Example sentences of "assume [conj] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , Clark assumes that all substantives name such ‘ concepts ‘ : ‘ If I can learn a word for something , I must first have grasped that thing as something nameable , whether it be a tree , a cat , a word ’ ( 1982 : 46 ) . |
| 2 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 3 | If one assumes that any paddler runs a risk of shoulder damage when the shoulder angle is forced beyond 180 degrees , then a canoeist can choose to paddle at high risk with an arm position close to the limit or at low risk . |
| 4 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 5 | Now if you violate any of the assumptions ordinary squares , right , then the procedure will produce or may produce misleading results , we can only be confident in statistical terms about ordinary leased squares parameters , right , because we know and show in theory that they hold providing a number of assumptions are met , like you have serially uncorrelated errors , right , we do n't have m multi co-linearity amongst the regresses , right , we have constant variance throughout the sample now if any of those er assumptions are breached , violated then our , any statistical results that are generated from erm the technique that assumes that those assumptions have n't been breached erm are invalidated and we can get very misleading er parameter estimates , right , in the presence of auto correlation or multi-linearity erm . |
| 6 | The problems were , was that the schools , since they were doing this , they assumed that all schools did this , therefore they did n't need to talk about it , they did n't need to tell them about it . |
| 7 | None of this had any direct relevance to the discovery of drugs , and one may assume that many pharmacologists did not follow these developments . |
| 8 | On the other hand , we can not assume that all people accused of Jacobite activity were guilty as charged ; some fell victim to the false allegations of professional perjurers . |
| 9 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 10 | James Wood , Director of the Art Institute of Chicago , conveyed a suspicion held by most high-level museum administrators : ‘ I would assume that these exhibitions have been tailored more as events than as the kind of exhibitions that are being sought after by the major museums ’ . |
| 11 | I will assume that this information satisfies your requirements , unless I hear to the contrary . |
| 12 | When one in three marriages end in divorce , it is safe to assume that many couples have n't got the balance right . |
| 13 | It is easy , however for managers to assume that such changes have similarly profound effect on those who provide care and treatment . |
| 14 | It is reasonable to assume that such changes have significant social and economic effects , yet they have been conspicuously neglected by social scientists . |
| 15 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 16 | It would be reasonable to assume that such researchers had adopted new research interests , had changed occupations , or had moved to different localities . |
| 17 | The disaster was all the more stunning because people had come to assume that such things did n't happen . |
| 18 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 19 | The strong achievement orientation of Japanese society and the degree to which it has become a genuine educational meritocracy have led many to assume that this aim has been achieved . |
| 20 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 21 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 22 | Of course there are naturally occurring fish which are monochrome orange , white or yellow — in the African Rift Lakes , for example — and we have to assume that these fish gain some advantage , and certainly no disadvantage , from their coloration . |
| 23 | They assume that people know where their own best interests lie ; they assume that people will automatically participate in politics if their interests are threatened ; and they assume that all interests possess the " potential " to organise and be influential in politics . |
| 24 | The total bequest is divided among the heirs to give the inheritance of the next generation ( we assume that all wealth passes linearly one generation at a time ) . |
| 25 | To do this , we assume that all firms determine their prices by adding a profit margin to the cost of a unit of output . |
| 26 | We assume that all firms have identical cost conditions and , given the symmetry in the utility function , all firms in the industry have the same level of output . |
| 27 | The craft 's endurance will be 2.2 hours which can be increased to 5.25 hours by decreasing the number of passengers by 10 ( these figures assume that each passenger carries 90 kg of baggage ) . |
| 28 | I assume that most fishkeepers aim to have their fish live as long and grow as large as possible , so the first consideration is a large tank . |
| 29 | We assume that this rate applied in 1981 ; thus there were 365000 such lone mothers . |
| 30 | If we assume that these vehicles have an operational life of five years , and that 10 per cent is an agreed discount rate , then this scheme should produce benefits in net present value terms of approximately £2.8 million . |