Example sentences of "the [noun] [be] assumed to be " in BNC.

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1 In Romantic-Crocean terms , the experience is assumed to be both unique and ineffable , to be undergone in a form of negative capability , without , in Keats 's words , any irritable reaching after fact and reason .
2 ( d ) Overflow can not occur on multiplication if the values are assumed to be integral , but multiplication of two operands both of which are the maximum negative number causes overflow under the fractional convention .
3 In any Open Door disagreement , the employee is assumed to be right unless the manager has impeccable documentation to the contrary .
4 The density of the intrusions is assumed to be 2,800kgm -3 , the same as the surrounding material .
5 For intergroup comparison the data were assumed to be non-parametric and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum comparison was used .
6 The culprit was assumed to be the young woman whose charred body had been trapped by the flames ; she was identified as a feminist — funny , when PopCon had been giving money and moral support to feminist groups .
7 In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous .
8 It was feared that members of Mboya 's Luo tribe would retaliate against the Kikuyu , the group who dominated the country 's political life and of which the assassins were assumed to be members .
9 The purposes are assumed to be the public good .
10 Each line of the file is assumed to be a role name .
11 As Professor Chapman observes , high status nursing can be seen as a route to social mobility ; the more closely the nurse works with a doctor as a member of the team , the more prestigious the job is assumed to be .
12 A second barrel was opened , and a third , but some said this was n't necessary , for it was the accepted custom that if one barrel was found to be wanting , the shortage was assumed to be the same in all the rest .
13 In this approach the chain is assumed to be contained in a hypothetical tube which is placed initially in a three dimensional network formed from the other entangled chains .
14 Saving S in the economy is assumed to be related to income levels also , in a similar manner to consumption .
15 In these models the economy is assumed to be adjusting continuously rather than moving in discrete jumps at intervals ( annual or quarterly ) corresponding to the available data .
16 The variable is assumed to be distributed independently of I and N ( and of other random terms ) , and across generations , with constant mean and variance .
17 The airflow over the tail is assumed to be a steady uniform flow comprising the vector sum of the bird 's velocity and the induced velocity generated by the wings .
18 The warhorses are assumed to be slain or incapacitated , but any surviving crew may continue to fight on foot .
19 This permits people to be punished for crimes that are assumed to have taken place , and of which the suspect is assumed to be guilty , without any formalities of proof , evidence or charges .
20 The picture was not seen as ‘ a moment of time ’ but the wings were assumed to be spread for a long period ( Goldsmith , 1984 , pp.2–3 ) .
21 The expenditure costs T of the project are assumed to be allocated over n districts so that and the tax bill for the ith district is where .
22 Hence the police are assumed to be in the right , capable only of restrained reaction to provocation .
23 In Fig. 11–8 the bureau is assumed to be maximizing the size of its budget and producing an output of Oq b .
24 The number is assumed to be of a certain maximum field width and the process also terminates if this field width is reached .
25 On the other hand , if Scottish political life in the counties is assumed to be explained by the suggestion that bribery was all in all , this would be a misleading impression , for many freeholders were less in the pocket of a political manager than the managers themselves would have liked to think , or conventional accounts would suggest .
26 Too often the company is assumed to be a collection of assets , available to the highest bidder .
27 Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment .
28 The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony .
29 Alternatively , the outcomes are assumed to be indicative of the quality of the educational process .
30 The operator is assumed to be reacting to a situation in a control room , containing a great variety of dials , charts , and computer driven displays together with the controls needed to take action in any part of the system .
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