Example sentences of "[prep] assume that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |
| 2 | Whatever the modern relationships between scientific ecology and environmentalism , we must beware of assuming that similar relationships governed the attitudes of the biologists who first began the systematic study of ecology in the 1890s . |
| 3 | We fell into the white stereotype of assuming that Bangladeshi women would find the use of various checklists and written records foreign . |
| 4 | He is also an inch or two taller than I am , Not even the most stupid policeman in the land could possibly mistake him for me in an identity parade , but I suppose I am being too optimistic in assuming that literary critics are likely to be more intelligent or perceptive than an ignorant cop . |
| 5 | It is not suggested that each offence should be ranked according to the seriousness of its after-effects on the particular victim — although there is an argument for assuming that young victims will be particularly damaged by unwanted sexual experiences , and therefore for regarding such offences as more serious . |
| 6 | Game theory has developed this theory of rational choice a stage further by assuming that interacting agents have common knowledge of each other 's rationality . |