Example sentences of "is assumed to be " in BNC.

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1 In Romantic-Crocean terms , the experience is assumed to be both unique and ineffable , to be undergone in a form of negative capability , without , in Keats 's words , any irritable reaching after fact and reason .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The demonstrators against the war in the streets of the capital are using the weapon of Islamic solidarity to have a go at the western powers , and some are indirectly critical of Mr Suharto , who is assumed to be the West 's friend .
5 The cone of vision is assumed to be right regular .
6 This permits people to be punished for crimes that are assumed to have taken place , and of which the suspect is assumed to be guilty , without any formalities of proof , evidence or charges .
7 The interest of subjecting one 's society and one 's life to such principles of justice is assumed to be everyone 's highest interest .
8 It is assumed to be adversarial , whether the couple feel adversarial or not , whether or not they have specifically agreed that they want to be sensibly amicable .
9 The assumptions lying behind such targeted programmes are that the ‘ problem ’ is a bounded one , concerned with ‘ pockets of poverty or deprivation ’ , restricted areas of decay , which can be remedied through relatively limited expenditure and precise targeting of funds and activities to ‘ special ’ , different , difficult problems , limited problems which remain to be rooted out , while the rest of the system is assumed to be functioning well and on course for prosperity and harmony .
10 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 .
11 Each input data source is assumed to be characterized by an error model that represents reasonable estimates of the levels and nature of the data uncertainty thought to be present .
12 A recent increase in reports is assumed to be connected with the re-establishment of a British breeding population .
13 The rate of surplus-value , s/v , is assumed to be 100 per cent , or 1 , in both departments .
14 Given that the original model is assumed to be both closed and in equilibrium , there is no surplus constant capital to draw upon .
15 None of the ‘ training officer ’ group specifically mentioned this , although formal Chief Executive/Local Authority approval is assumed to be required in all cases .
16 The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas .
17 The money supply ( MS ) is also exogenous — it is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and does not respond to changes in r or Y.
18 The supply of money is assumed to be under the control of the monetary authorities and is not influenced by changes in national income or in interest rates .
19 Sex is assumed to be the property of a ‘ physical elite ’ : our sexual possibilities are significantly affected by our appearance .
20 As Professor Chapman observes , high status nursing can be seen as a route to social mobility ; the more closely the nurse works with a doctor as a member of the team , the more prestigious the job is assumed to be .
21 Much of Western psychotherapy draws , in various forms , on the catharsis model , whereby it is held as necessary for emotional health to come to terms with the repressed anger that is assumed to be inside the individual , and techniques are developed to make the individual confront these in a dramatic form .
22 The operator is assumed to be reacting to a situation in a control room , containing a great variety of dials , charts , and computer driven displays together with the controls needed to take action in any part of the system .
23 This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly .
24 The liability of each person is assumed to be determined by the independent contribution of a major locus ( g ) ( a locus that causes a displacement of more than one phenotypic standard deviation between normal and abnormal genotypes on the liability scale ) ; a multifactorial component ( c ) , attributable in theory to a large number of genetic or environmental influences , or both , acting additively and transmitted from parents to their children ; and a random , non-transmitted environmental factor ( e ) .
25 The absence of Digital Equipment Corp , with IBM and Hewlett a founder-sponsor of the Open Software Foundation , is assumed to be because DEC is putting most of its eggs in-to the Microsoft NT basket these days .
26 Growth of sex i is assumed to be linear so that , where K i is the growth rate .
27 The density of the intrusions is assumed to be 2,800kgm -3 , the same as the surrounding material .
28 The airflow over the tail is assumed to be a steady uniform flow comprising the vector sum of the bird 's velocity and the induced velocity generated by the wings .
29 Flight is assumed to be either normal forward flapping flight , or gliding .
30 On the other hand , if Scottish political life in the counties is assumed to be explained by the suggestion that bribery was all in all , this would be a misleading impression , for many freeholders were less in the pocket of a political manager than the managers themselves would have liked to think , or conventional accounts would suggest .
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