Example sentences of "assumption that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this there have been long-standing assumptions that management is the same as administration . |
| 2 | Other possible sources of error are to be found in the assumptions that conditions of climate and load-discharge have changed little . |
| 3 | Mr Lang now says : ‘ It may well be that some of the assumptions that Touche Ross made will be less relevant when the final decisions are taken . |
| 4 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 5 | It 's really quite misguided because it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 6 | The vast majority of evolutionists shared both the racist and the sexist assumptions that Darwin built into his theory . |
| 7 | It is here that we can gain some insight into the assumptions that Shakespeare and his audience are making about beliefs in antiquity , compared to more modern medieval beliefs — Richard III reigned a mere century before the play was first performed . |
| 8 | Rayner wants an energy-efficiency office to assume control of all mainstream R&D on conservation , including that done by the Building Research Establishment , Another area of contention surrounds the department 's assumptions that coal and oil prices will rise in the next few years — a prospect rather difficult to square with the growing coal mountain in Britain and OPEC 's slashed oil prices . |
| 9 | There is much controversy over whether temperament is linked to colour — most people are familiar with the assumptions that chestnuts are hot-headed , bays reliable and blacks evil-tempered . |
| 10 | The only rigour in Hennigian cladistics is produced by the straitjacket of assumptions that Hennig has fastened on himself and his version of the subject , which effectively separates it from having anything to do with evolution . |
| 11 | Another group just said , they were rooms one through ten , and er one of the tank farm group said , we did n't know exactly where we were but this was I think the assumptions that Group two told me were er , were about that . |
| 12 | Many non-neutral uses of gender-neutral words ( like citizen ) can not be explained in terms of speakers ' commonsense assumptions that men do certain things and women other things . |
| 13 | Then swiftly she launches into a staccato attack on political buffoonery and the Government in general before lashing at the crass assumptions that men make about women , and reaching the parts of chaps ' angst-filled sexuality that mere innuendo could never find . |
| 14 | This allows no glib assumptions that growth will solve everything , the deficit included . |
| 15 | On the twin assumptions that workers act rationally and that time is divided between work and leisure , it follows that if taxation encourages more leisure then it discourages more work and vice versa . |
| 16 | Even in the simplest case , the lump sum target , it can only be shown that the target can be used to improve welfare under the assumptions that E is neutral in its effect on production and that there are non-decreasing returns to scale . |
| 17 | But this is to allow the opponent to set the terms for debate , accepting assumptions that feminists ought perhaps to question ( for example , that women should be treated equally only to the extent that they resemble men ) and thus conceding a vital part of the argument . |
| 18 | Erich Fromm has , however , pointed out the ways in which this theory has some fit with modern American assumptions that war is basic to mankind , and that if there is another war , it will not be as a result of American or Russian policies , but a further manifestation of unchangeable biological drives of destructiveness . |
| 19 | This has tended to reinforce dominant assumptions that employment is of lesser importance to young women because they will only get married and have children later and consequently that young women were of lesser importance to the sociologist . |
| 20 | Similarly , her consideration of wearing a crucifix as jewellery was linked to assumptions that individuals might ascribe to the wearer . |
| 21 | These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) . |
| 22 | Going to M.I.T. taught me a great deal about linguistics in many areas ; but one of the things one easily learned at MIT at that time was a sense of conviction — the assumption that MIT led the world , and that other people 's opinions need not in general be treated seriously . |
| 23 | There would then be no end in sight short of the bankruptcy ( legal and financial ) of the UN and the distortion of international legal principles that have served well to avoid any return to the nonsensical assumption that peace is indivisible . |
| 24 | For if , as we have seen , the vacuity at the heart of Owen 's prospectus was the tacit assumption that owners , having seen the light , would agreeably acquiesce in the expropriation of their property in order that it would be beneficially used by the workers , that at the heart of Marx 's was that the proletariat would as the movement of the dialectic ordained , seize the means of production . |
| 25 | Anyone who had read Beckett , or Shakespeare , found the unclouded assumption that birth was an unadulterated blessing disturbing . |
| 26 | More fundamental however , is the assumption that women who wear mini-skirts , accept lifts from strange men late at night or even offer casual sex in return for a ride , are therefore somehow inviting rape . |
| 27 | Though the system is quite helpful to divorcees , it does involve the assumption that women are a piece of property being passed from one man to another ! |
| 28 | It seems to be based on the implicit assumption that women who reject dieting and respond to their bodies ' hunger can have no role to play in their own , or anybody else 's , fantasies . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |