Example sentences of "assumed that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , it should not be assumed that Jacobitism was based solely — or even primarily — on the legitimist principle .
2 It is assumed that child abuse is preventable and predictable via a judicious reading of the research findings .
3 Gibson ( 1940 ) also assumed that stimulus differentiation , once it had occurred , would transfer to and facilitate performance on a new task involving the same stimuli .
4 Since no comment is made on the author being recently dead , it can be assumed that publication had been arranged while Leapor was still alive .
5 On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores .
6 From a combination of three levels of professional development — unreflective self-evaluation based on practical knowledge , self-evaluation as practical deliberation and self-evaluation as action research — it was assumed that teaching quality would most noticeably be improved through deliberation and action research .
7 This is most common in the case of overlapping when it can be falsely assumed that part of a continuous form is obscured from view .
8 It has been generally accepted that demolition of itself does not constitute development and , although there is some legal uncertainty on the matter , local authorities have typically assumed that demolition is outside the ambit of development control .
9 This is an important point to make , since many theoretical positions both before and after the work of Grice have assumed that omniscience in analysis is a possible option , and analyses are produced that claim to speak for the general reader while also using biographical information on the author from an asserted privileged position ( much of the methodology and work of F.R. Leavis ( e.g. 1936 , 1967 ) and his followers is characterised by this approach ) .
10 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 .
11 This point will , however , be ignored until Chapter 10 , and in the meantime it will be assumed that profit maximisation is in the social interest regardless of the particular market structure within which the company operates .
12 However , as explained , such problems are often symptoms of deeper organisational and management problems : ‘ It is often assumed that stress is caused by too much work or tasks that are too difficult , but it is more likely to be because staff do n't have a context for what they are doing . ’
13 We have always assumed that animal protein was the necessary kind for human health .
14 SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ .
15 These days , it is widely assumed that monitoring of firms by close , caring banks is a better way to run things than the arms-length institutional ownership of America and Britain .
16 Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum .
17 It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable .
18 The ATB records indicated that as much as 70% of all training was undertaken during the winter and it was therefore assumed that winter was the most suitable season for training .
19 It is assumed that income taxation of the family unit should correspond to principles of ‘ ability to pay ’ , i.e. horizontal equity and the minimization of ‘ excess burdens ’ .
20 It is generally assumed that hypergastrinaemia predisposes to the development of gastric carcinoids through progressive hyperplastic changes of fundic endocrine cells .
21 From some authors it may be assumed that pluralism represents an especially naive set of propositions about how political power is perfectly , or nearly perfectly , distributed within Western liberal democracies .
22 Lamarckism still assumed that evolution was driven by the interaction between the organism and its environment , but some opponents of Darwinism insisted that the process must be controlled by forces arising from within the organism .
23 Built during a period of architectural optimism , when it was assumed that technology would triumph , it had been laid out in a series of oblong paved courtyards , surrounded by long , low , concrete-faced buildings , remarkable solely for their brutalism .
24 Sometimes it is incorrectly assumed that listing patients ' problems precludes inclusion of psychiatric diagnosis .
25 It has perhaps been too readily assumed that fear of death among Victorians was primarily fear of hell-fire .
26 This is illustrated in Fig. 4.1 where it is assumed that wage offers increase over time as the individual searches .
27 As religious beliefs can not be proved scientifically they are to be doubted , for it is assumed that religion is just a matter of subjective opinion .
28 In assessing the impact of stories of premature interment , one must bear in mind that for most of the nineteenth century , medical science , such as it was , was helpless in the face of coma and cardiac arrest ; if the patient had apparently ceased breathing and had no discernable heartbeat , it was assumed that death had come .
29 In writing them this way we have assumed that labour is rationed on the supply side , i.e. , that in the factor market .
30 At low levels of arousal it is assumed that attention is divided among many cues so there will potentially be some memory for all cues .
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