Example sentences of "assume [that] this [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Darwinians assumed that this kind of coloration had been developed by natural selection . |
| 2 | It would be dangerous to assume that this balance of topics necessarily reflects the Authority 's PNP priorities very accurately . |
| 3 | Assuming that this kind of non-instrumental justification applies to consent and can provide a foundation for the authority of the state over those of its citizens who have consented to its authority , can the same argument be used to base authority on the attitude of respect ? |
| 4 | Since the death rate after upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage from all causes rises sharply in the elderly one might be forgiven for assuming that this section of the population has such an appalling outlook that variceal haemorrhage should be most humanely ‘ treated with limited transfusion and sedation . ’ |
| 5 | While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) . |
| 6 | I had always assumed that this sort of civilized dismay at barbarism was the monopoly of our cause . |