Example sentences of "[verb] assume [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 2 | William Beveridge showed more appreciation of the problems posed by the burden of women 's household tasks when he stated that the ‘ housewife 's job , with a large family is frankly impossible and will remain so unless some of what has now to be done separately in every home can be done economically outside the home ’ ( although he never failed to assume that the final responsibility for domestic work rested with women ) . |
| 3 | This approach is fundamentally different from the approach adopted in the United States , where the law tends to assume that the very existence of monopoly power is against the public interest . |
| 4 | Beyond that , we 've got to assume that the main source for instruments was the same as for everybody else who lived out of the range of urban merchandising , and that 's catalogues : Montgomery Ward , Sears & Roebuck and places like that . |
| 5 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 6 | This could then explain why the rate of expansion is still so close to the critical rate , without having to assume that the initial rate of expansion of the universe was very carefully chosen . |
| 7 | Why should we have assumed that a little thing like a gunfight in the street would attract attention ? |
| 8 | If he was acquainted with Smith 's work he would naturally have assumed that the French Academy knew it too , and that the point of the competition was to fill in the details of Smith 's proof . |
| 9 | He is then asked to assume that the true date will be before the p0·5 date and asked to nominate an earlier date that would again divide the range into two 50/50 bets . |
| 10 | He is then asked to assume that the true date will be before the p0.5 date and asked to nominate an earlier date that would again divide the range into two 50/50 bets . |
| 11 | The Darwinians had to assume that a useless organ was gradually reduced to a rudimentary state because natural selection would favour those individuals who did not waste their energy growing a useless structure . |
| 12 | There are 3 indirection operators : The examples that follow assume that a DIM statement has been used to reserves an area of memory and store the address of the first byte of the memory in a variable called " mem " . |
| 13 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 14 | If we had assumed that the expected level of prices was P 1 and had drawn the relationship between the general level of prices and aggregate output on that assumption we would have drawn the short-run aggregate supply curve as an upward-sloping line which cuts the vertical line from y n at P 1 . |
| 15 | All of them tended to assume that the territorial division of Europe as it stood at the moment of their publication was , or could be made , permanent and sacrosanct . |
| 16 | Up until this point we have assumed that a referential locus is quite generally available for property words , not only adjectives in fact but also adverbs : ( 8 ) Philippa comforted her lovingly the referential locus of the adverb is that of the verb ; and the referential locus of the verb in turn is the entity of the subject phrase ; that is why a sentence like : ( 9 ) the drink comforted her lovingly is unacceptable , despite the fact that lovingly can co-occur with comfort , while comfort is compatible with drink . |
| 17 | We have assumed that an unemployed individual must either continue being unemployed or become employed ; withdrawing from the labour force is not an option . |
| 18 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 19 | In all the above we have assumed that the numeric value f of a floating-point quantity is a fraction , in the range when normalized . |