Example sentences of "assumption that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the assumption that the relevant legislation is not satisfied , what course of action can a minority shareholder who is not a director ( owning say 20% of the share capital ) take to redress the situation when new shares have been systematically issued to existing directors without first being offered on a pro rata basis to all members ? |
| 2 | Some of those who comment on subjects such as the safe disposal of nuclear wastes seem to work on the assumption that the relevant sciences and technologies are standing still . |
| 3 | The companion study on the Canonic Variations similarly reverses the traditional assumption that the printed version was Bach 's offering on joining Mizler 's Corresponding Society in 1747 . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) That , on the assumption that the correct approach for an appeal committee was to determine whether compliance with parental preference would prejudice the provision of efficient education and , if so , to balance the advantages of complying with such preference against the prejudice caused by so doing , the decisions of the appeal committee disclosed no error of law ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 110C–G , 111B–C , H — 112A ) . |
| 5 | The identification of the particular Mufti involved is a subject more suitably dealt with later , but there seems little doubt that the editor is right in his assumption that the grand caliph is , in fact , the Mufti . |
| 6 | The evidence comes primarily from modelling the observed velocity distributions of the stars , and modelling the measured velocities of the ionized streamers with the assumption that the ionized gas is responding only to gravity . |
| 7 | Now there is no definition of what 's small erm erm is erm in er P P G er thirteen and perhaps Mr Curtis could help us in due course erm on an assumption that the new settlement was somewhat larger that th what the County Council is proposing , whether that would erm change the view of York City Council , I I think there is another factor again I could be corrected on this by Mr Curtis and this tended to come out in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , er and that York City Council seem progressively to place more importance on peripheral development than on the new settlement strategy |
| 8 | Gatfield is still surprised by the record-buying public 's assumption that the first record they purchase by a new act must be that artist 's first release . |
| 9 | The search for signs of God in nature had often been based on the assumption that the two books had been written in essentially the same language . |
| 10 | The old assumption that the best club sides were organised by the army and the secret police , who in turn provided the foundations of the national squads , had been overtaken by more commercial considerations . |
| 11 | The treatment of Abdulkerim by Katib Celebi and his followers is consistent ( and interesting ) in so far as they rightly , one believes , place his Muftilik in the time of Mehmed II , in accordance with the and as opposed to the view of the unmodified traditional account ; but on the assumption that the available texts of Katib Celebi and Hezarfen are accurate , the writers connected with the Katib Celebi view appear to differ amongst themselves about the nature and timing of his Muftilik , possibly because Katib Celebi " s list is particularly cryptic and , at first sight , confused at this point . |
| 12 | Politicians seem to work on the assumption that the early bird catches the voter . |
| 13 | This new confidence rests on the now widely held assumption that the Japanese government will do whatever it must to support share prices until company earnings rebound . |
| 14 | The assumption that the lower levels of EGF in oesophagitis are secondary to the oesophagitis has not yet been confirmed . |
| 15 | In fact , by making the assumption that the needle-like fibrils were capable of deforming affinely , Arridge & Barham could explain the change of Young 's modulus with draw ratio as a result of the greater reinforcing efficiency of the fibrils as they became longer and thinner . |
| 16 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 17 | I , I think in fact there 's still an assumption that the real sportsman , the real artist , the real human being is the amateur of each sort , and not the professional . |
| 18 | On the assumption that the economic inequality between the North and the South , the ‘ haves ’ and the ‘ have-nots ’ , can not be allowed to continue , capitalism comes under attack as the engine providing the force to sustain such inequality . |
| 19 | Next we shall determine the mutual inductance between two concentric rings at a distance h apart ( Fig. 3.17 , p. 82 ) under the assumption that the upper ring is small . |
| 20 | A cross-section comparison works on the assumption that the current markets in country A and country B are analogous , and a relationship ( correlation ) exists in both countries between : |
| 21 | But this was based on the assumption that the current tax relief limit of £30,000 would be increased in line with inflation . |
| 22 | He said there was a comfortable assumption that the present situation could not get much worse , but this , unfortunately , could be mistaken . |
| 23 | This idea is based on the assumption that the overall capacity of the organism is limited , an assumption that has , as it happens , been questioned ( Neisser , 1973 ; Allport , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | The line labelled SS is drawn on the assumption that the general expectation of the average level of prices is P . |
| 25 | The yield to average life is simply the yield to maturity under the assumption that the entire bond matures on the date corresponding to the average life at the average redemption price . |
| 26 | In the same way when the are used to describe flow in fluids a " normal stress ' term appears which is ignored in the simpler Newtonian assumption that the shearing stress in fluids is proportional to the rate of strain . |
| 27 | The study was based on an assumption that the maglev route would be running by 1990 . |
| 28 | Bourque and Grossholtz ( 1984 ) argue that the acceptance of ‘ masculinity as ideal political behaviour ’ has dire consequences for studying women : the unquestioned assumption that the political attitudes , behaviour and preferences of men define mature political behaviour means that when women do not match these they are said to be either apolitical or politically naive . |
| 29 | Nirex is working on the assumption that the total volume of waste requiring disposal by the year 2055 will be between 700,000 and 2 million cubic metres . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , though it is a reasonable assumption that the biblical writers used sources , there is little or no objective evidence that this is so . |