Example sentences of "[be] assumed that the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , it should not be assumed that the abolition of public examinations would necessarily put an end to transmission styles of teaching . |
| 2 | Nor ought it to be assumed that the spectrum of lobbies and special-interest groups represents all the proper and vital concerns of society , or that such concerns are properly embodied in balances and compromises between them . |
| 3 | To this extent , of course , a synchronically divergent language state requires the same kind of treatment as a historically divergent state : in neither case can it be assumed that the norms of some ‘ standard ’ variety can be successfully projected on to it . |
| 4 | This suggests that in studies of material representation it should not be assumed that the consumption of a given group will be represented as a coherent and consistent set of forms . |
| 5 | It can be assumed that the degree of power and authority of each role holder increases towards the apex of the hierarchy . |
| 6 | Nor must it be assumed that the whole of the Sahara shared in this climatic amelioration , for , as Gautier says , there are few traces of wadi patterns in the Libyan desert , which , forming the core of the Sahara , was probably less affected . |
| 7 | Nor should it be assumed that the division of the language items into lexis , structure and discourse function presents students with problems of equal difficulty or me with identical roles in each case . |
| 8 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) . |
| 9 | In view of the level at which responsibility for parents and the community was allocated , the pace at which action was taken , the apparently arbitrary way in which membership of the working party was decided and the omission from its membership of key figures in the area of home-school links , it must be assumed that the formulation of an LEA policy in this area was a matter to which the Authority attached a rather low priority during this period . |
| 10 | It must not be assumed that the absence of a 24-hour rhythm in newborn babies means that they have no rhythms at all . |
| 11 | It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the data in question fits neatly within a specific domain at all . |
| 12 | On the vertical axis is plotted the recorded rate of increase of money wage rates , and it may be assumed that the rate of inflation can be closely associated with these rates of wage change because wages are usually the largest component of costs . |
| 13 | The random selection of cases is an approximation to experimental randomisation if it can be assumed that the population from which the sample is drawn is homogeneous : a reasonable assumption when dealing with a population of seeds , plants , germs , etc . |
| 14 | It may be assumed that the impulse of cruelty arises from the instinct for mastery and appears a period of sexual life at which the genitals have not yet taken over their later role . |
| 15 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |