Example sentences of "assume that [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I shall assume that all intensional descriptions are classical . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If we assume that these institutional arrangements remain unchanged , then money income is the main determinant . |
| 13 | We have assumed that all objective functions are ‘ desirable ’ in that we prefer greater to lesser objective function values . |
| 14 | It is assumed that these increased cytokines can induce ADCC in colonic inflammation such as ulcerative colitis as well as in some malignancies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is on the whole assumed that any religious considerations are irrelevant . |
| 17 | This can be seen to be in accordance with the Yerkes-Dodson law if it is assumed that more difficult tasks are those which require greater attentional capacity ( c.f. Kahneman , 1973 ) . |