Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] be assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing should be missed out and nothing should be assumed or taken for granted . |
| 2 | Your salary is £8,250 exclusive of live-in benefits , which may be assumed to be equivalent to a further 20 per cent . |
| 3 | Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain . |
| 4 | The New Historicists ' 'reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history' would set up an exchange which might be assumed to be awkward . |
| 5 | Rationality is part of our greatness , but it also serves to keep us humble because rationality itself must be assumed by faith . |
| 6 | He bethought himself guiltily of Sergeant Crane , who might be assumed to be waiting to continue the conversation that Francesca 's call had interrupted , and padded down the corridor . |
| 7 | For every £250 ( or part of £250 ) over £3,000 you will be assumed to have an extra £1.00 per week income . |
| 8 | For example , if you have £4,200 savings you will be assumed to have an extra £5.00 per week income , even if you are not actually receiving any interest from your savings . |
| 9 | When a specific pathogenic organism is implicated , such as the gonococcus , there can be assumed a natural cause-and-effect , and the presence of pus-cells is easily explained . |
| 10 | From this position nothing would be assumed a priori about the meaning of our study texts ( how far they qualified as racist , for example ) until their actual conditions of existence had been exhaustively examined . |
| 11 | If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population . |
| 12 | If tension was so high in an area not stricken by famine , it may be assumed that as much or more violence occurred in regions like the Ukraine and Tambov guberniia , which were nearly as badly off as the Volga . |
| 13 | In a poll of Anglican Clergy undertaken in 1864 only 40% expressed the view that the damned would suffer everlasting torment ; it may be assumed that a poll of laity would have disclosed a substantially lower percentage.ii . |
| 14 | In any situation where someone has died , it may be assumed that more people are likely to be significantly affected by the death of that one individual than may seem apparent . |
| 15 | Given Richardson 's concern to fill out the second volume , it may be assumed that very few of Mary Leapor 's works escaped publication . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | While the number of programmes undertaken is not in itself an indicator of quality or effectiveness , it may be assumed that undertaking relatively little , or virtually no planned systematic training , is certain to be ineffective . |
| 18 | For anthropologists it may be assumed that this is an uncontroversial statement . |
| 19 | Our public houses vary in terms of individual design and construction , but the plans provided are typical of the two types of unit distinguished in the Preliminary Report , and it may be assumed that appropriate proposals will be suitable for other units falling within the same category . |
| 20 | On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores . |
| 21 | These characters are highly experienced , and it may be assumed that they can equip themselves with pretty much anything they want ( subject to GM approval ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | First of all , if support teachers always take individual needs as their starting point it may be assumed that any modifications to the curriculum for a particular child relate uniquely to that child 's difficulties . |
| 25 | It may be assumed that within the three miles the territorial sovereignty would be sufficient to cover any such legislation as the present . |
| 26 | From some authors it may be assumed that pluralism represents an especially naive set of propositions about how political power is perfectly , or nearly perfectly , distributed within Western liberal democracies . |
| 27 | Where reefs are notably wider than the average it may be assumed that there the corals were not killed off during the Pleistocene . |
| 28 | The meaning of the word ‘ immediate ’ is likely to give rise to dispute in the courts , but it may be assumed that if , for example , a man threatens a woman that unless she has sexual intercourse with him , he will violently assault her in the presence of her children when they return home the following day , this will not be rape under the Committee 's proposals . |
| 29 | The mental element with respect to unlawfulness remains to be determined , but it may be assumed after Morgan that it would be intention or recklessness . |
| 30 | It may be assumed that the manufacturer 's motive is his own advantage . |