Example sentences of "[art] assumptions made [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Where the assumptions made about old age are negative they lead to ageism , which treats older people not as individuals but as a homogeneous group which can be discriminated against .
2 The counsellor should seek to question the assumptions made about elderly withdrawal by both the older individuals and their carers .
3 It is at this point that the assumptions made about the nature of injections and leakages are relevant .
4 In this paper I want to examine recent developments in three areas of social policy : income maintenance , taxation and family law , exposing the assumptions made about the division of responsibilities within the family on which debates and changes have been based .
5 The values indicate that , given the assumptions made about firms ' costs , the dominant firms were acting slightly more competitively than Cournot while the blenders were acting less competitively than Cournot .
6 The assumptions made about savings in the previous sections were either entirely ad hoc ( the proportional savings assumption ) or based on the class savings hypothesis .
7 The analysis of the lifetime impact is however far from straightforward , and may depend critically on the assumptions made about the degree of imperfection in the capital market ( Polinsky , 1974 ) .
8 We have stressed the need to set out explicitly the assumptions made about the information available to decision-makers .
9 This was intended both to inform future research and to allow the reinterpretation of the results of Studies 2 and 3 to see whether the assumptions made about the distribution of information concerning risk were in fact correct .
10 Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible .
11 For example , the size of a region of a component may be chosen to provide a given minimal strength ; this will be dependent on the assumptions made over the choice of materials and loading conditions .
12 Although sympathetic to a progressive rights theory , Dignan attempts to avoid this problem by examining in some breadth and detail the validity of the assumptions made by Dworkin concerning modern liberal political systems , and argues that Dworkin 's assumptions may help provide the peace movement with a legal theory .
13 This flows from the assumptions made by the model of perfect competition that the individual entrepreneur maximizes his profits , that there is a price taker and that there is freedom of entry and exit from the industry in which he is producing goods .
14 Amsler also draws attention to the assumptions made by early lexical knowledge bases , in particular the notion that a word is a contiguous sequence of alphabetic characters .
15 In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon .
16 Such rebuttals are based on accepting the assumptions made by PR advocates about the likely consequences of electoral reform .
17 The assumptions made in the prospectus are mind-boggling .
18 The assumptions made in Eurodisney 's prospectus are that 16 million people will visit the Magic Kingdom and 10 million will visit a second , as yet unnamed , theme park a year at their peak .
19 The results of calculations based on estimates of environmental discharges and on modelling of risks attributable to such radiation suggest that the doses delivered to the child or fetus were far too low to explain the cluster unless either the discharges were considerably underestimated or the assumptions made in computing the risks were grossly incorrect .
20 Estimates of the number of expected cancers resulting from exposure to the radionuclides vary quite markedly , according to the assumptions made in the model employed ( Wilson , 1986 ; Anspaugh et al. , 1988 ) .
21 Let us consider the assumptions made in performing this test .
22 The Gaussian theory is only adequate for small strains ; at higher values of strain the assumptions made in deriving the entropy break down and the more complex Langevin expression ( 6.16a ) is needed .
23 The assumptions made in the Keynesian argument may however be questioned .
24 Finally , it should be emphasized that the constraint , is an artificial one ; the main purpose of introducing it is to bring out the consequences of the assumptions made in different studies .
25 Whether such a steady state is locally stable depends on the assumptions made concerning expectations .
26 Throughout the previous Lectures we have stressed the importance of the assumptions made concerning the structure of the economy .
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