Example sentences of "been assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the tendency has been to assume that if behaviourist notions can not account for all aspects of language learning it can not account for any . |
| 2 | Our mistake in the past has been to assume that because other forms of life perceive things differently from us , they are necessarily inferior : they are not . |
| 3 | We had been assuming that it was the absence of the teacher which created the unique benefits of collaborative learning . |
| 4 | ‘ It has been assumed that the eggs are contaminated too but the evidence is weak , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel 's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services . |
| 6 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 7 | In the general election of 1970 there had , for instance , been no discussion of the settlement issue ; it had been assumed that ujamaa would continue to be a voluntary movement . |
| 8 | It has been assumed that there were two reasons why Mrs Thatcher decided to leave these shores . |
| 9 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 10 | It has been assumed that the superpowers acting in unison can bring sufficient pressure to bear on their respective clients to enable peace negotiations . |
| 11 | It had always , I think , been assumed that I might try to get to Oxford , and history ( by an equally mysterious process ) became the subject of my choice . |
| 12 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 13 | It has traditionally been assumed that a gradual decrease in intensity of Hercynian folding has resulted in the stratigraphic relationships observed within the late Carboniferous . |
| 14 | In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care . |
| 15 | It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage — the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal . |
| 16 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 17 | It had been assumed that , because the journey would only take a few hours , it was better to be in the open air than in the dark and unventilated cargo holds . |
| 18 | Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same , regardless of where they came from . |
| 19 | It has consistently been assumed that Parliament can abolish the House of Lords , though in order to do so , a Bill to this effect would have to be passed . |
| 20 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 21 | It had always been assumed that Gooch wanted to spend time with his family before the new home season begins in April . |
| 22 | This distinction has been widely overlooked in modern missionary strategy to the extent that when a church has resulted in a particular country , it has been assumed that an adequate base for evangelisation has been established . |
| 23 | From earliest times it has been assumed that at least some dreams are important — bearing messages either from the gods or from the dreamer 's subconscious , depending upon one 's cultural context . |
| 24 | So far it has been assumed that levels of processing within the system operate serially , from the pattern recognition , to the lexical look-up , then onto syntactic and semantic analysis . |
| 25 | She merely packed the pair of Purdeys away in a trunk in the attic , locked the trunk , and told no one , and it must have been assumed that they were sold with the rest of his things . |
| 26 | It has been assumed that goods and services were traded by exchange , although relative values would have been complicated and difficult to agree . |
| 27 | Until now it has been assumed that social changes are determined by events which have the same status in the sense that they may all be conditions and consequences of each other . |
| 28 | The talks between Electronic Data Systems Corp and British Telecommunications Plc about a possible alliance have cooled , the Wall Street Journal believes : rather surprisingly , the paper says that British Telecom had been considering buying 25% of General Motors Corp 's Class E shares , which simply pay dividends tied to the computer services subsidiary 's performance ; it had been assumed that British Telecom would not be interested in holding a significant minority interest in an automaker just to cement an alliance with one of its subsidiaries . |
| 29 | Capping entitlements has never been popular , mainly because it has always been assumed that social-security recipients ( old-age pensioners ) would be hardest hit . |
| 30 | The wild relatives of most of the plants of the African savannah complex grow today in the savannah and it has been assumed that they were domesticated somewhere within that zone . |