Example sentences of "[vb mod] assume that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 2 | Moreover , we should assume that future decisions about Unix will have to take into account what is good for Novell . |
| 3 | Ministers when they come to Committees should assume that other Ministers have read their papers and time should not be spent on an oral regurgitation of what already appears in writing in the paper . |
| 4 | In order to use the algorithm , we must assume that all edge weights are positive . |
| 5 | We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality . |
| 6 | None of this had any direct relevance to the discovery of drugs , and one may assume that many pharmacologists did not follow these developments . |
| 7 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 8 | We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer , but observation statements certainly are not . |
| 9 | If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats . |
| 10 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 11 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 12 | We shall assume that this deviation is a random variable , , with mean of zero and constant variance , . |
| 13 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 14 | In this section , we shall assume that any task is described by assertions formed with predicates . |
| 15 | We will assume that fixed costs are unavoidable . |
| 16 | I will assume that this information satisfies your requirements , unless I hear to the contrary . |
| 17 | That may cause practical problems in detecting the consequences , but this is a thought experiment after all , and we can assume that technical ingenuity will prove equal to the task of providing adequate amplification of the signal . |
| 18 | We know that he himself referred to the daunting shadow of Beethoven 's greatness — and we can assume that public expectation was just as daunting , given that he was regarded as Beethoven 's heir . |
| 19 | Fewer than one in ten of LEAs in England and Wales have conducted thorough language surveys , which means that we can assume that most schools still have less than adequate knowledge about the languages and dialects known to their pupils . |
| 20 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |