Example sentences of "been assume [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I note that in two of the main authorities to which we have been referred on the substantive issues , Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 and In re Findlay [ 1985 ] A.C. 318 , it seems to have been assumed without argument that this court had jurisdiction . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions . |
| 7 | These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness . |
| 8 | Previously , the ages given by kimberlite-derived zircons ( mostly megacrysts ) have been assumed to be reset to the time of eruption and cooling . |
| 9 | For Marxist sociology , as we have seen , cause and correction have not usually been problematic , since capitalism has been assumed to be the cause and the transition to socialism the cure ; their attention has been more directed to capitalist law-creation and-enforcement . |
| 10 | Lafford is a prebend of Lincoln Cathedral , and Richard has been assumed to be also identifiable as Richard de Bello ( of Battle , probably Battle in Sussex ) who was prebendary of Lafford in 1277 and who was also treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral by October 1270 , until at least April 1278 . |
| 11 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 12 | In his young days unmarried men had been assumed to be wicked dogs , gay bachelors . |
| 13 | Similarly , the payment schedule has been assumed to be independent of efficiency , but incentive schemes can be introduced where there are observable measures of output . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Many have accused schools of trying to prop up ailing churches and fill empty pews , and Christian teachers in particular have been assumed to be heavily biased , teaching for commitment to their particular brand of religion and intolerant towards other religions and other world views . |
| 16 | It seems to have been assumed throughout the discussions leading up to the signature of the Convention that the use of the postal channel was indeed a mode of service , of notification . |
| 17 | A Libyan connection had , in any case , been assumed from the start , by Lester Coleman as well as most other experts aware of Libya 's role as supplier of arms and explosives to terrorist factions around the world . |
| 18 | As well as the traditional role of arranging for teachers to spend time in business other responsibilities have been assumed by the teacher placement organiser . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The latter might well have suffered from an increase in continentality of climate following regression , but it has not unreasonably been assumed by most palaeontologists that a planktonic group such as the globigerinid foraminifera should have been indifferent to what was happening to epicontinental seas . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 23 | The insignia of royalty that had been assumed by the papacy reflected a monarchical form and structure of government . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 25 | An initial surface temperature of 10° C has been assumed in all cases . |
| 26 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 27 | Rather it had been assumed in order that those phenomena could become intelligible to the mind . |
| 28 | In this work , rather than being reduced to utility or competitive status display , goods are examined in terms of their expressive and symbolic function , and the central thesis with respect to this is one which has largely been assumed in the present work . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On the production side , the mark-up may be determined to achieve a post-tax target ( as has been assumed in some versions of the cost plus pricing rule ) ; and in this case the price , and hence the output , of the corporate sector would be affected . |