Example sentences of "[pers pn] assumes [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It assumes that bills of quantities are unnecessary , that fluctuations in prices need not be allowed for , and that the nomination of subcontractors is not required .
2 And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself .
3 Furthermore , it assumes that monopolies have a single or unitary interest which the state can follow without question .
4 Like the CAPM it assumes that investors prefer more wealth to less , less risk to more risk , and that they are rational decision makers .
5 It assumes that preferences are absolute .
6 Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance .
7 It assumes that firms faced with increased demand for their products will immediately attempt to increase their capital stocks .
8 It should be emphasised , however , that the crude rate is probably an underestmate of the true proportion of recurrent ulcers , because it assumes that patients who were withdrawn ( and therefore not followed up endoscopically for the entire 12 months ) did not develop an ulcer relapse .
9 Such a view ignores the tremendous structural inequalities within society ; it assumes that ethnicity , gender and class do not influence educational achievements and that all schools are of the same character .
10 The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views .
11 A third objection to the confessional approach is that it assumes that religion provides the adequate answer to the dilemmas facing society .
12 First , it assumes that pragmatism provides the best explanation of how judges actually decide cases .
13 The expectations hypothesis may be a good starting point , but it assumes that individuals who take unhedged positions in futures markets ( i.e. speculators ) expect on average to earn only the risk-free rate .
14 In this sense he assumes that government policy is subject to the same degree of stickiness as prices .
15 The use of B avoids the problem of estimating the normal level of government expenditure which , ADD argue , Barro handles inconsistently since he assumes that agents form their expectations about normal government expenditure using an adaptive expectations mechanism , while assuming that agents form their expectations rationally elsewhere in the system .
16 He assumes that entities referred to will remain constant , that the temporal setting will remain constant , that the locational setting will remain constant , unless the speaker indicates some change in any of these , in which case the hearer will minimally expand the context .
17 He assumes that citizens are rational , selfish actors .
18 He assumes that Nick is , you people are rearranging my genes , so that everyone will be like everyone else .
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