Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |
| 2 | Greek tragedy is generally assumed to have had an original connection with Dionysus . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that single-parent families , people on their own , or unrelated people living together constitute 32 per cent of all households ( Central Statistical Office , 1979 , p. 44 ) , the household is generally assumed to be the nuclear family . |
| 4 | So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer . |
| 5 | By then Harald is usually assumed to have been dead . |
| 6 | The missing actor is usually assumed to be the writer . |
| 7 | The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory . |
| 8 | No complete census of dolphins has ever been carried out in India , although the total population is generally assumed to be between 4000 and 5000 . |
| 9 | Knowledge is also assumed in the functional views of language described in 3 . |
| 10 | Recent studies on the context dependence of hydrogen bond free energies in RNA hairpins , revealed by selective base substitutions , conclude that the ribose hydroxyl contributes relatively little to RNA stability ( ∼zero at 37°C ) [ 19 ] , and consequently the free energy contribution to the stability of a single stranded RNA structure from hydrogen bonds is also assumed to be approximately zero ( contrast base stacking interactions ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | That the ethics of prevention trials is often a resource driven argument is tacitly assumed but rarely explicitly stated . |
| 13 | Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because , in other frogs and toads , their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female 's slippery back while mating in water . |
| 14 | Uniqueness is typically assumed , but is by no means guaranteed , as we have seen in Lecture 6 . |
| 15 | Similarly the south gate is usually assumed to be at the end of Southgate Street where an internal street points in the direction of Boley Hill ; the existence of a cemetery in this region outside the walls would support this assumption . |
| 16 | The dip of this master detachment fault at the time of active deformation is then assumed to coincide with its current dip of 10° northeastwards . |
| 17 | Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty . |
| 18 | Nor can the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East claim that it would come from growth , because growth is already assumed in our plans . |
| 19 | A shipowner whose liability is automatically assumed up to a certain level , and strictly limited above that , will have less incentive to avoid a costly spill . |
| 20 | Since Bentham 's position is usually assumed to be rigorist , it is worth pointing out that his main formulations , such as we have described above , seem to be non-rigorist . |
| 21 | We shall now take a ferromagnetic material that has a very narrow hysteresis loop so that we can assume with good approximation a unique ( though of course nonlinear ) relationship between B and H. The material is again assumed to be of a toroidal shape but it is now excited by a current I flowing in a coil of N turns ( Fig. 3.13(a) ) . |
| 22 | ‘ Is it not remarkable , ’ she said , her pretty brows arched in bewilderment , ‘ that an organisation set up in support of the family is thereby assumed to be against the welfare state ? |
| 23 | Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion . |
| 24 | Communicative dynamism is therefore assumed to be achieved by the interplay of these three factors : linear modification ( i.e. gradation of position , syntax ) , semantic structure , and context . |
| 25 | ‘ Unpolluted ’ precipitation is commonly assumed to have a pH value of 5.6 ( or 5.65 ) , although in reality the pH of precipitation in even the most remote areas of the world is typically lower than this , averaging around 5.0 . |
| 26 | In both cases , the objection is simply assumed to be valid , without proof , and before the evidence has even been considered . |