Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [be] assume [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This asserts that the demand for a company 's equity may be assumed to be flat ( perfectly elastic ) for all practical purposes and hence increases in supply will have no discernible effect on the price . |
| 2 | However , normal irregular traffic is not likely to achieve this low figure , and an average loss of 0.75 of a lock will be assumed in estimating the use of water for the passage of boats over the summit . |
| 3 | ‘ Lloyd 's has to decide whether , as Names die or become unable to pay , the risks can be assumed by the Society as a whole or whether the maxim of ‘ Each for his own part ’ is strictly applied . |
| 4 | This type of deformation causes no dilatation and so the observed effects may be assumed to be due to one causes only — structural rearrangements which do not cause a change of volume . |
| 5 | This comfort assumes that the identities , which can be so effortlessly , even unconsciously , adopted in listening to a speech , are not in serious conflict : the categories of ‘ Conservative ’ , ‘ British ’ , ‘ right-thinking ’ all overlap and , in fact , without reflection might be assumed to be virtually synonymous . |
| 6 | Burrough ( 1986 ) suggests that the area of the map covered by lines can be assumed to be an area of uncertainty . |
| 7 | Power costs may be assumed to be 5.5p per kw/hr . |
| 8 | It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise . |
| 9 | Furthermore , a uniformly cylindrical lumen and wall contact at the site of distension must be assumed during distensions . |
| 10 | To the extent that there are shareholders with shares issued under the share option scheme at completion , these vendors will enter into the contract purely as vendors of the shares and all warranties and indemnities will be assumed by the principal shareholders of ABC . |
| 11 | In this chapter , however , we are focussing attention on the behaviour when the effect of such departures can be assumed to be slight . |
| 12 | As we noted , in the canonical situation of utterance , with the assumption of the unmarked deictic centre , RT can be assumed to be identical to CT ( Lyons ( 1977a : 685 ) calls this assumption deictic simultaneity ) . |
| 13 | One problem for the non-native speaker of English is to decide when a group can be assumed to be familiar . |
| 14 | The difference between the two types of selection may be assumed to be of psycholinguistic importance . |
| 15 | The planetary guard of a godling despot must be assumed to be numerous and very well armed — though how well experienced ? |
| 16 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 17 | ‘ This programme is soundly in place at Waterford and is in the process of being implemented in Wedgwood with the expectation that it , too , will be fully in place by year-end or early next year — at which time , having done what I came to do , the chairmanship will be assumed by Dr O'Reilly . |
| 18 | These dimensions can be assumed to be strongly correlated with each other , so that a model of ‘ strong ’ corporatism can be constructed in terms of which specific countries can be ranked . |
| 19 | Subroutines are usually written to be " transparent " to the calling routine ; that is , the processor registers such as accumulators and condition codes can be assumed to be unaltered by the subroutine call , unless they are explicitly part of the subroutine linkage . |
| 20 | Donaldson may be assumed to be referring to the Duke of Hamilton 's mausoleum at Hamilton Palace which Bryce executed after Burn had departed for London . |
| 21 | in its statement of claim must be assumed to be correct . |
| 22 | The concept , now referred to as ‘ universal precautions , ’ stresses that all patients should be assumed to be infectious for HIV , HBV , and other blood-borne pathogens . |
| 23 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 24 | However , of much more concern to Blythen Jenkins , head of corporate affairs with the IoD , is the tendency ‘ in all legislation where the liability of the company is involved , such as environmental or consumer protection , to have a little paragraph in it saying liability shall be assumed by the directors and officers of the company ’ . |
| 25 | The conference decision arose from an implicit assumption by the Carnegie Trustees that following a three-year funding of successful pilot schemes , subsequent responsibility would be assumed by LEAs . |
| 26 | Simple pre-exposure may be assumed to be an effective method for reducing associability because it allows the rapid formation either of a strong stimulus — no event association or of associations among stimulus elements , just as consistent reinforcement allows the rapid formation of a strong CS-US association . |
| 27 | It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables . |
| 28 | Firstly , by what mechanism do patients or consumers become insured and , secondly how is health care supplied and paid for ? [ … ] under the pure Type 11 model described here , effectively all residents of a locality would be assumed to be ‘ insured ’ with their local health authority . |
| 29 | Thus by overtly infringing some maxim , the speaker can force the hearer to do extensive inferencing to some set of propositions , such that if the speaker can be assumed to be conveying these then at least the over-arching cooperative principle would be sustained . |
| 30 | The copper can be assumed to be uniformly distributed across the section but it only occupies a fraction unc of the space available ; the current density in the copper is to be J. |