Example sentences of "it is assumed that " in BNC.

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61 First of all , it is assumed that in any mode of production where surplus value is not returned to the producers but is taken by other members of society , some justification of this distribution of wealth is required .
62 Only because it is assumed that if people understood the system in which they were involved they would not put up with it , and it would not go on .
63 It is assumed that research has established what the nature of child abuse is , who the actual and potential perpetrators and victims are and hence what are the associated factors which put children at ‘ high risk ’ .
64 It is assumed that child abuse is preventable and predictable via a judicious reading of the research findings .
65 As the Beckford Report commented , quoting the work of the late Henry Kempe , it is assumed that ‘ child abuse is a disease whose carrier is the parent and whose victim is the child ’ ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 , p.88 ) .
66 When applied to child abuse , then , it is assumed that if we can identify the characteristics associated with actual or potential abuse we will be able to identify and hence predict and prevent the problem .
67 It is assumed that the μ and ratios in the precursor source , that is before enrichment , were variable in proportion to their respective Pb isotope ratios .
68 PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions .
69 In medical practice , and especially in medical economics , it is assumed that the identification of a foetus with a disability by amniocentesis ( CVS ) will inevitably lead to an abortion .
70 In both , it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles .
71 It is assumed that there is sufficient uniformity to facilitate the specification of situations and circumstances that make it more , or less , likely to occur .
72 This has a methodological implication as well : all too often it is assumed that Foucault 's stress on disruption can be taken as equivalent to randomness , as we have seen with Perry Anderson .
73 As with his genealogical history , Foucault 's meditations on power are not themselves without problems , but reactions to them can also be too hastily dismissive , often because it is assumed that they are proposed as a general theory .
74 A business mistake is made , and it is assumed that the mistake would have been avoided if somebody at a higher position in the organization had known about it , or had intervened .
75 It is assumed that on completion of a form some amount of discussion between the lexicographers and the New OED Computer Group will be required to enable the request to be actioned .
76 Although no birds are in evidence , it is assumed that this Labour is indicated .
77 Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case !
78 In other words , it is assumed that the investor trades on a time basis ; he would be selling in any event , irrespective of the insider trader and without being influenced by the price of the security in question .
79 Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention .
80 The Aristotelian view , as I have interpreted it , ‘ works ’ only to the extent that it is assumed that there is no problem about what I shall call ‘ the autonomy of desires ’ .
81 For it is assumed that God , who is conceived in highly anthropomorphic terms , has given what amounts to a blueprint to humanity as to what His will may be .
82 If they are placed in secondary roles , or it is assumed that women 's identity is to be found in mothering , then the fact of their presence reinforces a certain understanding of the feminine .
83 Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues .
84 Consider the matrix unc It is assumed that at this stage we have no knowledge of its eigenvalues .
85 It is assumed that the eigenvalues in unc ( and the corresponding eigenvectors in X ) are so ordered that unc has the eigenvalues unc in descending order of magnitude down the diagonal , so that 1 and the first vector in X define the fundamental frequency and mode .
86 Instead of assuming that their development progresses along a smooth and unproblematic path it is assumed that there have to be mechanisms and policies to overcome constantly recurring disequilibria and attempts to gain some sort of balance ( for example , between agriculture and industry ; between the amounts available for consumption and for investment in new capital ; between money and financial capital on one hand and production on the other ; and , especially , between capital and labour ) .
87 It is assumed that it is only the field man who ‘ really knows ’ what is happening ‘ out there ’ .
88 Nor does the arts/science distinction make much sense in terms of graduate employment , if it is assumed that the distinction is based on a simple non-vocational/vocational one or ‘ non-relevant/relevant ’ one .
89 It is assumed that a text , or a film , is not something which has a set of meanings which can be extracted from it , but something whose meanings exist only because they are part of a wider social world ; people can find meanings only if their world shares some common meanings with that of the text .
90 In short , it is assumed that , because common sense , or social representations , have such contrary themes , they provide matters for discussion and for thought .
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