Example sentences of "[be] assume that [art] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 A reasonable starting point may be to assume that the process will vary for individuals and for different types of text .
2 The licence may be for a fixed , perhaps renewable , period of time or there may be no mention of duration , in which case it can be assumed that the licence will last as long as the software is subject to copyright protection .
3 In the absence of any legislative indication one way or the other , it must be assumed that the offence may be committed in public and in private .
4 However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised .
5 In the absence of any stated preference it will be assumed that the candidates will be willing to be considered for either appointment .
6 Also it should not be assumed that the vendor will wish solely to extract the profit from the company .
7 In evaluating the commercial possibilities of options , it should be assumed that the parties will act in accordance with their economic interests , but account should not be taken of courses of action which the parties would take only in the event of a severe deterioration in the creditworthiness of the issuer .
8 A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’
9 Not all were as moderate as Somerset 's , with its stress on equality ; the title of one of the others , Nicholas Bodrugan 's Epitome of the title that the Kynges Maiestie of Englande hath to the souereigntie of Scotland , shows how willing the English were to assume that the Scots could be persuaded to accept a union of unequal partners .
10 Obviously they were assuming that the wind would blow in their favour .
11 In the American context Wade asks how politically realistic it is to assume that a President would willingly preside over an ‘ overtly contentious and competitive bureaucracy ’ .
12 The opposite style is to assume that the communication should be limited to exactly what there is to be communicated and that all else risks blurring the communication .
13 The mistake , of either party , is to assume that the coalition will continue for other issues .
14 It is assumed that a tribunal will not be willing to make an order for reinstatement or re-engagement .
15 A business mistake is made , and it is assumed that the mistake would have been avoided if somebody at a higher position in the organization had known about it , or had intervened .
16 And this is what distinguishes the reading of literature from the reading of philosophy which requires that one understands as fully as possible what is meant , and where it is assumed that the writing will illustrate the meaning in a direct and immediate way .
17 Thus it is assumed that the attitude-holder might possess certain beliefs , whose content implicitly can be taken as a criticism of counter-stances , but these stances may not yet have been historically realized in argument .
18 More precisely , it is assumed that the banks will adhere to the minimum legal ratio , on the assumption that the banks will wish to expand bank deposits to the maximum .
19 A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage .
20 Second , it was assumed that the gas would be evenly mixed in the air , so that no dangerous concentrations would occur .
21 Initially it was assumed that the objective would be for the villages to farm on a communal basis .
22 In addition it was assumed that the Soviets could reinforce their front line much more rapidly than their opponents .
23 In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles .
24 In the absence of a specific object , it was assumed that the IRA may have intended little more than to carry out its threat to keep ‘ the war in the Ireland ’ in the limelight during the election campaign .
25 Until recently , it was assumed that the section would operate only where the pursuer had a specific Conclusion in his Summons seeking provisional damages , but a recent opinion of Lord McCluskey is to the effect that the pursuer can make an application that his case be treated as one seeking provisional damages at any stage during the case .
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