Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] assuming that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fell into the white stereotype of assuming that Bangladeshi women would find the use of various checklists and written records foreign . |
| 2 | Paul Sweezy , in his book The Theory of Capitalist Development , criticised Bukharin 's equations as follows : ‘ Bukharin in his formal presentation of the expanded reproduction scheme , makes the error of assuming that capitalist consumption always remains the same … he seems incapable of imagining an increase in capitalist consumption . ’ |
| 3 | It is not suggested that each offence should be ranked according to the seriousness of its after-effects on the particular victim — although there is an argument for assuming that young victims will be particularly damaged by unwanted sexual experiences , and therefore for regarding such offences as more serious . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | A psychologist develops an approach to the shaping of animal behaviour and demonstrates its effectiveness on rats and pigeons and then takes the reckless step of assuming that similar solutions apply to human behaviour . |