Example sentences of "assumption be that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assumption is that increasing arousal should reduce the number of peripheral cues used and thus impair performance on the subsidiary task while improving performance on a main task . |
| 2 | The second assumption is that additional tax relief will indeed increase the level of giving . |
| 3 | The first assumption is that each cell can accommodate only a single reach or segment of a stream , and the stream can therefore move through each cell only once . |
| 4 | The assumption is that each tale makes manifest a greater or smaller part of an ‘ abstract structure ’ and the task Todorov sets himself is the delineation of that abstract structure . |
| 5 | 1.13 Our fundamental assumption is that all pupils are entitled to an education that will provide the opportunity for them to develop to the best of their abilities a competence in and appreciation of English . |
| 6 | The assumption is that natural behaviour is honest and planned behaviour is dishonest . |
| 7 | The assumption is that different societies manage the emotions in different ways ; another aim of the research therefore is to discover what rules govern the display of the emotions and how this cultural control is achieved . |
| 8 | There are always dangers in re-programming with the benefit of hindsight as the underlying assumption is that historical circumstances will be the same in the future . |
| 9 | In the large unitary authority , the assumption is that this authority 's management structure replaces the current structure in Edinburgh . |
| 10 | The underlying assumption is that this age gap between pupils in the same class is not important , but it may be that younger children are at a disadvantage educationally . |
| 11 | The assumption was that each institution would behave like a mini polis , in which all full members of the community would be actively involved in its corporate life . |
| 12 | The Conference 's working assumption was that all incursions from Lagos were to be resisted ; the reason invariably given was that only the Residents had enough knowledge and experience of the mysteries of Indirect Rule to be entrusted with its execution . |
| 13 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 14 | The assumption was that later information would allow some of these paths to be eliminated ; the graph would ‘ narrow ’ because hypotheses at some point were acoustically clearer and/or limited by top-down information . |
| 15 | But the assumption was that these matters should continue to be a subject of discussion and debate within the ILEA , leading to new proposals after the five-year implementation period . |