Example sentences of "[noun] are assumed to [be] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the insiders ' skills are assumed to be firm specific , acquired over the years and difficult to replicate in the short to medium run .
2 ( d ) Overflow can not occur on multiplication if the values are assumed to be integral , but multiplication of two operands both of which are the maximum negative number causes overflow under the fractional convention .
3 Certain principles and values are assumed to be unchallengeable and therefore to be nurtured .
4 Standard bearers and musicians are assumed to be equipped with the same weapons as the rest of the unit and fight just like ordinary troopers ( see the rulebook for a full description ) .
5 Standard bearers and musicians are assumed to be equipped with the same weapons as the rest of the unit and fight just like ordinary troopers ( see the Warhammer rulebook for a full description ) .
6 Standard bearers and musicians are assumed to be equipped with the same weapons as the rest of the unit and fight just like ordinary troopers ( see the Warhammer rulebook for a full description ) .
7 With this in mind the genetics-supply industry has approached the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations at which all biological processes and products are assumed to be patentable .
8 From the individual 's point of view , bonds and equities are assumed to be perfect substitutes .
9 Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology .
10 In much of the literature , savings are assumed to be based on rules of thumb .
11 That is , descriptions of perception and action are assumed to be unproblematic which in fact are deeply puzzling .
12 Births in the first seven months of marriage are assumed to be pre-maritally conceived .
13 Because NMDA receptors are assumed to be located on dendritic spines , it is believed that spines may act to localize the Ca 2+ signal .
14 In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous .
15 Height and good posture are assumed to be ‘ good ’ signs for people motivated to succeed in work organizations .
16 In such models the policy ineffectiveness proposition no longer holds , even though expectations are assumed to be rational .
17 He contrasts the ‘ highly developed theory of market interaction ’ with the simplistic treatment of the public sector : ‘ the ‘ public choices ’ that define the constraints within which market behaviour is allowed to take place are assumed to be made externally or exogenously , presumably by others than those who participate in market transactions ’ ( Buchanan , 1972 , p. 11 ) .
18 The purposes are assumed to be the public good .
19 Consider the following simple model : Clones are assumed to be independently and randomly distributed along the genome , and to all have the same length , 1 , ( in suitable units ) .
20 The reason a bat is a particularly telling example for a philosopher , however , is that the experiences of an echolocating bat are assumed to be peculiarly alien and different from our own .
21 In this paper , individuals are assumed to be characterized by varying degrees of commitment to the trade union , and the union offers a form of private good to its members in addition to negotiating the collective good of higher wages .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment .
25 Purchases by customers are assumed to be a function of advertising and promotional expenditure , salesforce effort and commission , and retailer sales effort .
26 Both volume and the absolute value of the change in price are assumed to be a positive function of the amount of disagreement between traders .
27 This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s .
28 Note that , in the model , all profits are assumed to be distributed to households and not retained by the firms .
29 Decrements at high levels are assumed to be the result of the impairment to short memory .
30 Since leakages are assumed to be related to income , and injections are assumed exogenous , then variations in income equate total income and expenditure flows in the circular flow model .
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