Example sentences of "[adv] be assumed " in BNC.

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31 Of course , it should not be assumed that prescribing of psychotropic medication for such problems actually causes patients to take overdoses .
32 Indeed , now that growth in energy demand can not be assumed , there is the further issue that each new nuclear station directly reduces coal demand .
33 The use made of resources allocated is as important as the extent of the original allocation : it can not be assumed that budgeting money or designating a staff member as training officer , will ensure more than nominal training unless there is more than nominal commitment to the concept that systematic training should be integral to library management .
34 However , it is worth noting that this task of leading housegroups is one of the most difficult in the whole church and it should not be assumed that everyone will be able to do it .
35 It should not be assumed that there will never be circumstances when , notwithstanding the new CGT rules , someone domiciled and resident in the UK should set up an offshore trust .
36 It should not be assumed — though in the literature on the subject it often is — that political élites necessarily desire an effective means of mass communication or have any clear policy on how to use it .
37 However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al .
38 If a person intends doing someone harm , it can not be assumed that s/he displays a disdain towards humanity , although it is clearly directed towards the particular intended victim .
39 For those who love labels , then , modern British literature in that aspect might conveniently be called Aristophanic — provided , that is , it is well understood that its novelists and playwrights can not be assumed to have taken any attentive interest in ancient Greek comedy , and that coincidence is all it is .
40 Even so , it should not be assumed that the abolition of public examinations would necessarily put an end to transmission styles of teaching .
41 Economic historians , in contrast to economists , are wholly concerned with the explanation of events in the real world over real time and in which irrationality and inconsistency , arising from imperfect knowledge or blind prejudice , are frequently dominant elements which can not be assumed away by means of such abstractions as ceteris paribus ( other things being equal ) and rational time .
42 However , his teacher warned that proficiency in conversational language should not be assumed to equate with proficiency in cognitive or ‘ academic ’ language .
43 Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance .
44 It should not be assumed that such an argument was merely a cloak for self-interest and greed .
45 Although he was paid a handsome salary by GE to be a morale booster and public relations spokesman , it should not be assumed that his role was merely that of a glad hander , a retired film star capitalizing on a fading reputation .
46 The defection of southern Democrats was essential , but it should not be assumed that this came about automatically , As Stockman makes clear , a whole series of ad hoc coalitions involving many unreliable allies had to be painstakingly constructed .
47 Sexuality may be a component in stratification by gender but it can not be assumed a priori by a process of projection in which the male sociologist , himself accustomed to thinking of women in these terms , imposes his own proclivities and preoccupations on the data he is analysing .
48 A common approach can not be assumed : most district and regional managers have spent their careers in the acute sector , and have little understanding of the interlocking network of roles , relationships , and agencies that constitute primary care .
49 It can not be assumed , however , that such organisational interests necessarily serve particular external interests … .
50 It can not be assumed , either by the sociologist or by anyone else , that particular policy measures are in any way neutral instruments which are somehow divinely ‘ right ’ for the particular society concerned .
51 It should not be assumed , however , that when religious beliefs have functioned as primitive science , it has always been to the detriment of further inquiry .
52 Instead we will discuss together all design variations in each particular field ; within a field it should not be assumed that the more complex facilities are the later ones , since evolution has often been towards simplifying systems from the programmer 's viewpoint .
53 But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them .
54 Although owning a car is common today , it must not be assumed that all nurses can provide their own transport .
55 Good rapport can not be assumed ; it has to be cultivated and regularly tended .
56 It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification .
57 It can not be assumed that in all cultures and historical epochs the expression of disparaging remarks about other peoples creates a bad impression .
58 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 .
59 That this can not be assumed of language , which appears to serve just such a purpose , has been illustrated very clearly by the linguist Lehrer in an analysis of the language used in the description of wines .
60 Although the artefact may stand for a particular form of production , it can not be assumed that it will do so , or that the divisions which appear as significant from one perspective upon modern society will necessarily emerge as the major dimensions of differentiation in the object world .
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