Example sentences of "[is] usually assume " in BNC.

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1 The derivation of the birds from a reptilian ( possibly dinosaur ) ancestor is certain , and because the earliest fossil bird , Archaeopteryx , is Jurassic in age , it is usually assumed that the split from the reptiles occurred in the earlier part of the period .
2 It is usually assumed ( see e.g. LoLordo and Ross 1987 ; Ross and LoLordo 1987 ) that such explicit training is necessary for a stimulus to acquire modulatory , occasion-setting properties ( but see also Bonardi ( 1989 , 1991 ) ) .
3 So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer .
4 Loss of the nuptial pads is usually assumed to be a consequence of mating on land because , in other frogs and toads , their function appears to be to help the male to grip onto the female 's slippery back while mating in water .
5 It is usually assumed that this is a deficiency in the enzymes ( see p 18 ) that detoxify foreign chemicals .
6 It is usually assumed that the aim of group management is to maximise group profit .
7 For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways .
8 Since Bentham 's position is usually assumed to be rigorist , it is worth pointing out that his main formulations , such as we have described above , seem to be non-rigorist .
9 It is usually assumed that although the ever-increasing indebtedness of the USA can not continue indefinitely , the elimination of the imbalance should not be brought about by sudden and severe adjustment .
10 Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety .
11 It is usually assumed that the ineffable in art is beyond the province of the professional academic scholar .
12 It is usually assumed that teachers and heads are held to account but whether they are accountable to resource providers ( ratepayers , taxpayers , policy makers , administrators ) , customers ( pupils , parents , employers ) , or their professional colleagues , is ill-defined .
13 These scholars , with their narrow reliance on sometimes incomplete statistics and a hypothetical input for ‘ social saving ’ , argue that the railways were much less important than is usually assumed , because if they had not existed , something else would have emerged to take their place .
14 When the rear subdivision is absent , it is usually assumed , on very little evidence , that an upper storey acted as the domestic residence or , alternatively , as storage space .
15 Similarly the south gate is usually assumed to be at the end of Southgate Street where an internal street points in the direction of Boley Hill ; the existence of a cemetery in this region outside the walls would support this assumption .
16 When these figures show a substantial increase , it is usually assumed that crime , in particular violent crime , has risen dramatically , but , particularly in recent years , other factors have influenced those statistics .
17 Edward IV 's financial legacy was not as healthy as is usually assumed and the administration seems to have found itself juggling income and expenditure with more than usual anxiety .
18 The missing actor is usually assumed to be the writer .
19 By then Harald is usually assumed to have been dead .
20 This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 .
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