Example sentences of "may [be] assume that the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for .
2 It may be assumed that the manufacturer 's motive is his own advantage .
3 It may be assumed that the impulse of cruelty arises from the instinct for mastery and appears a period of sexual life at which the genitals have not yet taken over their later role .
4 On the vertical axis is plotted the recorded rate of increase of money wage rates , and it may be assumed that the rate of inflation can be closely associated with these rates of wage change because wages are usually the largest component of costs .
5 A reasonable starting point may be to assume that the process will vary for individuals and for different types of text .
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