Example sentences of "assumes [that] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This all assumes that Golding 's idea of original sin is true and is therefore it is from his perspective , but I do agree with the point he makes and therefore feel that in real life the girls would degenerate into some kind of ‘ sin ’ . |
| 2 | He assumes that entities referred to will remain constant , that the temporal setting will remain constant , that the locational setting will remain constant , unless the speaker indicates some change in any of these , in which case the hearer will minimally expand the context . |
| 3 | This model assumes that communication involves a transmitter who forms his message from the information source into signals to be reconstructed by the receiver to allow the message to reach its destination . |
| 4 | And because it assumes that gender differences are biologically or culturally fixed , it is especially likely to neglect psychological or social differences between women , to take female subjectivity as defining feminism , and to treat psychology as a form of social action in itself . |
| 5 | But once one assumes that accumulation is taking place — and Marx asserts that this is the chief aim of capitalism — then the proportion of surplus-value which is unproductively consumed has quite a different significance . |
| 6 | It assumes that bills of quantities are unnecessary , that fluctuations in prices need not be allowed for , and that the nomination of subcontractors is not required . |
| 7 | Like the CAPM it assumes that investors prefer more wealth to less , less risk to more risk , and that they are rational decision makers . |
| 8 | It is important to remember this when thinking about climatic geomorphology , because if one assumes that landforms are going to vary significantly with these zones , one assumes that the climatic parameters controlling landforms are the same as those controlling natural vegetation . |
| 9 | The report assumes that decommissioning costs would be spread over 100 years , although the industry has been pushing for a " deferred safe storage strategy " , spreading the costs over 135-150 years . |
| 10 | Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance . |
| 11 | But that hopeful estimate assumes that firms owned by the Treuhandanstalt , the privatisation agency for east German industry , will find the courage to ask for lower pay hikes rather than pass the bills on to German taxpayers . |
| 12 | McCallum assumes that firms set their prices for period t in the following way . |
| 13 | This assumes that firms always set price equal to average costs because they are constrained by the level of competition to making only normal profits . |
| 14 | It assumes that firms faced with increased demand for their products will immediately attempt to increase their capital stocks . |
| 15 | The interaction between arousal and retention interval has been interpreted as evidence for Walker 's action decrement theory ( Walker , 1958 ; Walker & Tarte , 1963 ) which assumes that memory traces require a period of consolidation which can be enhanced by arousal , but which initially inhibits access to the trace . |
| 16 | The model assumes that managers can specify their information requirements and that these can be predicted by the information system . |
| 17 | This is not the place to explore the many alternative theories of the firm , but it might be worth noting that , for example , the theory of sales revenue maximisation ( Baumol 1959 ) assumes that managers pursue the objective of maximising revenue rather than profits . |
| 18 | This assumes that patterns and trends which can be identified in past ( historical ) sets of data may be projected forward , especially under stable economic , market and organisational conditions , for the purpose of forecasting perhaps up to one year ahead . |
| 19 | In my view the authenticity argument is invalid because it does not distinguish between the two questions : it confuses ends and means and assumes that teaching language for communication is the same as teaching language as communication ( cf. |
| 20 | For example , it is often said that testing assumes that intelligence can be quantified by a single number , as in a much-praised recent book , The Mismeasure of Man , by a palaeontologist , Stephen Jay Gould . |
| 21 | The Tiebout model assumes that residents mainly consume the public services provided by their own local authority . |
| 22 | Relativism is a stance which assumes that opinions which can not be tested scientifically are just subjective and relative to the particular context giving rise to them , to cultural upbringing and different individual and group experience . |
| 23 | The above analysis assumes that capital movements only arise from differences in productivity . |
| 24 | This argument assumes that space and time are infinitely divisible , but not all of Zeno 's arguments involve this assumption . |
| 25 | This impairment can be explained in a straightforward manner if one assumes that damage has occurred to the part of the reading system that involves addressed phonology . |
| 26 | Accordingly , the model assumes that government spending is determined mainly by factors outside the circular flow . |
| 27 | In this sense he assumes that government policy is subject to the same degree of stickiness as prices . |
| 28 | This interpretation assumes that institutions ( such as the licensed disrespect and ragging between nephew and uncle ) are not aimless social eccentricities , but function logically and coherently . |
| 29 | Alternatively these techniques could be applied to every one of the candidate strings for each word position identified as a potential error ( again it should be noted that this assumes that errors can be identified , which may be doubtful for our system ) . |
| 30 | The data in Table I ( drawn from work published by B R McLeod and Abraham Liboff ) assumes that H is exclusively the geomagnetic field strength . |