Example sentences of "can [adv] be assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 2 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 3 | Decisions may make reference to expectations and values concerning kin relationships that can only be assumed . |
| 4 | This seems fairly remarkable and it can only be assumed they are being kept awake by ghost stories and surveys about what people do in bed . |
| 5 | Furthermore it can not be assumed that all RDS information will be received accurately at all times . |
| 6 | Most important , given that a rogue GMO in the environment might continue to reproduce and spread , it can not be assumed that any system of regulation can adequately guard against an environmental catastrophe . |
| 7 | Besides , the causes of some 60% of birth defects have yet to be discovered : it can not be assumed that all of them travel down only the female line . |
| 8 | Since any comprehensive peace implies a reduction of influence by , and local dependency on , the superpowers , it can not be assumed that either superpower has a strong interest in a genuine peace , unless it is able to derive greater advantage from peace than it can from continued conflict . |
| 9 | It is rather that the whole point of a national curriculum will be lost if it can not be assumed that children at 11 will be ready for whatever is the generally agreed content of the first year at secondary school . |
| 10 | It can not be assumed that women over 65 would have had an adequate screening history and therefore can be forgotten , or that there is no point in regular follow-up of older patients . |
| 11 | Victim 's interpretations and memories indicate that victim studies can not be assumed to accurately reflect the ‘ real ’ extent of crime ; and the search for more reliable and direct indicators has included the development of self-report studies . |
| 12 | But truthfulness can not be assumed in every instance . |
| 13 | The understanding and support of personnel can not be assumed . |
| 14 | Indeed , now that growth in energy demand can not be assumed , there is the further issue that each new nuclear station directly reduces coal demand . |
| 15 | The use made of resources allocated is as important as the extent of the original allocation : it can not be assumed that budgeting money or designating a staff member as training officer , will ensure more than nominal training unless there is more than nominal commitment to the concept that systematic training should be integral to library management . |
| 16 | However , it is worth emphasising that the stages and the measures on which they are based are derived from a grammatical description and that , in the case of children with language difficulties , it can not be assumed that structurally based measures are predictive of functional skills ( Blank et al . |
| 17 | If a person intends doing someone harm , it can not be assumed that s/he displays a disdain towards humanity , although it is clearly directed towards the particular intended victim . |
| 18 | For those who love labels , then , modern British literature in that aspect might conveniently be called Aristophanic — provided , that is , it is well understood that its novelists and playwrights can not be assumed to have taken any attentive interest in ancient Greek comedy , and that coincidence is all it is . |
| 19 | Economic historians , in contrast to economists , are wholly concerned with the explanation of events in the real world over real time and in which irrationality and inconsistency , arising from imperfect knowledge or blind prejudice , are frequently dominant elements which can not be assumed away by means of such abstractions as ceteris paribus ( other things being equal ) and rational time . |
| 20 | Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance . |
| 21 | Sexuality may be a component in stratification by gender but it can not be assumed a priori by a process of projection in which the male sociologist , himself accustomed to thinking of women in these terms , imposes his own proclivities and preoccupations on the data he is analysing . |
| 22 | A common approach can not be assumed : most district and regional managers have spent their careers in the acute sector , and have little understanding of the interlocking network of roles , relationships , and agencies that constitute primary care . |
| 23 | It can not be assumed , however , that such organisational interests necessarily serve particular external interests … . |
| 24 | It can not be assumed , either by the sociologist or by anyone else , that particular policy measures are in any way neutral instruments which are somehow divinely ‘ right ’ for the particular society concerned . |
| 25 | But even if that is held to be culpable ignorance , it can not be assumed that if the voters did know of those plans or intentions they approved of them . |
| 26 | Good rapport can not be assumed ; it has to be cultivated and regularly tended . |
| 27 | It can not be assumed at the outset that all elements are the product of similar processes of objectification . |
| 28 | It can not be assumed that in all cultures and historical epochs the expression of disparaging remarks about other peoples creates a bad impression . |
| 29 | That this can not be assumed of language , which appears to serve just such a purpose , has been illustrated very clearly by the linguist Lehrer in an analysis of the language used in the description of wines . |
| 30 | Although the artefact may stand for a particular form of production , it can not be assumed that it will do so , or that the divisions which appear as significant from one perspective upon modern society will necessarily emerge as the major dimensions of differentiation in the object world . |