Example sentences of "often assume [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Fast word-by-word recognition was often assumed as the basis of the model .
2 They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying .
3 The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory .
4 However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships .
5 Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England .
6 Rafiq was studying his magazine with the kind of intense concentration often assumed by those who are listening to other people 's conversations .
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