Example sentences of "we assume [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is because our ‘ taxi schema ’ contains a ‘ taxi driver ’ , and we assume that a taxi that arrives at our house has a driver .
2 Once again , pragmatism can be defended as providing a good fit with what judges actually do and say in hard cases only if we assume that a pragmatist would have noble-lie reasons for constructing and deferring to the best account of the principle underlying past cases in these situations .
3 If we assume that a LECTURER can only teach one COURSE , and many LECTURERS teach on one COURSE , then the ‘ closed loop ’ shown in Figure 4.21 represents such a set .
4 We assume that every pattern has a meaning .
5 In the money supply equation we adopt a policy rule which Barro ( 1976 ) showed would lead to policy ineffectiveness ; that is , we assume that the quantity of money is linked only to the once-lagged value of :
6 As a first approximation , we assume that the cylinder deforms globally to become a squatter version of itself .
7 If we assume that the DNA bound bleomycin covers three base pairs two of which correspond to the cleavage site then the molecules must protrude by one base pairs in either direction .
8 As nobody else is mentioned we assume that the speaker ate the breakfast herself .
9 We make the assumption ( equation 4 ) that the experimental exothermicity provides a measure of the contribution from base pair stacking and equate ΔH helix with ΔH s ( i.e. , we assume that the exothermicity of hydrogen bond formation in water is small , as supported by hydrogen bond inventories [ 32 ] , and by the relatively small favourable free energies of these bonds relative to exothermicities of base stacking ) , and that ΔG s is mainly enthalpic in origin ( i.e. , ΔG s ≃DH s ) .
10 If we assume that the customer has paid for the goods then the first entries would have been to increase the bank by £600 and include in the profit and 1088 account sales of £600 .
11 It is actually easier to do the calculation if instead of individual turns we assume that the current is continuously distributed on the surface of the cylinder , and work in terms of
12 First , we assume that the neonate 's input systems deliver up more-or-less true information about the external world , telling a six-week-old , say , that although the ‘ retinal ’ image of a square piece of cardboard changes to a trapezium when it or the baby moves sideways , the shape really remains square , and enabling it to discriminate between changes in angle and changes in orientation .
13 We assume that the writer has used the basic historical framework for her story — Wroe 's demand that his flock should provide his household with seven virgins ( female , although this was not specified ) for his ‘ comfort and succour ’ : and that not terribly long afterwards , he was put on trial by his church for alleged naughtiness with two of them .
14 ( c ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the index register is large enough to hold both fields ; for example , the DEC PDP- 10 uses the two halves of a 36-bit accumulator .
15 At present we assume that the computer does only one thing at a time .
16 ( d ) In ( a ) and ( b ) we assume that the modifier field is always incremented by one , but other arrangements are possible .
17 We assume that the matrix A is already in upper Hessenberg form .
18 If that child gets higher marks this year than last , then we assume that the examination was ‘ easier ’ , and we remove some of the questions that nearly all children found easy , before next year 's examination .
19 Janet Kear writes — in Wildfowl World , No 84 — ‘ We assume that the peregrine is ‘ programmed ’ not to hunt near its nest ( if it did it might feed on its own young ) and that this immunity extends to the goose and its goslings . ’
20 However , the effect was not dissimilar to a wash trade , if we assume that the option writer was not acting for bona fide commercial motives , but solely to support the share price .
21 We assume that the node is in the second form , so its threshold is 0 .
22 It will take us even further if we assume that the dependence of effects on causes is smooth .
23 Second , we assume that the study of strategic vision must take into consideration strategic content as well as the strategic contexts of product , market , issue , process , and organization .
24 To take a simple example : if we assume that the force of gravity permeates the whole material universe and that it is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between any two atoms anywhere , then two interesting propositions arise .
25 We assume that the store is randomly accessible ; that is , the time taken to access a store location in order to store or retrieve information is constant and ( in particular ) is independent of the particular location being accessed and of the location previously accessed .
26 If we assume that the number of professional programmers , these are people who are competent to use and develop software , is roughly proportional to the number of commercial computers in operation , this means that if the trend continues , in ten years time , there will be a need for roughly a hundred times as many computer programmers than we 've got as present .
27 We assume that the distribution of income to factors is such that is a declining function and is an increasing function .
28 If we assume that the marketing concept is upheld in a particular organization , then the key objectives of its marketing department could be as follows :
29 In this book , we assume that the similarity between the transformational process and our diagnostic test arises because the former was formulated in response to intuitions about the fact that the properties of many ( but not all ! ) adjectives could be considered valid for the E qualified in both the P positions in : ( 7 ) P E E P In any case , the test gives us two different ways in which the adjective French may be used with its noun , and the examples show that it does not always designate a property of the entity to which it appears to be attached syntactically .
30 A further mystery is this : if we assume that the motive for building the monuments was a mixture of religion and astronomy , which way round did the process operate ?
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