Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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1 | He concluded that the planet 's habitability is under attack but its natural resilience is probably greater than is normally assumed , and that in the environmental field geographers have made contributions in environmental perception and hazard assessment and also in the area of unified physical and biogeographic research : |
2 | The prospering of Unionism had less to do with the war than is generally assumed , and it was more healthy in 1914 and less certain of prosperity in 1922 . |
3 | Employing this methodology , Nyman and Silberston , as already noted , find a significantly higher occurrence of ownership control than is generally assumed . |
4 | Perhaps there was a much larger population in the area than has previously been supposed , with more intensive or extensive use of the landscape by 2000 I–C than is generally assumed . |
5 | Furthermore , since at this time Islam was pursuing a policy of particular openness towards other religions , less of a barrier existed than is sometimes assumed . |
6 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
7 | A celebrated passage of Aristotle 's Politics ( 1313b38 ) proves less than is sometimes assumed . |
8 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
9 | Thus , the relationship of critical theory to postmodernism and poststructuralism is indeed a far more complex matter than is commonly assumed . |
10 | The first is that people are able to learn much more quickly than is commonly assumed . |
11 | London salaries were only 11 per cent above average , with executive salaries in Yorkshire , Humberside and the East Midlands 5 per cent below average , showing much less of a regional difference than is often assumed . |
12 | The costs of building refurbishment may be greater than is often assumed . |
13 | Another possible implication is that into the early years of the next century fewer old people will lack kin support or would be living alone than is often assumed . |
14 | The arrival of this ‘ adventitious ’ rural population goes back further than is often assumed , and is by no means a purely post-war phenomenon . |
15 | These scholars , with their narrow reliance on sometimes incomplete statistics and a hypothetical input for ‘ social saving ’ , argue that the railways were much less important than is usually assumed , because if they had not existed , something else would have emerged to take their place . |
16 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
17 | Briefly , the available evidence shows that the benefit they confer on the various socio-economic groups changes according to government policies and they do not always give greater benefits to those living in council accommodation , as is often assumed . |
18 | Founded in 1764 , the Club was not ( as is often assumed ) Johnson 's brain-child : Boswell 's Life makes it clear that the idea came from Joshua Reynolds ; and once a week they met at seven in the evening , in the Turk 's Head , a Soho hostelry . |
19 | by no means all farmers are as antipathetic to the conservationist case as is sometimes assumed , but eventually they must all make a living . |
20 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
21 | Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety . |
22 | This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 . |