Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] assumed " in BNC.

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1 Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on .
2 It has been assumed that the eggs are contaminated too but the evidence is weak , ’ he said .
3 Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel 's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services .
4 It has been assumed that there were two reasons why Mrs Thatcher decided to leave these shores .
5 In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information .
6 It has been assumed that the superpowers acting in unison can bring sufficient pressure to bear on their respective clients to enable peace negotiations .
7 In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care .
8 It was , however , the advice of the law officers of the day , and it has been assumed to be correct ( inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953 ) , that upon failure of male heirs , primogeniture should apply as well to females .
9 Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement .
10 It has been assumed , for example , that the units of language analysis that figure in models of linguistic description are necessarily valid as units of language for pedagogic purposes .
11 This distinction has been widely overlooked in modern missionary strategy to the extent that when a church has resulted in a particular country , it has been assumed that an adequate base for evangelisation has been established .
12 From earliest times it has been assumed that at least some dreams are important — bearing messages either from the gods or from the dreamer 's subconscious , depending upon one 's cultural context .
13 So far it has been assumed that levels of processing within the system operate serially , from the pattern recognition , to the lexical look-up , then onto syntactic and semantic analysis .
14 It has been assumed that goods and services were traded by exchange , although relative values would have been complicated and difficult to agree .
15 Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other .
16 The wild relatives of most of the plants of the African savannah complex grow today in the savannah and it has been assumed that they were domesticated somewhere within that zone .
17 Traditionally , it has been assumed that this information is derived from non-visual sources such as the vergence angle of the eyes .
18 It has been assumed there is a labour force to manage .
19 It has been assumed by some writers that statements of attainment should be adapted for children with learning difficulties by producing more detailed learning hierarchies than the statutory orders provide .
20 The mixed forest and holm oaks which , it has been assumed , once covered much of the peninsula have gone .
21 That the pretended power of dispensing with lawes or the Execution of lawes by regall authority as it has been assumed and exercised of late is illegall .
22 It has been assumed that , if an arbitrage opportunity arises , it is immediately possible to trade index futures and the corresponding basket of shares .
23 Whilst it has been assumed that these charges were fabricated by Musgrave ( and perhaps by Thomas Cromwell , q.v. ) , there is evidence to suggest that Dacre did indeed have private arrangements with the Scots which served to divert their raids away from his estates and on to Bewcastle .
24 This is because it has been assumed ( e.g. by Argyle and Cook , 1976 ) that monitoring the behaviour of a listener involves a certain amount of attention and often increases the speaker 's level of arousal .
25 In the type of decision considered so far it has been assumed that the decision is presented in a clear form .
26 Hence it has been assumed that because the user carries out known-item searches , known items do meet the user 's information needs .
27 In the calculation of moduli , whether the " chain " modulus or the bulk modulus , it has been assumed that the displacements are small enough for a Hookean spring to be the model for the interaction .
28 Moreover , it has been assumed that the mean and variance of v is not affected , but this may not be the right normalization .
29 Similarly , it has been assumed that voters consider only alternatives in a small neighbourhood of the current position .
30 In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title .
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