Example sentences of "[is] assume [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the minimum figure — a loss of one revolution per overflow record — is assumed as an average , it will certainly not be an overestimate .
2 In the Dinantian rocks which appear to form a major part of the leading Variscan thrust slice , the source potential of the limestones and dolomites ( which represent shallow water facies ) is assumed on the whole to be relatively low .
3 Net out movement of the order of twenty seven thousand , eight hundred people is assumed over the period nineteen e eighty six , two thousand and one .
4 It is assumed throughout the book that she will end up as a spinster .
5 But the document warns : ‘ Real pricing is assumed in every year of the plan , averaging approximately 2 ½ per cent per annum , consistent with the quality improvements which will be brought about by investment . ’
6 Power is assumed by a committee called the Dergue , led by Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam .
7 It is assumed by the survey , and accepted by most historians of the period that married women with children did not go out to work unless they had to .
8 If applications have not been received five months into bodies ’ financial years it is assumed by the Council that they do not need , and therefore do not intend to apply for , grant aid .
9 The responsibility for payment is assumed by the Fund , and if the total costs of the assisted party can not be covered by costs awarded , contribution and damages , the liability of that party to the Fund is nonetheless limited to the original assessed contribution .
10 In Minsky 's case , the philosophical question of whether there are hidden mechanisms that explain , etc. , etc. , never arises , because their existence is assumed from the outset , without discussion .
11 It is assumed from the start that it is the experimenter rather than his subject matter who is in control of events .
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