Example sentences of "can not [adv] be assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not simply be assumed that a parent who is present at the injury of their child has condoned it . |
| 2 | Whether this is the case or not , even the more special crimes such as this one can not automatically be assumed to be outside the scope of the postclassical perspective . |
| 3 | It may be that we are becoming a more ‘ criminal ’ nation as the increase in crime rates would suggest , but this can not just be assumed and it is important to be aware of other possible reasons for such an increase . |
| 4 | The representations which come from members of the public and others can not therefore be assumed in all cases to embody the approach which would be given were a a full understanding of the previous and proposed situations in the mind of those who made that proposal . |
| 5 | On the status dimension , husband-wife equality can not merely be assumed either . |
| 6 | Within an unknown number of marriages as yet unbroken , marital harmony can not always be assumed . |
| 7 | 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 . |