Example sentences of "[prep] assume [conj] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( c ) Recalculate the two profit figures from ( b ) above assuming that all data remain the same except that , on 31 December Year 43 , Bergman Ltd had purchased an additional 1,000 units of Game X at £10.00 each and there were 3,000 units of Game X in stock on that date . |
| 2 | For non-rival goods especially it is tempting to allocate their costs ( = benefits ) on a per capita basis , but Aaron and McGuire show that this is equivalent to assuming that all individuals have the same marginal utility of income . |
| 3 | Logically , children could start out just as well by assuming that each word carried a different meaning on each occasion . |
| 4 | The lexicon notion explains the word frequency phenomenon by assuming that each entry has a threshold for recognition , and that recognition occurs only when sufficient data have been collected about the word for this threshold to be exceeded . |
| 5 | Applied to the human race , sexual selection allowed Darwin to account for the loss of body hair by assuming that this character had become sexually desirable among our distant ancestors . |