Example sentences of "assume [that] this [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will assume that this information satisfies your requirements , unless I hear to the contrary . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We assume that this rate applied in 1981 ; thus there were 365000 such lone mothers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |
| 8 | It was mistakenly assumed that this trend represented a return to more traditional literary values ; an examination of such works reveals a postmodernist contestation of the conventional boundaries between genres and an intertextual mixture of writings , of which the fragmented subjectivity of the writer was itself a discourse capable of being plundered in order to generate text . |