Example sentences of "[adv] assumed to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this explanation is not sufficient to explain the phenomenon : there is a definite difference between , shall we say , an amoeba and a crystal , yet the crystal grows and ( in a very limited sense ) reproduces — two activities that are generally assumed to be characteristic of living material . |
| 2 | Controlled processes are generally assumed to be voluntary , flexible and capacity limited while automatic ones are highly efficient , unavoidable , resistant to modification , not subject to capacity limitations and able to occur without awareness ( LaBerge , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings . |
| 4 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 5 | The answer to that of course is ‘ no ’ ; because honour , pride and ego are always assumed to be male . |
| 6 | Ancestral origins from different geographical regions , however , are still assumed to be important in understanding pupil needs . |
| 7 | The dismissal of an HIV-infected employee ( or one erroneously assumed to be HIV-infected ) because co-workers feared transmission of the virus should be remediable . |
| 8 | Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear . |
| 9 | Investment expenditure I is also assumed to be exogenous in our model , with factors such as business confidence and the expectations of entrepreneurs being considered more important determinants of the level of investment than the current level of income . |
| 10 | Group One is now assumed to be obsolete . |
| 11 | The Newsons suggest these associations stand out to such an extent that they ‘ can be fairly assumed to be causative ’ . |
| 12 | The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory . |
| 13 | They were never importunate , never servile ; they never tried to lure Europeans into the kind of patron-client relationship which is often assumed to be vital to the functioning of the colonial psyche but which many Englishmen in fact found more annoying than gratifying . |
| 14 | However , a separate proposal was made by Easterbrook ( 1959 ) which describes an underlying mechanism which is often assumed to be responsible for both relationships . |
| 15 | In spite of its rarity in oral language , it is widely assumed to be easy to read , and hence is freely introduced into children 's fiction and other early reading materials . |
| 16 | In both cases , the objection is simply assumed to be valid , without proof , and before the evidence has even been considered . |
| 17 | Variants of binary variables ( which are implicitly assumed to be discrete ) are most easily handled as percentages ; table 5.1 for example lists zero realizations of ( h ) as a percentage of the total number of occurrences of both variants . |
| 18 | The ‘ defending ’ firm 's use of any legal ploy , including ‘ poison pills ’ designed to make the acquisition indigestible , is cheerfully assumed to be fair . |
| 19 | ( During the late nineteenth century , single pregnant women were sometimes assumed to be insane and were confined to the workhouse under the 1890 Lunacy Act . ) |
| 20 | This same point about the divisibility of roles which are ordinarily assumed to be interchangeable is further exemplified by my second example which is another piece of classic ethnography . |
| 21 | Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion . |
| 22 | Shah was setting in motion a chain of events which would lead to the bitter Wapping strike , when Murdoch took on the print unions — previously assumed to be invincible — and won . |
| 23 | The representative insider now fears that his job , which he had previously assumed to be safe , might now be in jeopardy . |
| 24 | Hamlets and farmsteads within the parishes of these villages were generally not documented before the twelfth or thirteenth centuries and were therefore assumed to be secondary or daughter settlements created as the population expanded , more land was cleared and farmed , and new settlements were needed . |