Example sentences of "assume [conj] [det] [noun] be " in BNC.

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1 Second , the training model assumes that all criteria are economic and unilinear , and rejects , by implication , the validity of social , cultural and indeed human concerns .
2 But inasmuch as these two chapters show that routine policing exists in the province , they are useful as a corrective to the folk model of policing in Northern Ireland , which assumes that all policing is related to the troubles ; that police officers have been brutalized as a result of their baton guns , face masks , and riot shields ; and that they know or prefer no other mode of police work .
3 This manual assumes that all readers are familiar with the basic concepts of the VAX/VMS operating system such as UIC , privileges etc .
4 The manual assumes that all readers are familiar with the basic concepts of LIFESPAN and the VAX/VMS operating system .
5 Using the actual values of S T and R M rather than their expectations assumes that these expectations are unbiased and that , on average , the actual values are equal to their expected values .
6 This , of course , assumes that these variables are causally related to sudden infant death syndrome and are independent .
7 For years , researchers assumed that these preferences were learned , and that men simply thought it was more manly to choose meat over ‘ wimpy ’ treats such as cream cakes and pastries .
8 Marx assumed that this portion is capitalist personal consumption , but this is a highly simplifying assumption that does not hold once we move only marginally away from the very highest level of abstraction at which he was working .
9 We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented .
10 Users of financial statements would wrongly assume that such paragraphs are a form of qualification .
11 But do n't assume that all policies are the same .
12 If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age .
13 If the rest of the media were anything to go by , you 'd assume that most women were at each other 's throats .
14 In this section , we shall assume that any task is described by assertions formed with predicates .
15 We shall assume that this deviation is a random variable , , with mean of zero and constant variance , .
16 We must assume that this sentence is meant ironically because it says nothing other than what can be inferred from the preceding sentence : Pemberton registers this completely obvious fact , the location of the illness , from Mrs Moreen 's somewhat overdramatized confidentiality .
17 We now understand the day before another young boy af about nine saw a amn dressed exactly the same some distance away in the Sparcells estate so we can only assume that this man is lurking around in the area .
18 And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true .
19 Drugs such as cannabis specifically affect short-term memory and therefore under-achievement in examinations and in other tests is a common indicator of drug use , although care must be taken not to assume that all under-achievers are necessarily on drugs .
20 It would , however , be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment .
21 We have to assume that this point is in some sense typical .
22 On balance it seems reasonable to assume that this coffin was supplied by one of the established London cabinet-makers with a small funeral furnishing interest .
23 Frequent legislative changes make it dangerous for advice workers to assume that any facts are unaltered and they must therefore always be encouraged to look things up afresh .
24 Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries .
25 It would be wrong , however , to assume that these accounts are necessarily unsatisfactory and simplistic .
26 This is not to assume that these interests are homogeneous and without serious contradictions ( Chambliss 1981 ) .
27 In all cases except FEDV this criterion is satisfied since all other variables are dated t - 1 or earlier , and we assume that such variables are in agents ' information sets .
28 In the final section of Chapter 6 , we construct a simple model of inflation in which we assume that all prices are cost-plus prices .
29 Unless we assume that all individuals are the same then presumably we may all have different values and different perceptions of how to satisfy these values .
30 Suppose we assume that each regulation is enforced up to the point at which the marginal cost and marginal benefit of saving life are equal for that activity .
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