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

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1 At low levels of arousal it is assumed that attention is divided among many cues so there will potentially be some memory for all cues .
2 As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years .
3 Thus for each country one could use Lucas 's measure of unanticipated aggregate demand to estimate the following OLS regression based on equation(6.3) : where is a coefficient , and is a random error which is assumed to be serially uncorrelated with zero mean .
4 As a public relations consultant it is assumed you can write and speak with skill and authority .
5 In the special theory of relativity it is assumed that a single inertial frame can be applied to the whole Universe , but at the cost of neglecting acceleration !
6 Beholden to an anatomically derived , heterosexually structured , and all-embracing dualism , such theories could only conceive of homosexuality as a disavowal of that very difference which is assumed to be fundamental to social , psychic , and sexual organization .
7 NOTE : In this article it is assumed that your machine has a hard disk called C : and MS-DOS is stored in a directory C : \DOS .
8 Equations ( 5.1 ) and ( 5.2 ) have already been explained : t is the aggregate demand shock which is assumed to follow the ‘ random walk ’ process shown in equation ( 5.3 ) , that is it equals its value in the previous period plus t , a serially uncorrelated random error with zero mean and constant variance .
9 This project has three objectives : to investigate how accurately parents and their adolescent children can predict each other 's thinking over complex moral and social problems ; to assess whether the degree of such accuracy is related to the nature and extent of parent-adolescent conflicts , and to test whether an individual at one level of cognitive development can describe the view of another person who is assumed to be at a higher level .
10 In economic models of bureaucratic behaviour it is assumed that economic incentives and constraints are what count , rather than the moral or intellectual qualities of public servants ( Niskanen 1973 ) .
11 If you die leaving £347,000 to your wife it is assumed that she still has it when she dies , so £200,000 is taxable then .
12 The responsible commitment which is assumed in a small way in all personal knowledge comes into its own in the Christian faith .
13 In this definition , and throughout Parsons ' analysis , ‘ power ’ is identified with ‘ legitimate authority ’ , and this authority itself is assumed to arise from some kind of pervasive agreement upon the collective purposes of society as a whole .
14 We therefore have : 1 ) the malady if it is a malady ; at any rate it is assumed to be a malady by the proponents of incomes policy ; 2 ) a theoretical cause of the malady , which is not disputed ; 3 ) the practical demonstration that this cause has been in operation ; and 4 ) the psychological explanation why that cause is desired , fomented and sustained by Governments .
15 We should also note that it is based on certain assumptions , for example it is assumed that those who have some reason to form a pressure group will , in an open society , do so , and that the degree of governmental response will depend on the degree of pressure the group is able to exert , and that this is directly related to the group 's importance to the community .
16 In arguing for the relevance of the notion of autonomy in private life , she brings into question the demarcation point between private and public life which is assumed by most of the philosophical tradition she is working in .
17 For simplicity it is assumed that tastes and income are identical between residents , and therefore , once again , this is a ‘ representative individual ’ for the locality .
18 Within the cone of vision it is assumed that all lines and planes parallel to the picture plane are true to scale .
19 For the present it is assumed that the N ( No ) option is selected .
20 In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law .
21 Although there is only a single Doom Diver model it is assumed that there is an infinite supply of would-be Doom Divers ready and waiting to be thrown into the air .
22 In Green and Porter 's model it is assumed that a firm 's choice of output can not be observed by another firm , and the sum of all outputs determines market price according to a demand function which is subject to unobservable random shocks .
23 Instead of assuming that their development progresses along a smooth and unproblematic path it is assumed that there have to be mechanisms and policies to overcome constantly recurring disequilibria and attempts to gain some sort of balance ( for example , between agriculture and industry ; between the amounts available for consumption and for investment in new capital ; between money and financial capital on one hand and production on the other ; and , especially , between capital and labour ) .
24 On an equilibrium path it is assumed that both capital and labour are fully employed .
25 In the former illustration it is assumed that the replacement vehicles will simply provide a similar service to those vehicles presently operated .
26 As Eyre ( 1987 ) reports , there is considerable variation of opinion relating to rates of deforestation ; FAO ( 1985 ) , for example , quote a figure of 3.0 per cent per year which is assumed to be due to commercial logging .
27 For the avoidance of doubt it is assumed that a church building presently exists on land owned by the church and that adjacent to that site is land that could be developed .
28 ( 8.19 ) is the value in period n of the dividend income to infinity which is assumed to grow at the ‘ normal ’ rate , ( ) , discounted back to the present .
29 The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance .
30 So that every American president is a sort of half breed , a cross between Daniel Boone and Jesus Christ and that however corrupt and venal a politician he might have been before , once he assumes the White House it is assumed that he changes .
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