Example sentences of "[prep] [be] assume that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 But if wives , as wives , are unable to generate a reasonable income for themselves and their children either from the state or from the labour market , then it has to be assumed that their husbands will ‘ keep ’ them .
2 Whereas it used to be assumed that she would follow him around the country and around the world , it is now not uncommon for wives to decide to stay put in order to further their own careers , or so that they do not disrupt their children 's education .
3 It is to be assumed that his results on the Flettner rotor are as valid .
4 Is it to be assumed that his very presence amounts to an implied threat ?
5 I was frequently called out of my classes to interpret for him , and it began to be assumed that he would never talk at all .
6 Someone had thus moved the body , and it had to be assumed that it was the same person who had pushed her on to the plough .
7 As little as 40 years or so ago , it often tended to be assumed that there was a nice simple relationship , a sort of ‘ black box ’ effect , that looked like Figure 6.1 .
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