Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] assumed " in BNC.

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31 It is not surprising that the women who had epidural analgesia had significantly longer labours , a greater requirement for oxytocin , and a higher rate of instrumental delivery as such factors increase the need for epidural analgesia and therefore can not be assumed to result from it .
32 It is also clear that the cooperation of the water companies can not be assumed .
33 Under experimental conditions , old people in NHS nursing homes may do at least as well as those in traditional geriatric wards , but the same can not be assumed of units removed from the traditions and surveillance of a health or social services hierarchy .
34 This fact needs to be explained and can not be assumed , or read off , in terms of the logic of capitalism .
35 Much political research still relies on this approach to explain how government is maintained , but immediate problems that present themselves are that it can not be assumed either that the institutions or organisations themselves do really exercise power or that their nominal members are all equally active in such exercise of power as there is .
36 But it can not be assumed that these developments have in fact led to equality within the sexual sphere of marriage .
37 Because of this , a poetic utterance has no functional ties with the real context in which it is produced and can not be assumed to refer to any aspect of its producer 's existence .
38 Whereas one human being can direct ‘ a look ’ towards another human being , ‘ the gaze ’ can not be assumed by anyone .
39 This is now the nearest railway to Bishop 's Castle and Clun , but its future can not be assumed .
40 Likewise they implicitly assume that over the medium-term ( 3-10 years ) , the supply side can not be assumed to be constant .
41 Papers subsequently published by such researchers may show no obvious Scottish connection in their titles , but it can not be assumed that the work is unrelated to their thesis topic .
42 All suggestions are given in good faith and for general help and guidance but since detail may vary with different roofs they can not be assumed to be suitable for every application .
43 Papers subsequently published by such researchers may show no obvious Scottish connection in their titles , but it can not be assumed that the work is unrelated to their thesis topic .
44 This can not be assumed so easily in variable analysis .
45 It simply can not be assumed that samples selected for their distinctiveness on one variable will vary randomly on others .
46 It can not be assumed , as can reasonably in many experiments in natural science , that units are identical .
47 Patients with PBC and PHT can not be assumed to have portal hypertension without investigation as primary PHT may be associated with PBC without portal hypertension .
48 It can not be assumed that symptoms are caused by disturbed gastric emptying .
49 The promising possibility of omeprazole enhanced antibiotic treatment for H pylori associated diseases can not be assumed unconditionally for antimicrobial compounds other than amoxicillin .
50 While the benefits of faster growth may spread throughout the EC , it can not be assumed that this will occur in a balanced manner .
51 Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge , but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change .
52 Since this is one aspect of the " ongoing negotiation " and preferences of " newcomers " to the interaction can not be assumed at the outset , the circumstances which will most favour a speedy agreement to use Creole are those where there are few participants — ideally the minimum , two — and these individuals are already well known to each other , and known to favour Creole .
53 that it can not be assumed that a paper print out of an electronic record from these systems is the same as the electronic version , on the grounds that the paper version does not bring with it the context that gives the information provenance and credibility .
54 However , it can not be assumed that all managers will consider the role of personality when they make decisions .
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