Example sentences of "[pron] is supposed " in BNC.
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| 1 | The different expectancies generated by these cues can then , it is supposed , themselves serve as cues . |
| 2 | Generally , however , it is supposed that this was not possible . |
| 3 | The collapse of the Maya Civilisation around AD 900 , it is supposed , could have happened because intensive crop-growing ceased for environmental or other reasons . |
| 4 | I simply wish to point out that if it is supposed that Karen Parsons and I embarked that afternoon with the intention of drowning her husband , why did we wait till we had reached a point where our criminal acts were overlooked by at least fifteen witnesses ? |
| 5 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 6 | Meantime , there was a lot happening just down the street to capture his attention , as troop after troop of soldiers passed through Frome on their way somewhere else : 300 of the Staffordshire Militia came in April of 1799 , replaced by an equal number of the same later in the month ; then the 300-strong Somerset Supplementary Militia arrived from Wells , complete with their own band , followed by the glorious Fifteenth Light Dragoons — ‘ It is supposed that these are the finest men and horses of any regiment in England ’ ; and the next year no fewer than nine hundred men of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons came at one go . |
| 7 | It is supposed that thoughts can not just come and go , but need a person to think them . |
| 8 | For instance , if it is supposed that some of our perceptual judgements have a form of intrinsic credibility , and if a set of canons of rationality can be justified without recourse to the special sciences — they are analytic , self-evident , or a conventionally adopted linguistic framework — then it may be possible to trace the credibility of all rational beliefs to that possessed by this foundation . |
| 9 | What we must then do , it is supposed , is to turn our attention to a primitive idea of over-all similarity between possible worlds . |
| 10 | So it is supposed . |
| 11 | If it is supposed that there is a want of definiteness about the idea of something 's " occurring within consciousness " , we can as well speak of anything whatever of which there is a logical possibility that an individual can discriminate it in his or her or its consciousness . |
| 12 | Interestingly , the exhibition identifies two paintings in particular as possessing this quality of intimacy : William Nicholson 's and Victor Pasmore 's portraits of their respective in which the intimacy of the marital relationship , it is supposed , finds direct pictorial expression in the paintings themselves . |
| 13 | This is clear evidence that religious output , despite some criticisms of its style and approach , is by no means the anathema for viewers that it is supposed from the purely commercial viewpoint of some broadcasters . |
| 14 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 15 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 16 | The Soviet media noted that this meeting would also raise the issue of American military bases in the Philippines ‘ where it is supposed the Pentagon has already been able to site nuclear weapons secretly ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ … So , then , the lady typewriter set up a stationery shop in the High Street with , it is supposed , the contents of the Dean 's stationery cupboard . |
| 18 | It is supposed that the major factor behind this trend is the financial pressure faced by local authorities , especially as a result of reductions in the amount of central government grant that they receive . |
| 19 | It is supposed that pupils ' attitudes should also be affected by lesson activities and the classroom environment they experience during a course of computer education . |
| 20 | It is supposed that the ratio between the actual and predicted hospital mortalities , a value known as the standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) , can be used to compare ICUs , but the following example illustrates the problem . |
| 21 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 22 | If it is supposed that the last acknowledgement to pass between the parties is a counter-offer then at this stage no contract has been created . |
| 23 | He is supposed , presumably , to think one of the following : |
| 24 | We follow him in treating these aspects of the life course as a moral career , since they are concerned with a person 's reputation , a kind of continuous summing up of his life in terms of what sort of person he is supposed by his fellows to be . |