Example sentences of "the assumption that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the moment , however , and on the assumption that peasant-based revolution takes years of quiet combustion before the fire breaks out , the number of flashpoints increased as the cities grew . |
| 2 | You have to start with the assumption that each plant that you have built , however good of its kind or however modern , is already on the road to obsolescence . |
| 3 | To estimate the number of synonyms that occur during creation of a direct file using a one-pass load , let us examine the result of storing n records at random in N addresses , on the assumption that each record has to be stored at once and each address can hold only one record . |
| 4 | A is based on the assumption that each step in the search has a cost , and the best path is one which costs least . |
| 5 | This is because implicit in the calculation of the yield to maturity as the internal rate of return is the assumption that each coupon payment as it arises is reinvested at the internal rate of return . |
| 6 | It works on the assumption that each side is willing to move from its starting point during the negotiations . |
| 7 | It started with the assumption that 100,000 bombs would fall on the capital within fourteen days of the declaration of war . |
| 8 | This idea of a white conspiracy , between police , unemployed youth , employers , and the mass media relies on the assumption that equivalent effects in disparate contexts must be produced by the same omnipresent agency or cause . |
| 9 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 10 | The belief that democracy meant government by the people , or at least by their accountable representatives , was premised on the assumption that governmental power was the power in society , that politics dominated over social and economic life , and that no factional power or interest group could successfully resist the legitimate might of the popular will . |
| 11 | This deserves special mention because , on the assumption that various conditions which appear to be satisfied by the return maps are actually satisfied , this attractor is probably the only well understood strange attractor known in a system of " natural " three-dimensional differential equations ; we have strong reasons to suppose that there can be no stable orbits in a relatively large parameter range , as opposed to the normal " chaotic attractors where one merely can not observe them but has no arguments to suggest they can not exist ( they may be of extremely high period or have very complicated basins of attraction see { 8 } ) . |
| 12 | For the first eleven years following its introduction , ICA offered one of the most explicit examples of the assumption that married women are ( or should be ) economically inactive and financially dependent upon an earning husband — until 1986 they were excluded from the benefit on the grounds that ‘ they might be at home in any event ’ ( DHSS , 1974 , para. 60 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ On the assumption that good times will come again , people that buy these things now will make a lot of money . ’ |
| 14 | This challenges the assumption that such programmes are of interest only to a specialist few : |
| 15 | The point is that a " pluralistic " inference is based on the assumption that such relations depict an objective order of things " out there " , not merely our own impression of such an order , and this is precisely where the main difficulty lies . |
| 16 | Making the assumption that such men have working-class occupations , Sullivan argues that the housing options for them are very limited after divorce , more limited than for women who , if they have been left as single parents relying upon state benefits for their income , probably will qualify for local authority housing . |
| 17 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 18 | Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically . |
| 19 | Secondly , some of the faunas have not yet been dated accurately , and we must allow a tolerance of +-l — 5 million years for each one that is known , although we can work on the assumption that two faunas that have several animals in common are of about the same antiquity . |
| 20 | Up until the mid twentieth century , the obvious ( and copious ) loss of fluid from the body via the gastrointestinal tract had led to the assumption that diarrhoeal diseases rendered the alimentary canal completely incapable of performing its proper function of absorbing ingested fluid and nutrients . |
| 21 | The constancy of the aggregate parameters rests either on the assumption that individual wealth shares are constant or on the assumption that all investors perceive the same expected returns and variance covariance matrix of returns and exhibit the same degree of absolute risk aversion . |
| 22 | A projection can be made only on the assumption that current levels or trends continue . |
| 23 | It would be possible to set about this exercise with the assumption that legal regulation of family and personal behaviour is law insofar as its pedigree passes the appropriate test . |
| 24 | Inherent in this willingness is the assumption that occasional failures will be experienced and will be accepted as a normal part of the learning process that accompanies change . |
| 25 | The hearer 's task in [ 23 – 26 ] is to reconcile the fact that an expression has been repeated with the assumption that optimal relevance has been aimed at . |
| 26 | When this is taken in conjunction with the assumption that contemporary science is the epitome of rationality at its best , we are left with a conservative position . |
| 27 | It is notable that all the papers on policy themes in the issue make the assumption that economic efficiency is the goal . |
| 28 | In post-war democratic states this is particularly associated with a high degree of equality of distribution in comparison with earlier periods , and in this way lends plausibility to the assumption that greater equality means greater welfare . |
| 29 | Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain : local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests — the police , the business community , voluntary groups , and so on , into a coherent administrative whole . |
| 30 | Starting from the assumption that capitalist equilibrium is a mobile one , it is possible to precipitate dis-equilibrium not only in an upward direction , but also in a downward direction : |