Example sentences of "assume that [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Further it assumes that the differences between the forms and functioning of the family in ‘ industrial ’ and ‘ pre-industrial ’ societies are greater than any differences that might exist within these two categories such as , in the former , between capitalist and socialist societies .
2 If you take something like The Hit Man and Her , presumably a lot of the viewers are in fact women , or more specifically young women , because they are the ones who buy Smash Hits , they are the ones who watch Top of the Pops ; yet the presenter , Pete Waterman , implicitly assumes that the viewers are male — he greeted the audience at the beginning of one programme with ‘ Cor , boys , have we got a load of crumpet here tonight ! ’
3 But ultimately , at that stage , the expectation is that they will say , well the bulk of the D S S monies have now been transferred to local authorities , and can safely be distributed through the normal standard spending assessment distribution , and the revenue support grant for local authorities , so at that stage you will cease to have any specific grant and one assumes that the conditions about where you spend it and how you spend it will also have been removed .
4 However , this argument assumes that the rules of judicial review which can be waived by appealing to the discretion are themselves clear and certain ; but , as we will see , this is very far from the case .
5 It is also worth overcoming an approach to computer-aided historical research which assumes that the complexities inherent in disambiguating and interpreting fuzzy information and of representing idiosyncratic data types are at all unique to history .
6 It assumes that the countries ' markets are analogous .
7 It assumes that the interests of workers are national , rather than class interests , which may not always be best for the workers , as a class .
8 It assumes that the experts and knowledge engineers are consultants to the software company and not its employees ( this will be a common arrangement in practice ) .
9 Note that the view assumes that the adventurers are approaching the Castle along the lower path , which leads up to the Castle .
10 The course assumes that the teachers are qualified teachers of at least one foreign language ( probably English ) in their own country , that they are native speakers of the language they are going to teach in Britain , and that they have a good practical command of English .
11 The advantages of the private law model are as follows : ( 1 ) It assumes that the rights investors would have had in the absence of statutory intervention should be preserved unless clearly taken away .
12 Common fantasy that a spell on the dole is the change that 's as good as a rest assumes that the pastimes of the poor are the weekend pleasures of the employed — drinking , fishing , playing with cars , playing pool , playing bingo , going to the cinema .
13 This example assumes that the prices of kryptonite and phlogiston futures respond by equal proportionate amounts to a change in the general level of market prices , and this may not be the case .
14 It assumes that the ions are point charges .
15 This comfort assumes that the identities , which can be so effortlessly , even unconsciously , adopted in listening to a speech , are not in serious conflict : the categories of ‘ Conservative ’ , ‘ British ’ , ‘ right-thinking ’ all overlap and , in fact , without reflection might be assumed to be virtually synonymous .
16 The size of the weighting factor can be chosen to reflect the importance we attach to an objective , but the use of this linear form implicitly assumes that the weights should be independent of the solution and does not permit one to model , for example , the proposal that profits should be given higher priority relative to exports when profits are low than when they are high .
17 It assumes that the wavefunctions unc and unc were obtained by solving the Schrödinger equation with slits I and 2 respectively open .
18 It assumes that the scores have been derived from random samples .
19 Equation ( 2 ) assumes that the fragments of the disrupted object may continue to be treated with a single , collective bow shock .
20 The majority of the models assumed that the positions of the continents were fixed and that the ocean basins were ancient features .
21 In any event , Ermold assumed that the parents would relish the description of their son , and be amused by the contrast between the adults ' formality and the child 's spontaneity ( though such licence may have been permitted only to under-sevens ) .
22 So rosy was the CEGB 's picture of these costs during the 1960s that it assumed that the charges for reprocessing would be covered by the value of the recovered uranium and plutonium .
23 The Ryan commission assumed that the tissues of dead fetuses would be treated precisely like those of any dead individual , under the terms of the Anatomical Gift Act .
24 Classical elasticity as developed in the nineteenth century assumed that the deformations caused on application of load were small ; in fact the linear relation between stress and strain , as defined above , can only be true for infinitesimal strains .
25 Lacking any sense of the Dionysiac depths of music , they assumed that the words took precedence and , as with the New Attic Dithyramb their music aspired to nothing higher than tone-painting , in imitation of the world of phenomena .
26 Most of these schemes of settlement by proprietors which included half the mainland colonies in the seventeenth century , assumed that the proprietors would become great landlords of the old English type on a very grand scale .
27 The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife .
28 When normality for either group was not reasonable the corresponding test used was the Mann-Whitney , although this assumed that the shapes of the two underlying distributions ( for regulated and random ) were identical but possibly shifted in terms of the median .
29 At each of the past three , it was universally , and correctly , assumed that the Socialists would win .
30 If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time .
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