Example sentences of "assume that [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For simplicity , we assume that marginal private costs are constant . |
| 6 | At first , however , most geneticists joined De Vries and Bateson in assuming that new genetic characters appear suddenly by saltation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Assuming that satisfactory financial arrangements can be made and Planning Permission obtained , the scheme will then be put to Members for final approval . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was further assumed that passive negative sentences were constructed by the application of two transformational rules ( passive and negative ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is commonly assumed that British black children speak a variety of English indistinguishable from the local white norm . |
| 13 | It is assumed that different pattern-controlling genes are switched on in forelimb and hindlimb , but this remains speculation . |