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

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31 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 .
32 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 .
33 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 .
34 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 .
35 It can not be assumed , however , that such organisational interests necessarily serve particular external interests … .
36 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 .
37 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 .
38 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 .
39 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 .
40 Although owning a car is common today , it must not be assumed that all nurses can provide their own transport .
41 Good rapport can not be assumed ; it has to be cultivated and regularly tended .
42 It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification .
43 It can not be assumed that in all cultures and historical epochs the expression of disparaging remarks about other peoples creates a bad impression .
44 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 .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 This suggests that in studies of material representation it should not be assumed that the consumption of a given group will be represented as a coherent and consistent set of forms .
48 However , at present it must not be assumed that sales always produce immediate problems .
49 In addition , it should not be assumed that long-term trends in income distribution continue forever : there is evidence that recent years have seen significant changes in these trends in Britain .
50 However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised .
51 Treaty could not be assumed to disregard .
52 The fact that Lords of Appeal in Ordinary and other senior judges are invited to advise the visitor show that this can not be assumed .
53 It can not be assumed , therefore , that stimulation would not have had some effect on another occasion in those patients who were stimulated but showed no interference in their speech .
54 So also , it must not be assumed that Ministers and civil servants regard judicial decisions as necessarily embodying the ultimate wisdom , especially where those decisions limit their powers .
55 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 .
56 It is also clear that the cooperation of the water companies can not be assumed .
57 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 .
58 It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore .
59 However , it should not be assumed that these low-cost alternatives can not deliver the same , sometimes better , results when used in conjunction with other software .
60 The outcome is quite unknown but Ceolred was unquestionably the invader and it should not be assumed that Ine won .
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