Example sentences of "assumption is [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task . |
| 2 | The second assumption is that additional tax relief will indeed increase the level of giving . |
| 3 | The assumption is that senior civil servants are non-partisan and serve ministers loyally irrespective of politics . |
| 4 | The assumption is that natural behaviour is honest and planned behaviour is dishonest . |
| 5 | The assumption is that different societies manage the emotions in different ways ; another aim of the research therefore is to discover what rules govern the display of the emotions and how this cultural control is achieved . |
| 6 | There are always dangers in re-programming with the benefit of hindsight as the underlying assumption is that historical circumstances will be the same in the future . |
| 7 | Social Darwinism 's implicit assumption is that superior ‘ races ’ should take measures against the contamination of the ‘ race ’ by inferior peoples ; this clearly relates directly to anxieties about ‘ miscegenation ’ . |