Example sentences of "been assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been assumed that the eggs are contaminated too but the evidence is weak , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Instead it has been assumed that Eurotunnel 's fares will always be the same as those of the ferry services . |
| 3 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 4 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 5 | In the general election of 1970 there had , for instance , been no discussion of the settlement issue ; it had been assumed that ujamaa would continue to be a voluntary movement . |
| 6 | It has been assumed that there were two reasons why Mrs Thatcher decided to leave these shores . |
| 7 | In much of the discussion it has been assumed that it is a parent who seeks the information . |
| 8 | It has been assumed that the superpowers acting in unison can bring sufficient pressure to bear on their respective clients to enable peace negotiations . |
| 9 | It had always , I think , been assumed that I might try to get to Oxford , and history ( by an equally mysterious process ) became the subject of my choice . |
| 10 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 11 | An initial surface temperature of 10° C has been assumed in all cases . |
| 12 | It has traditionally been assumed that a gradual decrease in intensity of Hercynian folding has resulted in the stratigraphic relationships observed within the late Carboniferous . |
| 13 | As well as the traditional role of arranging for teachers to spend time in business other responsibilities have been assumed by the teacher placement organiser . |
| 14 | In the past , it has been assumed that nurses have already developed these skills when leaving school , or that they are acquired whilst providing patient care . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage — the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal . |
| 17 | Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have at last tracked down the last of the ‘ releasing factors ’ secreted by cells in the hypothalamus that have long been assumed to regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland ( Trends in Neurosciences . |
| 18 | Remember also that the ‘ Great ’ C major Symphony was not composed , as had been assumed , in 1828 , and that most of the writing was contemporary with the earlier D major Sonata , whose textures are so unmistakably orchestral in outline . |
| 19 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 20 | It had been assumed that , because the journey would only take a few hours , it was better to be in the open air than in the dark and unventilated cargo holds . |
| 21 | Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same , regardless of where they came from . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It has consistently been assumed that Parliament can abolish the House of Lords , though in order to do so , a Bill to this effect would have to be passed . |
| 24 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 25 | Prior to that , it had been assumed on all sides that the passing of Budget resolutions conferred sufficient interim authority , but in 1913 , in Bowles v Bank of England [ 1913 ] 1 Ch 57 , the courts decided that this was not the case and the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1913 resulted . |
| 26 | Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement . |
| 27 | It had always been assumed that Gooch wanted to spend time with his family before the new home season begins in April . |
| 28 | It has been assumed , for example , that the units of language analysis that figure in models of linguistic description are necessarily valid as units of language for pedagogic purposes . |
| 29 | But of course the writer 's assumptions may be mistaken : the reader may know more or less than has been assumed , in which case the negotiation will falter . |
| 30 | Derecognition , a word that is new to me and perhaps also to the English language , can be achieved only if the amount of benefit and risk retained by the seller ( not always the originator as seems to have been assumed ) is insignificant or immaterial ( on a case by case basis ) . |