Example sentences of "assume [that] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 One approach to this problem , found in the work of Piaget , and of Goodenough and Harris , assumes that emerging features in children 's pictures denote underlying changes in their conceptual development .
2 This approach assumes that female psychologists in a particular category are all the same .
3 In other words , Barro assumes that rational agents over the period were aware that the rate of growth of the quantity of money was being determined by the process described in equation ( 6.7 ) , and were using their knowledge of that process and the coefficients involved in it to predict future monetary growth .
4 This is not a useful approach , because it assumes that all forms of intelligence are of the same qualitative type .
5 The major criticism of this approach is that it assumes that all information about the organisation is kept in documents .
6 This assumes that both contributions to the strain are additive so that .
7 So far as the former are concerned , the Act ( as does the Financial Services Act ) assumes that public issues of debentures will be undertaken by the same methods as issues of shares and it provides that a contract to take up debentures , like one to take up shares , may be enforced by an order for specific performance .
8 That interpretation of an extent is consistent with Anderson 's arguments , if one assumes that working-class life in Lancashire towns was more stable in the later period and somewhat less harsh , removing the absolute necessity for short-term instrumental calculation , while at the same time making predictions about the likelihood of reciprocal support in the future more reliable .
9 Rosa Luxemburg , Lenin argued , assumed that economic integration within empires rendered political separatism impossible .
10 The exchange assumed that 150,000 tonnes of cocoa must be bought for delivery to the holders of long positions .
11 Lakatos assumed that any field of enquiry that does not share the main characteristics of physics is not science and is inferior to it from the point of view of rationality .
12 The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection .
13 In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known .
14 Moreover , we should assume that future decisions about Unix will have to take into account what is good for Novell .
15 Nor can one assume that two levels of program ‘ have the same semantics ’ ( as true translations normally would ) .
16 If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ?
17 If it 's something to do with music reflecting society 's tends rather than being the voice of treason , then can we rightly assume that most bands of the last ten years have been pro-Thatcher ?
18 Hence , for example , in the case of the educational system , we should not assume that dominant ideologies about women necessarily give rise to uniform practices in schools and amongst teachers .
19 We might assume that perceptual experiences of some kind are directly accessible to an observer , but observation statements certainly are not .
20 One needs a Porter-style analysis to discover exactly what type of investment and competitive strategy is needed to achieve or maintain market share or competitive position ; one can not just assume that any type of investment in capacity in areas of high market share will lead to future success .
21 We can not assume that any part of the education system works as it is supposed to ; as Macdonald ( 1980a ) has pointed out , we can not just analyse the production of cultural messages ; we also have to analyse their reception .
22 We must not assume that any reading of any artwork is in itself permanent or natural .
23 She will need time to grieve inwardly a little over these losses and gradually come to terms with them in her own way , so you should not assume that any moods of depression or irritability she has in those early months are a reflection on the efforts you are making to help her to feel ‘ at home ’ .
24 It makes sense therefore , to assume that deep tanks with a restricted surface area are going to be at a strong disadvantage from the very start .
25 It seems reasonable to assume that greater consumption of host resources by nematodes causes reductions in host fecundity , and that , as in other parasitic nematodes , bigger worms produce more eggs .
26 Now I can see that I was wrong to assume that mere dedication to a craft ineluctably results in fine work , but it was that conviction which drove me to put Jean-Claude and his work on the map .
27 Although it will not do to assume that political developments in different nation states will ever be sufficiently ‘ synchronised ’ to avoid entirely the problems of advancing the socialist project in one country , or a restricted group of countries , this consideration does point to the vital need for maximum international coordination in the pursuit of socialist objectives .
28 It would be a mistake to assume that all participants in the revolt were involved in it for the same reasons .
29 It would , however , be incorrect to assume that syntactic aspects of language production could only be influenced by automatic accessing of particular lexical items .
30 However , it seems reasonable to assume that pragmatic factors in comprehension will also be present in production .
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