Example sentences of "be [adv] assume that " in BNC.
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1 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
2 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
3 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
4 | As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 . |
5 | Recall that we are temporarily assuming that irreducibles and primes are one and the same thing in Z. |
6 | I am also assuming that you will be with us on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 June . |
7 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |
8 | In the basic Gaussian method just described , it has been tacitly assumed that all errors are equally likely . |
9 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
10 | It will be widely assumed that the cabinet fears it would be unable to control a judicial inquiry . |
11 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
12 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
13 | It can be easily assumed that because we know how computers work we therefore know how learning is programmed . |
14 | It should not be automatically assumed that they will . |
15 | In these circumstances , it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day . |
16 | If technology is linked only with science , then vast possibilities in traditional arts subjects will be wasted , and it will be increasingly assumed that modern well-equipped schools are for science , while arts schools struggle along in the doldrums , where neither teachers nor pupils will want to be . |
17 | It might be naively assumed that these variations in expenditure reflect the varying patterns of need for health care illustrated by the population . |
18 | Even with interests , it ought not to be casually assumed that all interests are automatically legitimate , or that compromises can and should be made to accommodate them . |
19 | This is most common in the case of overlapping when it can be falsely assumed that part of a continuous form is obscured from view . |
20 | It can be safely assumed that the overwhelming majority of Mambo Leo and Mwangaza readers were pro-TANU , in view of the size of the electoral victories in 1958 , when that party was supported by sixty-seven per cent of an electorate in which Asians and Europeans were disproportionately highly represented . |
21 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
22 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
23 | They were also admired for their military prowess , it being widely assumed that before the arrival of the British the Masai had been paramount among the tribes of East Africa ; they were ‘ aristocrats and formerly conquered east central Africa ’ . |
24 | As we explained in section 4.2 , the model we are considering assumes that prices in each market move each period to equate supply and demand in each market . |
25 | It is widely assumed that Elders will not bother to hold on to any Scottish shares and its 23.7 per cent stake will be acquired and used as the springboard for a bid . |
26 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
27 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
28 | These days , it is widely assumed that monitoring of firms by close , caring banks is a better way to run things than the arms-length institutional ownership of America and Britain . |
29 | It is widely assumed that ‘ real ’ country people are in favour of development as a source of new jobs and housing while the rich commuter is only concerned to protect his equity and a style of living which has never been available to the locals . |
30 | It is widely assumed that the more efficiently a stock market functions the better off everyone is . |