Example sentences of "the assumption be that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The assumption is that each tale makes manifest a greater or smaller part of an ‘ abstract structure ’ and the task Todorov sets himself is the delineation of that abstract structure .
2 The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task .
3 The assumption is that different societies manage the emotions in different ways ; another aim of the research therefore is to discover what rules govern the display of the emotions and how this cultural control is achieved .
4 The assumption is that natural behaviour is honest and planned behaviour is dishonest .
5 In the large unitary authority , the assumption is that this authority 's management structure replaces the current structure in Edinburgh .
6 The assumption was that each institution would behave like a mini polis , in which all full members of the community would be actively involved in its corporate life .
7 And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent .
8 The assumption was that later information would allow some of these paths to be eliminated ; the graph would ‘ narrow ’ because hypotheses at some point were acoustically clearer and/or limited by top-down information .
9 But the assumption was that these matters should continue to be a subject of discussion and debate within the ILEA , leading to new proposals after the five-year implementation period .
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