Example sentences of "[pron] assume that [noun] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 2 | The mistake the reformists make is a common and fundamental one : they assume that language is — or should be — a faithful representation of reality , a ‘ mirror of nature ’ . |
| 3 | But they can not do this if their minds and emotions are already sealed tight against it — if they assume that religion is outdated and not worth studying . |
| 4 | He assumes that Nick is , you people are rearranging my genes , so that everyone will be like everyone else . |
| 5 | If the theory that DNA and its copying machinery arose spontaneously is so improbable that it obliges us to assume that life is very rare in the universe , and may even be unique to Earth , our first resort is to try to find a more probable theory . |