Example sentences of "[be] assume [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be assumed for present purposes that society 's wealth is maximised when production takes place at the lowest possible cost , thus avoiding the waste of scarce resources ( the goal of ‘ productive efficiency ’ is satisfied ) , and goods and services are produced in the quantities and are of the quality demanded by consumers ( the goal of ‘ allocative efficiency ’ is satisfied ) . |
| 2 | I have followed it through closely because it shows the kind of diplomacy which , though no comparable evidence survives , has to be assumed for subsequent relations between Charles and his brothers ( and later his nephews ) throughout his reign . |
| 3 | Due to the ‘ Fiduciary ’ ( trusting ) nature of the relationship , honesty and integrity is to be assumed on both sides . |
| 4 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 5 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |
| 6 | If the matrimonial home is already subject to a mortgage then the requirements of the mortgagees will have to be ascertained prior to a conveyance or transfer and if , although the house is to remain in joint names , liability for the mortgage payments is to be assumed by one party , an indemnity to the other party will have to be included in the declaration of trust ( see Precedent 54 ) . |
| 7 | In any case , for him 7,500,000 votes was sufficient legitimacy , and it could , after all , be assumed by those of a religious turn of mind that God had already blessed his enterprise — could he have succeeded otherwise ? |
| 8 | One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced . |
| 9 | Although it could be assumed by some that this is a development towards a more specialized and fragmented approach it may alternatively be a foundation for a more unified approach and one which accommodates the necessity to combine understanding at the microphysiology and biochemistry ( realist ? ) level with that at the biome level which had traditionally been approached more in functional terms . |
| 10 | The second is the traditional binary distinction between ‘ sound-change proper ’ and ‘ borrowing ’ : this distinction , or something similar to it , still seems to be assumed in many orthodox accounts . |
| 11 | The Education Act ( Scotland ) , making education compulsory for children from five to thirteen , had only just been passed in 1872 , and the capacity to read complicated copy could by no means be assumed in all girls ( or indeed boys ) even from " respectable artisans " " families , as is illustrated by the remarks of Mr McCrie , the owner of a paper factory , reported in the Edinburgh Daily Review in January 1873 . |
| 12 | The representations which come from members of the public and others can not therefore be assumed in all cases to embody the approach which would be given were a a full understanding of the previous and proposed situations in the mind of those who made that proposal . |
| 13 | The difficulty is , of course , that no-one knows whether an action is to be taken under the Optional Procedure until the Summons is served and it must , therefore , be assumed in all claims that there is a possibility that the Optional Procedure will be issued . |
| 14 | It had been a major error of judgement on the part of Lenin and the Bolshevik leadership , disregarding Lenin 's earlier warnings that it could not be assumed in any country that class issues would automatically supersede national ones . |
| 15 | It will be assumed in this book that a ( relatively ) closed set of lexical units is stored in the mental lexicon , together with rules or principles of some kind which permit the production of a possibly unlimited number of new ( i.e. not specifically stored ) units . |
| 16 | ( It will be assumed in this example that the S&P500 index covers only large shares quoted on the NYSE , although in actuality the S&P500 index includes some over-the-counter shares . ) |