Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] [adv] assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 patient proved positive but because the patient was an injection drug user undergoing lymph-node biopsy it was reasonably assumed that this was not an occupational exposure . |
| 2 | In a commercial or industrial setting it is often assumed that organisations try to maximise profits as their main goal . |
| 3 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , chaired by Lord Diamond and originally set up by the Wilson government in 1974 to appease the unions over a wealth tax , made a series of oracular judgements which confirmed the progress which was generally assumed . |
| 4 | They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying . |
| 5 | However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships . |
| 6 | In theory it is typically assumed that we are concerned with the distribution of taxes and benefits among individuals according to their ability to pay ( the normative basis for this is not discussed here — see Lecture 11 ) ; in empirical work , this is typically taken to mean measured money income . |
| 7 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 8 | As we explained in section 4.2 , the model we are considering assumes that prices in each market move each period to equate supply and demand in each market . |
| 9 | For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways . |
| 10 | The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 . |
| 11 | As finch ( 1989 ) describes , it is commonly asserted that this century has seen the demise of the extended family structure which is commonly assumed to have been the norm at previous points in time . |
| 12 | The term substantial steps is used because prior to that stage it is generally assumed that there is nothing for the offeror to disclose publicly . |