Example sentences of "[be] assume [prep] be [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |
| 2 | Even if working-class crime is promoted by the same features of capitalism as produce socialist consciousness this is no basis for automatically equating them : working-class crime may express purely personal goals or , if there are some wider underlying objectives , they can not necessarily be assumed to be socialist ones . |
| 3 | If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ? |
| 4 | From the individual 's point of view , bonds and equities are assumed to be perfect substitutes . |
| 5 | In analysing this , we retain in this section the simplifying assumptions about production ( there are assumed to be constant returns to scale and no intermediate goods ) . |
| 6 | Second , even if straightforward authoritarianism and minimisation of wages are assumed to be universal features of capitalist rationality , it is difficult to claim that this ‘ rationality ’ is uniformly imposed in practice as a function of the ‘ undisputed authority of the capitalist ’ ( Marx ) . |
| 7 | In his young days unmarried men had been assumed to be wicked dogs , gay bachelors . |