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

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1 This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all .
2 These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 It has been assumed by many that this will lead to a system of ‘ educational inheritance ’ directly comparable to that observed in capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , pp. 231–2 ) .
7 Prior to that , it had been assumed on all sides that the passing of Budget resolutions conferred sufficient interim authority , but in 1913 , in Bowles v Bank of England [ 1913 ] 1 Ch 57 , the courts decided that this was not the case and the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 resulted .
8 The first phases of the campaign were exclusively naval operations , since it had been assumed by the British War Cabinet and the French that a naval force could not only bombard and destroy the Turkish forts on the peninsula but in some way occupy Constantinople .
9 Rather it had been assumed in order that those phenomena could become intelligible to the mind .
10 It had been assumed in the first phase of the research ( in the inner-city areas ) that considerable variation in length could be accommodated within the standard paradigm by assuming that the feature [ +low ] implied [ -long ] and vice versa .
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