Example sentences of "[am/are] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In this department , you 're assumed to be drunk until proven otherwise , ’ said Keith Little , head of Accident and Emergency . |
| 2 | If any further additions are made to the dos command line , they are assumed to refer to an ascii file to be loaded directly . |
| 3 | It has particularly focused on Renaissance literature and the struggles for dominance which are enacted in it , or are assumed to be . |
| 4 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 5 | Another , equally sinister , is the way in which most public meeting places and telephones are assumed to be bugged ; even the family is no longer a safe environment in which to talk . |
| 6 | In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous . |
| 7 | SIR — Just what thought-processes are assumed to make the floating voter more inclined to support party leaders whom he has seen flanked by what the newspapers call ‘ glitterati ’ — celebrities , that is , of stage , screen , pop concerts , running , jumping and playing ball games ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If Colinetta 's sense of propriety , generosity , and fairness , are assumed to typify , in Leapor 's view , the whole of rural society , then the question of a normative level in the poem is almost irrelevant since there is no difference between the descriptive and normative states of rural society . |
| 10 | Moreover , they are assumed to be committed to different conceptions of the good and they think that they are entitled to press their claims on one another to further their separate aims . |
| 11 | One might ask why the non-indigenous whites who ran private farms ( and thereby improperly ‘ unsettled ’ other natives ) are assumed to ‘ use ’ rather than ‘ destroy ’ all the valuable timber . |
| 12 | The implication is that some Upper Carboniferous rocks of the foreland are still in the oil window , and that even if fairly high regional palaeogeothermal gradients are assumed , the gas preservation limit is likely to be several kilometres deep where the high-volatile coals occur . |
| 13 | The Namurian , Millstone Grit sediments have not been penetrated in any well in the area but are assumed to be present on the basis of the stratigraphic relationships deduced from seismic data . |
| 14 | The solutions being considered here for colliding plane waves all have a pair of commuting Killing vectors that are assumed to exist globally . |
| 15 | Local politics are assumed in advance to be of a pluralist nature , and concerned with issues of consumption . |
| 16 | Mutual benefits and shared learning are assumed to emanate from partnerships , predicated perhaps on the too simple notion that ‘ two plus two can make five ’ . |
| 17 | In a number of theories of text comprehension , such mappings are assumed to be made ( potentially ) at a number of levels . |
| 18 | In this case , the position is equivalent to that of compulsory purchase , and the permissions in the Eighth Schedule are assumed to be available when assessing the compensation . |
| 19 | This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s . |
| 20 | Given that prices are assumed to remain fixed , their reaction to the building up of stocks in the short-run will be to cut back on output and lay off workers , thereby creating DD unemployment . |
| 21 | The advantages of unity over diversity , or collectivism over individualism , are assumed to be self-evident and the obvious totalitarian overtones are ignored . |
| 22 | We are assumed to be failed heterosexuals , feeding into the myth that the lesbian communities accommodate fat more easily than their straight equivalents . |
| 23 | It 's certainly true that drugs are assumed to have a special , morbid logic of their own , rather than to be aspecific case of general patterns of human behaviour . |
| 24 | All players are assumed to be steroid-free , suspension free and eligible . |
| 25 | But my purpose in dwelling on this theory is to demonstrate how ideas are spread by the action of persuasion on uncritical acquiescence and get converted into solutions , which are assumed to be valid everywhere , like American Express traveller 's cheques . |
| 26 | In short lesbians and gay men are assumed to influence young people over their sexuality , whilst heterosexuals assume themselves to be neutral . |
| 27 | They are assumed to have been quarried there , in situ , and not removed from the glacial Drift . |
| 28 | A TOTAL of one hundred Mark V Spitfires serialled in the BP/BR ranges that were flown to Abbotsinch and Renfrew follow , as per Spitfire — The History Morgan & Shacklady , Key Publishing 1987 and , as the dates coincide , are assumed to include those transported to the Mediterranean by the USS Wasp . |
| 29 | They therefore stress the coherence of the views and power of the controlling group ( usually ‘ the state ’ or ‘ capitalism ’ ) , and pay little attention to the responses of the group being controlled , in this case elderly people , who are assumed to have little if any room for manoeuvre . |
| 30 | As Townsend ( 1981 ) noted , retirement at pensionable age is now much more rigidly enforced , and ‘ old age pensioners ’ are assumed to have an economic-activity status very different from those of ‘ working age ’ , irrespective of their state of health or capacity for work . |