Example sentences of "be assumed that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity .
2 It can therefore be assumed that the Soviet commanders are fully aware of the situation , if not totally in control of it .
3 As the centuries passed and the second coming receded into the remote future , it came more and more to be assumed that the final verdict could be pre-empted .
4 Nor should it be assumed that the young teachers of 30 years ago were all aspiring members of the working class .
5 However , it can be assumed that the political difficulties experienced within China over recent years continue to act as a barrier to any possible growth .
6 It is to be assumed that the general circumstances of the market remain unchanged throughout this period ; that there is , for instance , no change in fashion or taste , no new substitute which might affect the demand , no new invention to disturb the supply .
7 In Rogers v. Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd. ( 1986 ) the Court of Appeal said it could not be assumed that the statutory definition of merchantable quality ( which dates from 1973 ) was merely a codification of earlier judicial pronouncements upon the meaning of merchantable quality ; pre-1973 cases therefore should not be relied upon .
8 Similarly , it should not be assumed that the discovered attitude is necessarily any ‘ truer ’ than the preceding one , rather as if an unconscious motivation had been dragged from the gloom of the id into the bright light of the ego .
9 Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead .
10 Why , then , should it be assumed that the Holy Spirit was particularly active in professors ?
11 In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title .
12 It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage — the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal .
13 But as long as the A level system remains , pupils at school will be required severely to limit their choice of subjects , it being assumed that the only way to ensure ‘ standards of excellence , is to go more and more deeply into an ever narrower range of subjects .
14 Indeed , perceptual constancies are only a puzzle if it is assumed that the visual system acts like a camera .
15 It is assumed that the shallow water Lower Carboniferous carbonates uncomformably overlie a platform of these older rocks , which locally are intersected by the pre-Permian surface because of thrusting or uplift and erosion .
16 Although expressed simply , it is assumed that the necessary liaison takes place between the sub-systems of the model on matters of common interest .
17 In both , it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles .
18 Above it is assumed that the marginal costs of increasing output are themselves increasing .
19 It is governed by the difference equations ( from ( 9–13 ) , ( 9–14 ) and ( 9–15 ) ) , It is assumed that the random terms , and , are independent across individuals , and that the population is sufficiently large that we can replace sample moments by the corresponding population moments , in this way moving from a stochastic to a distributional model .
20 In this approach , it is assumed that the initial conditions are determined by the functions and which represents the wave in region II as it reaches the boundary , and by which represents the wave in region III as it reaches the boundary .
21 Unless it is assumed that the original stream had a meander belt of varying width , we must conclude that the meanders have not only been incised but also more fully developed in the more resistant rock .
22 The approach which is adopted in this book , and which is described in this introductory chapter , is a variety of ‘ contextual ’ approach : it is assumed that the semantic properties of a lexical item are fully reflected in appropriate aspects of the relations it contracts with actual and potential contexts .
23 It is assumed that the purposeful provision of facilities , or the success of intervention strategies to encourage fuller use of available resources , depends critically upon an account of adolescents ' reasoning about leisure .
24 In traditional studies of the way inhomogeneities — lumps of matter in the form of clusters of galaxies — form in the expanding Universe , it is assumed that the dominant influence is a mass , or density perturbation .
25 If it is assumed that the expected volume of output is roughly equal to that experienced in the previous year , , then the higher is , the greater will gross investment tend to be .
26 When Peter Sharp , sixty-one , Manhattan hotelier and real estate developer , died in April 1992 , it was assumed that the Metropolitan Museum would receive his collection as a bequest .
27 It was assumed that the following variables would influence issuance ( bearing in mind that the level of issuance observed results both from demand and supply influences ) .
28 It was assumed that the liquid discharge would disperse and be rendered harmless .
29 It was assumed that the Korean people would docilely accept trusteeship with decisions being taken for them by their American and Soviet masters .
30 it was assumed that the segment-locating process is purely statistical , but this would only be true if ΔΕ 12 was zero ;
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