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

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1 In spite of its rarity in oral language , it is widely assumed to be easy to read , and hence is freely introduced into children 's fiction and other early reading materials .
2 Investment expenditure I is also assumed to be exogenous in our model , with factors such as business confidence and the expectations of entrepreneurs being considered more important determinants of the level of investment than the current level of income .
3 Group One is now assumed to be obsolete .
4 The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory .
5 However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships .
6 They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying .
7 The ‘ defending ’ firm 's use of any legal ploy , including ‘ poison pills ’ designed to make the acquisition indigestible , is cheerfully assumed to be fair .
8 In both cases , the objection is simply assumed to be valid , without proof , and before the evidence has even been considered .
9 Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion .
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