Example sentences of "[art] [adj] assumption that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popular assumption that language simply serves to communicate " thoughts " or " ideas " is too simplistic . |
| 2 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 3 | In fact there was no paradox , for it was the theoretical assumption that speech and writing were fulfilling the same functions and the inability to recognise their separate characters that made it possible to use one as the model for the other . |
| 4 | Such a view begins to turn on its head the old assumption that individualism is the sine qua non of progressive education . |
| 5 | It was a political culture which emphasised the democratic assumption that opinion was not merely of passing interest but an important guide to understanding how people would react to various policies . |
| 6 | The first of these accounts actually requires the additional assumption that associability declines during pre-exposure . |
| 7 | Anyone who had read Beckett , or Shakespeare , found the unclouded assumption that birth was an unadulterated blessing disturbing . |
| 8 | This argument of course relies on the questionable assumption that eye movements adequately describe the distribution of attention to a stimulus . |
| 9 | In 1975 , the CDC recommended deep landfills , but local officials were working under the mistaken assumption that dioxin 's half-life — its staying power in the environment — was only one year . |
| 10 | He joined the Labour party in 1924 on the mistaken assumption that socialism in power would achieve economic and social reform . |
| 11 | It talks about the confident assumption that life on earth will exist in some form however much we manage to foul things up for our own species and those close to us . |
| 12 | THE long-held assumption that beef producers are today breeding better and more productive cattle and that farm management is of the highest order , received a setback yesterday at a seminar for veterinarians organised by Edinburgh University 's veterinary faculty . |
| 13 | Let us , for the sake of discussion , entertain the alternative assumption that life has arisen only once , ever , and that was here on Earth . |
| 14 | The British Journal of Educational Psychology published an article on the negative correlation between fertility and intelligence by Gerald O'Hanlon in 1940 and an attack by Charlotte Fleming on the assumption that socio-economic level and intelligence were highly related in 1943 The Times Educational Supplement reviewed Maguiness 's book Environment and Heredity without querying the causal assumption that intelligence was mainly inherited . |
| 15 | Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is also likely , in reference to the matters discussed in Chapter 6 , that under communicative pressure learners will place more reliance on lexical means than on the intuitive assumption that context can compensate for an absence of refinement in grammatical signalling . |
| 18 | Most of human progress seems to have come about by making the contrary assumption that nature can be improved upon by artifice of one kind or another . |
| 19 | But this easiness on the eye , and Michael Hordem 's predictably effective narration , will not deter criticism From those who demur at the implicit assumption that man 's continuing affection for gardens arises out of a folk memory of being cast out of the Garden of Eden and a consequent urge to recreate this paradise . |
| 20 | The need for trade-offs should be recognized clearly , so as to avoid the implicit assumption that dignity is to be pursued at all costs . [ … ] |
| 21 | Let us make the conservative assumption that CD-X follows the same trend but that by mid-decade it achieves a penetration of about 25 per cent of CD-A , rising to 60 per cent of CD-A by the year 2000 ( obviously much depends on when CD-X appears ! ) . |
| 22 | So has the common assumption that retirement from paid employment is ‘ far less drastic ’ for women than for men . |
| 23 | The intellectual principles which were common to the broad formation — open rational inquiry , the development of morality through education , opposition to oppression and to arbitrary laws — were specifically composed into novels which integrated individual lives and social and moral circumstances by a new formal integration of ‘ character ’ and ‘ plot ’ , with the founding assumption that character and action grew together out of circumstances and could be altered only by their general alteration . |
| 24 | A quotation ( provided by Randall Baker , private communication ) from a recent Australian funded cattle ranching scheme in Fiji illustrates both the unquestioned assumption that development must imply modern commercial development and the disparaging attitude towards existing social and economic organisation : |
| 25 | This allows no glib assumptions that growth will solve everything , the deficit included . |
| 26 | The mood of that enquiry was romantically scientific , so to speak , impelled by a search for technicality based on a confident assumption that science had provided the arts with a lasting model of analytical objectivity . |
| 27 | This preference for speech tends to be based on a logocentric assumption that speech directly expresses a meaning or intention that its speaker ‘ has in mind ’ . |
| 28 | Boswell here lets fly with a breath-taking assumption that country folk had a lonely , miserable time : ‘ I had a most disagreeable [ that is to say distressing ] notion of the life of a country gentleman , ’ and he left Mr Fraser , he said , ‘ as one leaves a prisoner in a jail ’ . |
| 29 | There is a built-in assumption that memory is about association and a removal of any possibility of demonstrating that memory might be dependent on meaning . |
| 30 | There seems to be a general assumption that picture sources are particularly suitable for use at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 . |