Example sentences of "assumption that [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There appears to be a general assumption that women should somehow automatically know how to prepare for a baby , but this is simply not the case . |
| 2 | The Beveridge reforms of the post-war years laid out a framework for the welfare state based on the assumption that women should be and wanted to be , first and foremost , wives and mothers . |
| 3 | A further example of the assumption that women should be willing to provide sex for interested men seems implicit in the Sun headline — LANDLORD 'S DEATH LUST FOR GIRL Lodger shunned sex . |
| 4 | Of equal importance , perhaps , was the assumption that France would , as a matter of course , recover Indochina and , although it might be described as ‘ free ’ , the status of Indochina or Vietnam or , as it happened , part of Vietnam , would , as the French saw it , be determined by its membership of the French Union . |
| 5 | He 'd made the assumption that Sanchez would n't know one way or the other . |
| 6 | In an attempt to change the balance , Egypt embarked upon a war of attrition , on the assumption that Israel could tolerate casualties less than Egypt . |
| 7 | I am making the assumption that Kirov will be able to fill in some of the blanks once we come up with a workable number … probably no more than three . |
| 8 | It does so by applying assumptions about the utility maximizing behaviour of individuals to the arena of governmental decision-making and , as a result , challenges the assumption that government will act efficiently and in the public interest . |
| 9 | It was half-heartedly applied in many districts and this was effectively sanctioned by the obvious lack of government enthusiasm ; it suffered from cumbersome and inexpert administration worsened by a shortage of full-time paid officials ; from reliance on uncertain voluntary funding and , above all , from its central assumption that work could by these means be provided for those in need . |
| 10 | In most areas , the door would be slammed in their faces because of the housing department 's assumption that owner-occupiers can meet their own housing needs . |
| 11 | Nicholson 's own idea was , in fact , to write the first existentialist cowboy story , which was something of a departure from the current genre ; he was surely right in his assumption that Corman might not see the potential , if such existed . |
| 12 | Certainly the general belief was that , having wantonly thrown away a Conservative majority , Baldwin could not remain as Party leader let alone Prime Minister ; and Randolph Churchill , the biographer of Lord Derby , comments that ‘ It is interesting to notice in Derby 's correspondence , and in that of other leading Tories of the time , how for the first two or three weeks after the Party 's defeat in the Election there was an unchallenged assumption that Baldwin could not survive the catastrophe . ’ |
| 13 | Literary language was not removed from these public concerns , a belief that texts could communicate and move readers was of course fundamental to the assumption that poetry could teach and delight . |
| 14 | My only reservation was the assumption that sleep would come . |
| 15 | In fairness to Keynes , he had argued for a much wider , multilateral system than was in fact agreed , though even this involved the assumption that Britain would not face a dollar problem after the immediate postwar financial adjustment [ Keynes , 1946 ] . |
| 16 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
| 17 | This is fundamentally a defensive approach reflecting an assumption that progress will inevitably erode biological diversity and quality , and the only way to prevent complete loss is to ring-fence a few of the best ‘ sites ’ for posterity while allowing development to take its course elsewhere . |
| 18 | Even when negotiation fails and children are removed compulsorily there is an assumption that parents will be kept fully informed and only exceptionally denied access . |
| 19 | In this context , we may recall that Althusser , rather than simply criticizing the notion of history as a totality as Foucault often tended to do , argued for the rearticulation of different histories within a decentred totality , on the assumption that history can not do without one . |
| 20 | It was his tenant John Combes who revolutionized Reddish , on the assumption that Cray would pay for most of it . |
| 21 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 22 | It is a reasonable assumption that improvements can be made even to the best of schools . |
| 23 | There is an assumption that nurses will take anything that is thrown at them and that is dangerous , ’ Mr Rowden said . |
| 24 | The main point of disagreement with the ASB , however , was with its suggestion that the OFR should be voluntary and its assumption that companies would follow by example . |
| 25 | The DES has required ( Circular 14/89 ) a bureaucratic return which embodies an assumption that teachers can plan curriculum time to the hour , even the minute , and that such a detailed record has some worthwhile purpose . |
| 26 | In general the larger libraries engage in more structured training and much more training as a whole , than small libraries , and perhaps their domination in this field has tended to obscure the problems faced by smaller authorities who never could — or increasingly , no longer can-base their training programmes on the assumption that staff can easily , or frequently be released from their normal workplace : |
| 27 | It was locked , but on the understandable assumption that Andropulos would n't be having any further use for it Talbot wrenched it open with a chisel . |
| 28 | The psychologist worked on the assumption that Dawn should prepare herself for a life of dependency on others , so he did not try to motivate her towards self-sufficiency . |
| 29 | However , this debate is over-simple since it is predicated on an assumption that censorship would work , that it is possible to stop pornography by state action . |
| 30 | They note the fact that sight-lines in shared spaces are restricted on the assumption that drivers will be slowed by uncertainty . |