 6 | The bureaucrat is assumed as a general rule to know more than the sponsor about factor costs and production processes involved in the bureau 's services . |
| 7 | In Romantic-Crocean terms , the experience is assumed to be both unique and ineffable , to be undergone in a form of negative capability , without , in Keats 's words , any irritable reaching after fact and reason . |
| 8 | We therefore have : 1 ) the malady if it is a malady ; at any rate it is assumed to be a malady by the proponents of incomes policy ; 2 ) a theoretical cause of the malady , which is not disputed ; 3 ) the practical demonstration that this cause has been in operation ; and 4 ) the psychological explanation why that cause is desired , fomented and sustained by Governments . |
| 9 | Beholden to an anatomically derived , heterosexually structured , and all-embracing dualism , such theories could only conceive of homosexuality as a disavowal of that very difference which is assumed to be fundamental to social , psychic , and sexual organization . |
| 10 | The demonstrators against the war in the streets of the capital are using the weapon of Islamic solidarity to have a go at the western powers , and some are indirectly critical of Mr Suharto , who is assumed to be the West 's friend . |
| 11 | The cone of vision is assumed to be right regular . |
| 12 | This permits people to be punished for crimes that are assumed to have taken place , and of which the suspect is assumed to be guilty , without any formalities of proof , evidence or charges . |
| 13 | The interest of subjecting one 's society and one 's life to such principles of justice is assumed to be everyone 's highest interest . |
| 14 | It is assumed to be adversarial , whether the couple feel adversarial or not , whether or not they have specifically agreed that they want to be sensibly amicable . |
| 15 | The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony . |
| 16 | As Eyre ( 1987 ) reports , there is considerable variation of opinion relating to rates of deforestation ; FAO ( 1985 ) , for example , quote a figure of 3.0 per cent per year which is assumed to be due to commercial logging . |
| 17 | Each input data source is assumed to be characterized by an error model that represents reasonable estimates of the levels and nature of the data uncertainty thought to be present . |
| 18 | A recent increase in reports is assumed to be connected with the re-establishment of a British breeding population . |
| 19 | The rate of surplus-value , s/v , is assumed to be 100 per cent , or 1 , in both departments . |
| 20 | Given that the original model is assumed to be both closed and in equilibrium , there is no surplus constant capital to draw upon . |
| 21 | None of the ‘ training officer ’ group specifically mentioned this , although formal Chief Executive/Local Authority approval is assumed to be required in all cases . |
| 22 | The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas . |
| 23 | The money supply ( MS ) is also exogenous — it is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and does not respond to changes in r or Y. |
| 24 | The supply of money is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and is not influenced by changes in national income or in interest rates . |
| 25 | Sex is assumed to be the property of a ‘ physical elite ’ : our sexual possibilities are significantly affected by our appearance . |
| 26 | As Professor Chapman observes , high status nursing can be seen as a route to social mobility ; the more closely the nurse works with a doctor as a member of the team , the more prestigious the job is assumed to be . |
| 27 | Much of Western psychotherapy draws , in various forms , on the catharsis model , whereby it is held as necessary for emotional health to come to terms with the repressed anger that is assumed to be inside the individual , and techniques are developed to make the individual confront these in a dramatic form . |
| 28 | The operator is assumed to be reacting to a situation in a control room , containing a great variety of dials , charts , and computer driven displays together with the controls needed to take action in any part of the system . |
| 29 | This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly . |
| 30 | The liability of each person is assumed to be determined by the independent contribution of a major locus ( g ) ( a locus that causes a displacement of more than one phenotypic standard deviation between normal and abnormal genotypes on the liability scale ) ; a multifactorial component ( c ) , attributable in theory to a large number of genetic or environmental influences , or both , acting additively and transmitted from parents to their children ; and a random , non-transmitted environmental factor ( e ) . |