Example sentences of "assume [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expectations hypothesis assumes that forward rates are equal to expected future spot rates ; in other words , where E ( ) is the expectations operator for the current period . |
| 2 | Option two — investing the trust fund in real assets instead of government paper — also assumes that honest book-keeping will embarrass politicians into spending less . |
| 3 | One approach to this problem , found in the work of Piaget , and of Goodenough and Harris , assumes that emerging features in children 's pictures denote underlying changes in their conceptual development . |
| 4 | As described earlier , our model of the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ states that the relationship between incidence and outcidence determines prevalence , and assumes that annual outcidence is 20 per cent at the highest . |
| 5 | In this view he is completely at odds with Chomsky ( 1965:31 ) , who assumes that actual language is ‘ degenerate ’ and deviates from the rules of grammar . |
| 6 | The wording of the report assumes that Financial Reporting Standard 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , has been put into effect . |
| 7 | This approach assumes that female psychologists in a particular category are all the same . |
| 8 | The mentalist assumes that mental states are irreducibly mental in virtue of the fact that in all their essential aspects they can be known only by " introspection " . |
| 9 | This argument assumes that reducing surprise is a valuable and important goal of political morality . |
| 10 | In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth . |
| 11 | Because Gilligan assumes that rational subjects are the receptacles of moral values , she underestimates the extent to which the irrational strength of gender continues to influence the values she is trying to recast as simply ‘ human ’ . |
| 12 | The MEC assumes that all students will continue for honours , if eligible , unless informed otherwise by the student . |
| 13 | This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type . |
| 14 | Second , the training model assumes that all criteria are economic and unilinear , and rejects , by implication , the validity of social , cultural and indeed human concerns . |
| 15 | But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work . |
| 16 | The thesis assumes that all enemies other than the Soviet Union will have second-rate weapons . |
| 17 | Firstly , Clark assumes that all substantives name such ‘ concepts ‘ : ‘ If I can learn a word for something , I must first have grasped that thing as something nameable , whether it be a tree , a cat , a word ’ ( 1982 : 46 ) . |
| 18 | This manual assumes that all readers are familiar with the basic concepts of the VAX/VMS operating system such as UIC , privileges etc . |
| 19 | The manual assumes that all readers are familiar with the basic concepts of LIFESPAN and the VAX/VMS operating system . |
| 20 | So , for example , s 24 assumes that all partners may take part in the management of the business , that no person can be introduced as a partner without the consent of all the existing ones , that all the partners are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the business and must contribute equally towards the losses sustained by the firm . |
| 21 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 22 | The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents . |
| 23 | Another modification of the model assumes that uniform extension occurs but takes account of the fact that stretching of the lithosphere is likely to occur over a long period of time , probably several million years . |
| 24 | More seriously , its calculation assumes that surplus cash can be invested to yield a return equal to the IRR , which may not be realistic . |
| 25 | Instead , the bank assumes that such schemes will boost overall economic growth and exports , thereby providing the necessary foreign currency receipts . |
| 26 | The model assumes that many genes and environmental influences contribute to an individual 's position on an underlying continuous scale of liability but that disease is present only in those who fall above a critical threshold value . |
| 27 | Whilst its coverage of public affairs ‘ news ’ was not comparable to the Daily Mirror — the amount of space devoted to such news declined between 1927 and 1937 by 59 square inches or 5% — that decline is one of 19% if one assumes that that content should have expanded in line with the expansion of total editorial space . |
| 28 | Well one assumes that that pattern |
| 29 | It assumes that mainstream education is receptive to special education in its present state when this is far from true . |
| 30 | It is dependent on the stability of existing states of affairs since it assumes that future situations will be predictable replicas of those in the past . |