Example sentences of "be presumed [prep] [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Since they are presumed to be the only judges of how good their work is , no layman or other outsider can make any judgment of what they can do . |
2 | Blacks are presumed to be the superior race , largely thanks to their emotional temperaments and intuitive thinking , and whites to be inferior , because of their repressed feelings and addiction to bloodless rationality . |
3 | When there is a contractual retiring age for all or nearly all employees in a particular job , that is presumed to be the normal retiring age . |
4 | The short-run inability to unscramble market signals was presumed to be the particular affliction of suppliers , i.e. the suppliers of commodities and the suppliers of factor services . |
5 | There was a firm 6×4 cm swelling to the right of the midline scar in the adbomen which was presumed to be the recurrent tumour . |