Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] be assume " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creation of these two kingdoms seems quite anomalous at the earlier conquest phase , as has hitherto been assumed . |
| 2 | It has long been assumed that the origins of many adult disorders lie somewhere in childhood or earlier events . |
| 3 | But suppose now we require that adequate grammatical descriptions include specifications of the meaning of every word in a language , and such a requirement has normally been assumed , then we find words whose meaning-specifications can only be given by reference to contexts of usage . |
| 4 | In this work , rather than being reduced to utility or competitive status display , goods are examined in terms of their expressive and symbolic function , and the central thesis with respect to this is one which has largely been assumed in the present work . |
| 5 | This has generally been assumed to have been the result of competition from the adaptively superior North American mammals , but Marshall ( 1981 ) has recently argued that at least some of the extinction was caused by changes in the physical environment . |
| 6 | Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers . |
| 7 | In the past it has generally been assumed either that spending patterns will change incrementally from year to year or be based on some more or less rational overview of budgets . |
| 8 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 9 | It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage — the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal . |
| 10 | Capping entitlements has never been popular , mainly because it has always been assumed that social-security recipients ( old-age pensioners ) would be hardest hit . |
| 11 | Though its importance has always been assumed , culture should now feature more strongly and be studied more vigorously . |
| 12 | A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’ |
| 13 | In the past it has always been assumed that the wall followed the same line as its medieval successor . |
| 14 | Elean : It has always been assumed , even by some feminists and left-wing individuals , that monogamy equals equality of women and polygamy equals oppression of women . |
| 15 | ’ We have no policy on single-sex swimming , as it has never been an issue before and it has always been assumed that all children would swim together . ’ |
| 16 | Here the mother is interpreting the child 's earliest noises as turns , a phenomenon which has led some researchers to wonder whether the turn-taking mechanisms of conversation , and ability to recognize the kind of turn that is in use , might be the initial framework into which the child gradually fills the details of the language , working top-down , from the largest structures to the smallest , as well as or perhaps instead of bottom-up , as has usually been assumed . |
| 17 | It has traditionally been assumed that a gradual decrease in intensity of Hercynian folding has resulted in the stratigraphic relationships observed within the late Carboniferous . |
| 18 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 19 | Schüssler Fiorenza has shown in an impressive way in In Memory of Her that women 's contribution to the life of the church was not so marginal as has often been assumed . |
| 20 | It has often been assumed that these figures were simply invented , and are evidence that the Bible is historically unreliable . |
| 21 | Parental divorce has often been assumed to have deleterious effects on children . |
| 22 | It has typically been assumed that firms act perfectly competitively and that all markets clear . |
| 23 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 24 | It has consistently been assumed that Parliament can abolish the House of Lords , though in order to do so , a Bill to this effect would have to be passed . |