Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was disappearing regularly into the bowels of the City to meet various moneypersons , all of whom were assumed to be faintly threatening male chauvinists . |
| 2 | Public opinion polls reveal a powerful popular distaste for divided political parties and an aversion to coalitions , both of which are assumed to detract from effective government . |
| 3 | The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex . |
| 4 | The forces which made your parents as they are , the making of what is assumed can take a whole lifetime to unravel . |
| 5 | Above it is assumed that the marginal costs of increasing output are themselves increasing . |
| 6 | That is to say , the ‘ relevant mental condition ’ which the critic/reader must recreate within himself is assumed also to be the mental condition of the author . |
| 7 | Perform beyond what is assumed to be their potential best . |
| 8 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |
| 9 | One may look not only at the rest of the section in which the word appears but at the statute as a whole , and even at earlier legislation dealing with the same subject-matter — for it is assumed that when Parliament passed an Act , it probably had the earlier legislation in mind , and probably intended to use words with the same meaning as before . |
| 10 | This assumption can be made explicit by making literal use of an " existence predicate " , and sometimes any residual doubts about what is assumed on a particular occasion can be resolved only by a repeated and emphatic use of such predicates ; but , as is clear from what has been said so far , the use of such predicates is not analogous to acts of property ascription , especially if " properties " are understood in the sense of " accidental properties " . |