Example sentences of "assume that a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then further in the plan , it deals with the er migration issue , and it says , New household t New household total still assumes that a substantial amount of housing will need to be met outside Leeds as a result of net outward migration from the district . |
| 2 | l he theory assumes that a certain degree of order and stability are essential for the survival of social systems . |
| 3 | It assumes that a single factor can be found that correlates closely with demand . |
| 4 | One assumes that a subsiding island originally possessed merely a fringing reef . |
| 5 | Since Poulantzas insists on an objective analysis of classes , and since he assumes that a satisfactory definition ought to characterise all classes without exception , he rejects historicism on the grounds that it has failed to escape from the problematic of individualism . |
| 6 | This strategy assumes that a reciprocal rebalancing of power in the work' group will occur through the emergence of maintenance behaviours ; in fact , a very different set of relationships may emerge , and not without some intra-group conflict . |
| 7 | It assumes that an easy consensus can be achieved about the nature of the problem and its resolution , when this is rarely the case . |
| 8 | In doing so , he broke the ‘ fourth wall ’ rule , which assumes that an invisible wall separates the studio/TV audience from the home of the sitcom family . |
| 9 | I assumed that a medieval abbey had been restored , as at Holy Cross . |
| 10 | Yet , at the same time , why do we assume that a technological civilization will have the slightest desire to quest among the stars ? |
| 11 | If the McKinsey-GE matrix is to be similarly interpreted as a guide to the movement of the group 's interests through time , one must assume that a substantial amount of investment must take place in the bottom left-hand corner of the grid in order to build future ‘ stars ’ . |
| 12 | However , we should not assume that a great deal has not been achieved quite spectacularly in the past few years . |
| 13 | When it comes to dampness , all is not always what it seems , so do n't automatically assume that a damp patch is due to a defective damp-proof course ( dpc ) . |
| 14 | let us assume that a full report , with virtually nothing excluded , is laid before the House . |
| 15 | From the small number of neonatal stomachs examined it seems that the distribution of parietal cells remains constant after birth , and so it appears reasonable to assume that a definite change in distribution of parietal cells must occur during the third trimester . |
| 16 | Nevertheless it is probably fair to assume that a private customer 's needs will be for " standard " investments . |
| 17 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 18 | Mathematicians find it useful to assume that a tiny part of the circumference of a large circle can be regarded as straight . |
| 19 | In general , it is reasonable to assume that a simple transcription in traditional orthography ( that is , without using phonemic symbols or a phonetic transcription ) will take between four and six times the length of the original recording . |
| 20 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
| 21 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 22 | In ( 19 ) and ( 20 ) we have the less common case of a property extended by an entity , E P ; we continue to assume that a qualified property remains a property : Where we are considering some actual form of words with a view to describing their categorizations and relationships , and especially where the phrases are somewhat more complex , it may be appropriate to partly invert the notation , and to omit the separate representation of the word-meaning , as in ( 21 ) which so depicts the intensional structure of ( 18 ) and ( 19 ) : Qualification is clearly an ordered relation and we shall assume that it is a binary relation ; one of the two elements related is the principal element ( on co-ordination , see Section 1.9 and Chapter 8 ) . |
| 23 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 24 | The Darwinians had to assume that a useless organ was gradually reduced to a rudimentary state because natural selection would favour those individuals who did not waste their energy growing a useless structure . |
| 25 | It is fanciful to assume that a tight-fisted state will produce open-handed citizens . |
| 26 | There is a widespread tendency in social science and in more popular discussions of opinion/attitude surveys to assume that a large sample provides some automatic guarantee of reliable results , while a small one promises unreliability . |
| 27 | It is reasonable to assume that a lytic phage as φ29 should have its main promoters optimized for high productivity . |
| 28 | Neither is it valid to assume that a full stop indicates sentence termination . |
| 29 | Stripped of all the trimmings , the plot depends finally on one " trick " , causing the reader to assume that an ignorant servant could not possibly be the writer of the elaborate legal phraseology of the threatening notes , whereas in fact the fellow has copied the phrases from the legal paraphernalia all about the house . |
| 30 | It is reasonable to assume that an alarming number of dolphin deaths must be occurring around the coasts of the continent which are as yet unreported . |