Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] is assumed " in BNC.

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1 Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues .
2 The new formula is very complicated , but is based on a notional income figure for each authority — the grant-related poundage ( GRP ) — which it is assumed will be raised by rates or community charge .
3 But most readers of this book will have grown up in a society in which the major comparable distinction is between kin and non-kin , and in which it is assumed , or even insisted upon , that kin relationships ought not to enter into the non-kin sphere at all .
4 In other words one of the traditional defences of private property which states that an optimal allocation of resources results from owners ( who it is assumed control their property ) pursuing their own self-interest could be invoked to justify insisting that the company was run in the interests of the shareholders alone .
5 But in the classroom , the roles are often reversed : the person who asks the questions is the one who is assumed to be more knowledgeable .
6 That is what she is assumed to want , and that is her innate nature and hence it should be so .
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