Example sentences of "[pron] assume that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Sir Thomas and I assumed that distance and the fickleness of youth would take care of the matter , ’ continued Elizabeth Mowbray . |
| 2 | I assumed that Engineering department 's approval had been conveyed internally to Mr. , particularly since the letter makes specific reference to our site meeting ( why else would he mention it ? ) . |
| 3 | The interaction between arousal and retention interval has been interpreted as evidence for Walker 's action decrement theory ( Walker , 1958 ; Walker & Tarte , 1963 ) which assumes that memory traces require a period of consolidation which can be enhanced by arousal , but which initially inhibits access to the trace . |
| 4 | Both of these ideas contravene the model , which assumes that item difficulty is invariant under these conditions . |
| 5 | So far we have considered the development of marriage blueprints in a way which does not take account of sexual differences and which assumes that learning takes place in the context of a two-person relationship , principally between a child and one or other of his parents . |
| 6 | This commercial imperialism was reflected in the liberal social evolutionism of the philosopher Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , which assumed that laissez-faire individualism would spread around the world by simply demonstrating its efficiency as an economic system . |
| 7 | However , Rosenberg ( 1982 ) has questioned the validity of estimates of the impact of climatic change on crop yields which assume that crop varieties and production technologies do not change over time . |
| 8 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 9 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 10 | Why do we assume that rage , aggression , violence are products of frustration ? |
| 11 | This is compatible with the other version of modular organization , redundancy , but it is equally compatible with the system being interactive , if we assume that removal of any one component has effects that are not detected by the behavioural task . |
| 12 | We assume that prominence of various degrees and kinds provides the basis for a reader 's subjective recognition of a style . |
| 13 | If we assume that bleomycin cuts best in regions of alternating purine and pyrimidine by virtue of their structure , then this explains why GpT and GpC are cut better than GpA and GpG , and also explains why a 5'-pyrimidine increases the rate of cleavage at these sites . |
| 14 | Usually , we assume that dad will be the tallest , mum the next tallest and so on , but of course this may not be so and unless we know the family there may be little point in exploring the idea . |
| 15 | Probability of life arising on a planet ( in , say , a billion years ) , if we assume that life arises at a rate of about once per solar system . |
| 16 | We assume that politics takes shape here in its purest form since it is a central arena where struggles for power are staged . |
| 17 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 18 | If we define style in terms of stylistic variants , we assume that language specifies a repertoire or code or possibilities and that a writer 's style consists in preferences exercised within the limits of that code . |
| 19 | They assumed that wealth was automatically there , and that the task of politics was simply to take from the wrong people and give it to the right ones . |
| 20 | They assume that society has certain basic needs or functional prerequisites which must be met if it is to survive . |
| 21 | The mistake the reformists make is a common and fundamental one : they assume that language is — or should be — a faithful representation of reality , a ‘ mirror of nature ’ . |
| 22 | But they can not do this if their minds and emotions are already sealed tight against it — if they assume that religion is outdated and not worth studying . |
| 23 | It assumed that pursuit of that goal is conducive to the maximisation of wealth overall : profit maximisation leads to the most efficient use of scarce resources and the greatest satisfaction of human wants . |
| 24 | It was the second Unionist lever against Home Rule that helped to involve the King , for it assumed that Home Rule would become law , would be repudiated in Ulster , and that then the army would refuse to enforce it . |
| 25 | And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself . |
| 26 | Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance . |
| 27 | Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character . |
| 28 | A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society . |
| 29 | First , it assumes that pragmatism provides the best explanation of how judges actually decide cases . |
| 30 | In this sense he assumes that government policy is subject to the same degree of stickiness as prices . |