Example sentences of "[pron] [is] assume [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so obviously she 's assuming that she 's talking to Elvis , but er , she ca n't prove it |
| 2 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 3 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
| 4 | The words of the Fourth Commandment are uncompromising and it 's assumed that so also are those who believe in keeping the Sabbath . |
| 5 | In other academic areas it is assumed that the teacher knows more than the student , and is there to convey this knowledge , whether as a corpus or a skill . |
| 6 | It is assumed that he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy . |
| 7 | It is assumed that : Ax = Ay Fx Fy |
| 8 | This allows a comparison to be made between markets in countries that are at a different stage in their development , but it is assumed that their development will follow a similar pattern . |
| 9 | It is assumed that If Ax\ , Fx\ and Fyz are known , then market demand for product A in country Y in time period 2 can be estimated . |
| 10 | Although it is assumed that birds have not a highly developed sense of taste , both tits and blackbirds , despite any flamboyant coloration to attract them , recognise Sturmers as worthy of attention , and those out of reach , when harder weather prevails , will , as in former winters , attract both fieldfares and winter-visiting blackcaps . |
| 11 | It is assumed that Mr Cojuangco would then become chairman of San Miguel , as he was in the Marcos days . |
| 12 | It is assumed that holders of other sequestered shares will now try to regain their voting rights . |
| 13 | ’ . It is assumed that pain and suffering are forces driving men to true religion . |
| 14 | Because in the past , upper-class unionists have been less than staunchly committed to the defence of traditional loyalism , it is assumed that others who acquire elements of upper-class status , such as a university education , will themselves be more moderate than their uneducated elders . |
| 15 | Within the cone of vision it is assumed that all lines and planes parallel to the picture plane are true to scale . |
| 16 | If you die leaving £347,000 to your wife it is assumed that she still has it when she dies , so £200,000 is taxable then . |
| 17 | This mental health orientation leads to a more pessimistic outlook on patient needs — they not only require treatment , but it is assumed that it must be compulsory — and there is a tendency towards a ‘ presumption of risk ’ — that the presence of mental illness makes the situation inherently risky . |
| 18 | The discussion is more neutral only in so far as it is assumed that the curriculum ( such a global phenomenon ) is no-one 's responsibility in particular , and clearly this is so in an individual sense — but it is however the responsibility of the profession to take a leading role in this area and at the moment it is not fulfilling this role . |
| 19 | Here it is assumed that the child 's right to education is a correlative of the parent 's duty to send the child to school . |
| 20 | It is assumed that so-called reminder treatments act in some way to increase the likelihood that associations ( especially weak ones that will be most in need of such help ) will be effective in generating overt conditioned responding , then the pattern of results observed can be accommodated . |
| 21 | It is assumed that different pattern-controlling genes are switched on in forelimb and hindlimb , but this remains speculation . |
| 22 | Because many old people are poor , or mentally or physically frail , it is assumed that they are also rigid , unable to learn , unable to make new relationships , and so on . |
| 23 | It is assumed that overall coverage of new publications in the authority is achieved by these departments . |
| 24 | It is assumed that all trainees will return to their bureaux and where necessary areas of weakness that emerged during training will be worked at with their in-bureau tutor . |
| 25 | As with Lombroso 's work and the Gluecks ' study discussed above , by starting with institutionalised criminals , it is assumed that all prisoners are criminals and that most criminals do , in fact , go to prison . |
| 26 | The claim that status frustration is the motivating factor also suffers from a middle-class bias , in that it is assumed that delinquents cherish middle-class status goals , such as educational success . |
| 27 | It is assumed that you are using version 5.0 of the program and that the original settings on the program disk are in force . |
| 28 | For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors . |
| 29 | In transactional analysis ( TA ) it is assumed that our habitual ways of feeling and behaving largely stem from the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people . |
| 30 | In TA it is assumed that we all have stroke quotas , established in early learning . |