Example sentences of "[adv] assume that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can only assume that the Roman officials exceeded their authority and treated the royal family with disrespect . |
| 2 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 3 | Irrespective of the precise role of linearity in the Hebrew notion of time , it was for long assumed that the eschatological nature of that concept greatly influenced , by way of Christianity , the development of our modern idea of time 's unidirectional non-cyclic nature . |
| 4 | Secondly , you will best get there by squeezing all you can out of every position you hold and out of the experience of every man you serve or meet : pick their brains , study their successes and their failures ; never be afraid to ask questions or put new ideas , but do not get upset or angry if they are not accepted at first , and do not assume that the other man 's judgment is wrong . |
| 5 | In post-war years , the Balloons remained in the war-time green livery long after the single-deckers , and it generally assumed that the 25 Coronations of 1953 were intended to replace them . |
| 6 | There is , however , an alternative approach based on the development of a new understanding of law , which no longer assumes that the legal system is uniform but realises that law is linked into complex processes of communication between and within different sub-systems of society , which in turn form and influence the substance of a particular segment of law . |
| 7 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |
| 8 | Although it is generally assumed that the free movement of persons within the European Community will increase the impact of ‘ international crime ’ on the internal security problems of the Member States and that more intensive and more effective law enforcement co-operation will be required , there is uncertainty about how better co-ordination can be achieved . |
| 9 | I have always assumed that the other side of the gate is private property and that somewhere deep within the woodland is a cottage . |
| 10 | Although it was always assumed that the Urban Programme would aim to initiate innovative projects , there must be some doubt whether this has always happened . |
| 11 | So that meant I had to call the police , always assuming that the local Neighbourhood Watch had n't . |
| 12 | Since the long-run real growth rate in GDP in the UK is between 2.5 and 3 per cent , and if we additionally assume that the long-run inflation rate is 5 per cent , then a realistic estimate of the long-run nominal growth rate in earnings is around 8 per cent per annum . |
| 13 | The reference centre policy also assumes that the average cost ( ie , per patient seen ) of hospital care is greater than the cost at a health centre , and that a reference centre is cheaper than a hospital . |
| 14 | In the light of these new data , we can assume this to be correct ; we may also assume that the extant Hotteterre flutes were made in Martin 's workshop . |
| 15 | ( Critics assume that the other man involved is the same man to whom Sonnets 1–126 have been addressed ; and some also assume that the three people involved in this series ( 133 , 134 , 135 , 143 , 144 ) are the same three involved in the earlier series ( 41 , 42 ) . |
| 16 | It may be reasonably confidently assumed that the different criteria for ambiguity which have been described in fact are sensitive to the same underlying semantic property , and that in the absence of ‘ special factors ’ will provide identical diagnoses . |
| 17 | However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other . |
| 18 | They correctly assumed that the viral DNA had been inserted into the DNA of a normal gene involved in limb development and so had caused a mutation . |
| 19 | Now assume that the only information available is and , and suppose that we write the vector autoregression ( VAR ) : where and are random errors with zero means , and are uncorrelated with and . |
| 20 | ‘ People often assume that the only way to do big landscapes is on medium or large format , but it is n't true . |
| 21 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |
| 22 | It is customarily assumed that the five years and eight months between the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and the final collapse of that power in May 1945 was an epoch of ever-increasing radicalism , both for the British electorate and for the Labour Party itself . |
| 23 | This attitude to non-verbal communication has been encouraged by the popularisation of right-brain left-brain studies and amongst those who sponsor the soft primitivism that I have just referred to it is widely assumed that the verbal capabilities of the left cerebral hemisphere have been over-developed by a culture which puts too much emphasis on linguistic finesse and that the expressive repertoire of the supposedly holistic right hemisphere has been dangerously neglected as a consequence . |
| 24 | Read newspapers , and do n't assume that the whole world is as interested in acting as you are . |
| 25 | This environment is far worse for lichen growth than any known in the Arctic and if we conservatively assume that the Antarctic lichens grow only half as quickly as those in the north , the former with a present diameter of 100 mm must be easily 10 000 years old and perhaps considerably older . |
| 26 | Most early ecologists simply assumed that the physical environment was stable and that existing species would establish natural relationships with one another in each area . |
| 27 | Even assuming that the French public can be persuaded to accept what will in effect be the Deutschmark as their currency , and are willing to allow their economic policy to be decided by German domestic needs , will membership of this ‘ inner core ’ in fact be beneficial for Britain ? |
| 28 | To obtain a measure of potential performance , Buzzell and Chussil selected ‘ look-alike ’ businesses from the PIMS data base , split them between ‘ winners ’ and ‘ losers ’ , and then assumed that the potential performance of each business in the study was mapped by a gradual increase from its initial ROI up to that achieved by the ‘ winners ’ by the end of the period . |
| 29 | The contango relationship is shown in Fig. 8.1 ( again assuming that the expected spot price does not change over time ) . |
| 30 | The Forty-Second Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education , published in 1943 , devoted a whole volume ( Part Two ) to " The library in general education " , once again assuming that the whole idea was totally novel . |