Example sentences of "assume to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main point about this example was to show that social roles which speakers of English would ordinarily assume to be alternative titles for the same individual , e.g. , " father " , " husband " , " begetter of wife 's children " , are not only distinguishable but may be distributed in quite unexpected ways . |
| 2 | Can you identify features which you have assumed a receiver of your description will assume to be present by default ( i.e. features of the building which do not diverge from what you presume to be shared between your ‘ building schema ’ and a potential receiver 's ) ? |
| 3 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 4 | I made use of their terror for my own amusement , and raising my voice still more , I shouted at him whom I assumed to be present , lying invisible in some corner … |
| 5 | The integrated approach to learning in a business or community context may begin to challenge some of the notions of curriculum content assumed to be unproblematic . |
| 6 | Their assumption that this could be ignored , and the data assumed to be objective representations of crime and criminality , was to prove to be one of their greatest weaknesses , as we shall see in the next chapter . |
| 7 | This demand system can be derived by maximizing the following aggregate profits function Γ for farmers with respect to Q 1 and Q 2 : where the aggregate production function for farmers is defined as : It is important to note that , for simplicity , the aggregate production function is of quadratic form and assumed to be homothetic , no inputs other than the two forms of fertilizers are considered , and the farmers ' output prices have been normalized to one . |
| 8 | It is a standard result that the Hall resistance in a strong field is B/ne , where n is the two-dimensional density of mobile electrons , assumed to be free , independent particles . |
| 9 | Since the money wage rate is , by hypothesis , assumed to be constant at W , the real wage rate falls from in Figure 5.5(c) . |
| 10 | Land areas north of 65°N and south of 45°S are excluded from GNP and HDI analyses ( that is , assumed to be uninhabited ) ; temperature date also excludes land over 1,500 metres . |
| 11 | The final vision is of a world in which the concept of illness would remain but would not be fixed in firm categories assumed to be universal . |
| 12 | the allegations pleaded ( which the court was required to assume to be true for the purposes of an issue as to service out of the jurisdiction ) were as follows . |
| 13 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 14 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 15 | No amount of regulation or changes to the law will prevent the type of corporate failures which the public , however illogically , assume to be conclusive evidence of audit failures , and judging by the Government 's reluctance to relax the statutory audit requirement for small companies , there may , in any case , be less dissatisfaction with the quality of auditing than we are sometimes led to believe . |
| 16 | The four quarterly effects ( which we are assuming to be invariant during the time span of the data ) can now be estimated from the averages of corresponding quarters over these seven years . |
| 17 | Your salary is £8,250 exclusive of live-in benefits , which may be assumed to be equivalent to a further 20 per cent . |
| 18 | It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value . |
| 19 | If α f is assumed to be equivalent to , this value compares well with the average value of determined for 18 polymers covering a wide range of T g . |
| 20 | The uptake of 5-ASA must therefore be assumed to be equivalent to the production of Ac-ASA over time . |
| 21 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 22 | The answer to that of course is ‘ no ’ ; because honour , pride and ego are always assumed to be male . |
| 23 | In such models the policy ineffectiveness proposition no longer holds , even though expectations are assumed to be rational . |
| 24 | If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ? |
| 25 | It was , however , the advice of the law officers of the day , and it has been assumed to be correct ( inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953 ) , that upon failure of male heirs , primogeniture should apply as well to females . |
| 26 | in its statement of claim must be assumed to be correct . |
| 27 | In the more elementary systems that we are now considering , kinship , of a general sort , is assumed to be all-pervading but there is again a discrimination between the insiders and the outsiders , we " and they " . |
| 28 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 29 | Whether skilled or unskilled , the vast majority of fathers of brides in the sample were engaged in manual trades ( 110 of the 161 ) , and most of them could safely be assumed to be skilled workers . |
| 30 | Stylistic categories are more complex phenomena which are often difficult to define , but which are assumed to be describable in terms of linguistic categories , although they are not a necessary part of the description of a language . |