Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] assumed [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; ( d ) assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessments by teachers . |
| 2 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; |
| 3 | They should be ignored in normal practice and disinfection should be assumed to have taken place only at the time a chemical has been applied and after the requisite contact time has elapsed . |
| 4 | They are for estimating purposes only and should be assumed to have an accuracy no greater than + 25% . |
| 5 | What we need to determine now is what further processes , if any , must be assumed to operate during the habituation procedure if the results of studies of latent inhibition are to be explained . |
| 6 | Member States must be assumed to have actual or at least constructive knowledge of an organisation 's actions , so that they can not claim ignorance of them . |
| 7 | Lord Bridge did not in fact refer to section 6(1) of the Act of 1977 which was the precursor to section 69(1) , but I accept that he must be assumed to have had it in mind . |
| 8 | Therefore , unless excluded from the greenbelt by a particular process , all land in this area must be assumed to have a greenbelt purpose . |
| 9 | In addition , low profits might be assumed to have lowered expectations of future profits and hence weakened the incentive to invest — a factor shown by the Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) to have been far more important in determining investment policy than the rate of interest . |
| 10 | Still flexing his fingers , he started to dig them into the base of her neck , or rather , in the area where her neck might be assumed to begin . |
| 11 | After all , now that women in particular live longer , middle age might be assumed to begin a few years later too . |
| 12 | It was possible to teach one single set of paddling techniques because all boats could be assumed to work in roughly the same way . |
| 13 | The ‘ conglomerate ’ regression equation could be assumed to apply to Panaragua . |
| 14 | Society has the right , according to Devlin , to protect itself from immoral acts , and these acts are immoral if , by definition , every ‘ right-minded ’ person could be assumed to consider them so . |
| 15 | If this were true , then men and women who are married to each other could be assumed to have the same standard of living . |
| 16 | Courts are likely to be faced with more complex parliamentary history and consequently more difficulty in determining whether a statement may be assumed to demonstrate parliamentary intention . |
| 17 | Since principal investigators may be assumed to influence the selection of coauthors , the popularity of the Vancouver convention raises a testable hypothesis — namely , that senior authors may favour six author articles over seven author articles . |
| 18 | Such units may be termed secondary ( the primary/secondary distinction here is not , of course , a strict dichotomy — the accessibility , or ease of activation , of lexical units may be assumed to vary continuously ) . |
| 19 | Further , the body will be assumed to oscillate at one angular frequency ο . |
| 20 | For every £250 ( or part of £250 ) over £3,000 you will be assumed to have an extra £1.00 per week income . |
| 21 | For example , if you have £4,200 savings you will be assumed to have an extra £5.00 per week income , even if you are not actually receiving any interest from your savings . |
| 22 | We can begin by considering the mixing of N 1 molecules of component ( 1 ) with N 2 molecules of component ( 2 ) and this can be assumed to take place on a hypothetical lattice containing cells of equal size . |
| 23 | Because of the substantial sums of money being provided by the profession and the Government , if for no other reason , both can be assumed to continue to have an important say in policy making , but clearly the effect is in some sense to establish a middle ground . |
| 24 | Virtually any Arts and Crafts or Art Nouveau building can be assumed to have had a highly elaborate shopfront beneath . |
| 25 | Since the North West had some 8,700 pubs in 1981 , of which approximately 57 per cent were tied , the approximate division can be assumed to have been as follows : |
| 26 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 27 | However , if lenders and borrowers can be assumed to look further ahead than the immediate moment , and if their guesses about the future are anywhere near what eventually happens , the level of real interest rates in 1984–5 may be better represented by one of the last two columns of Table 8.3 . |
| 28 | The number of intervening sentences in which the item was not mentioned is one obvious variable , but more interesting would be the effect of such discourse boundaries as a change of scene , where a whole set of items can be assumed to enter the consciousness of the addressee , presumably pushing out old ones . |