Example sentences of "assume that [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economics and economists typically tend to ignore the issue of complexity ; theory normally assumes that all economic agents can solve all decision problems easily and correctly . |
| 2 | Policy makers and social investigators assumed that all married women would be dependent on their husbands for financial support . |
| 3 | It was known that fees in secondary schools would shortly be abolished , that grammar-school education would be developed for about 20 per cent of the population , and assumed that secondary modern schools would be provided for the rest . |
| 4 | No pupils refused to participate in the study , and as pupils were not warned about the administration of the survey we assumed that those registered pupils who did not complete the survey were either absent or had left the school . |
| 5 | ‘ Some products have too wide a variation to be explained by these factors and one must assume that many multi-national companies are charging what they believe the market will bear . ’ |
| 6 | It needs to be stressed that British planning legislation does not assume that existing non-conforming uses must disappear if planning policy is to be made effective . |
| 7 | Gone are the days when Hull among behaviourists or Lorenz among the classical ethologists could assume that all motivational mechanisms were of the similar type . |
| 8 | I shall assume that all intensional descriptions are classical . |
| 9 | We might reasonably assume that some general categories are universal ( joke , perhaps , and song ) , that others are shared between cultures which are close to each other in social history or organization ( bank statement , holy Koranic text , political street slogan , Christmas card ) . |
| 10 | It would be a mistake to assume that all multinational companies which are established in a number of European countries necessarily thereby reap enormous advantages and profits . |
| 11 | In fact , it is fairly safe to assume that all proper names started their denotative careers as descriptions of one sort or another , although in many cases the link with the original descriptive content subsequently became severed or obscured . |
| 12 | There is a strong tendency in some quarters to assume that all transnational practices ( TNPs ) in the Third World are unwelcome and malign , just as there is a strong tendency in other quarters to assume that they are all welcome and benign . |
| 13 | It is a common fallacy to assume that all blown trees die ; on the contrary , those retaining at least 25 per cent root contact with the soil may well continue to grow , albeit with a shorter life expectancy . |
| 14 | Both assume that existing social constructions of normality define the goal to which people with learning difficulties must aspire ; both define and understand the ‘ problems of mentally handicapped ’ people in such a way as to indicate clearly the impossibility of ever achieving that goal ( the best hope being to build up patterns of skills which approximate to ‘ normal ’ behaviour ) ; and both create a professional/client relationship which enshrines the professional in a world of exclusive and privileged knowledge , and consequently entombs the individual with learning difficulties in a fundamentally dependent role . |
| 15 | Assume that two identical patients are admitted to two ICUs . |
| 16 | I have already indicated in Chapter 2 that , even if we assume that true observational statements are available to us in some way , it is never possible to arrive at universal laws and theories by logical deductions on that basis alone . |
| 17 | For simplicity , we assume that marginal private costs are constant . |
| 18 | If we assume that these institutional arrangements remain unchanged , then money income is the main determinant . |
| 19 | At first , however , most geneticists joined De Vries and Bateson in assuming that new genetic characters appear suddenly by saltation . |
| 20 | Further examples were that the ’ Race and Poll Tax ’ workshop did not take place , and the patronising remarks we heard in the ’ Socialist conference ’ workshop , white women full of guilt and superiority , assuming that ordinary Black women would wish to join in their loose framework culminating at Chesterfield . |
| 21 | Assuming that satisfactory financial arrangements can be made and Planning Permission obtained , the scheme will then be put to Members for final approval . |
| 22 | We have assumed that all objective functions are ‘ desirable ’ in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values . |
| 23 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
| 24 | It was further assumed that passive negative sentences were constructed by the application of two transformational rules ( passive and negative ) . |
| 25 | But , as one eminent Scottish judge pointed out in MacCormick v Lord Advocate ( above ) , why should it be assumed that successive reconstituted Parliaments at Westminster have inherited the attribute of ‘ sovereignty ’ peculiar ( and , as is above suggested , perhaps with a limited meaning even then ) to the English Parliament . |
| 26 | It is assumed that these increased cytokines can induce ADCC in colonic inflammation such as ulcerative colitis as well as in some malignancies . |
| 27 | However , it should not be assumed that these low-cost alternatives can not deliver the same , sometimes better , results when used in conjunction with other software . |
| 28 | It is on the whole assumed that any religious considerations are irrelevant . |
| 29 | It is commonly assumed that British black children speak a variety of English indistinguishable from the local white norm . |
| 30 | It is assumed that different pattern-controlling genes are switched on in forelimb and hindlimb , but this remains speculation . |