Example sentences of "[be] assumed that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now widely recognized that all such attempts have failed , yet it continues to be assumed that the rational agent has somehow pulled himself up by his bootstraps out of reach of his own spontaneity . |
| 2 | It can therefore be assumed that the Soviet commanders are fully aware of the situation , if not totally in control of it . |
| 3 | As the centuries passed and the second coming receded into the remote future , it came more and more to be assumed that the final verdict could be pre-empted . |
| 4 | Nor should it be assumed that the young teachers of 30 years ago were all aspiring members of the working class . |
| 5 | However , it can be assumed that the political difficulties experienced within China over recent years continue to act as a barrier to any possible growth . |
| 6 | It is to be assumed that the general circumstances of the market remain unchanged throughout this period ; that there is , for instance , no change in fashion or taste , no new substitute which might affect the demand , no new invention to disturb the supply . |
| 7 | It should not be assumed that the royal and princely feuds of this period necessarily brought the Northumbrian kingdom into serious governmental disarray . |
| 8 | In Rogers v. Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd. ( 1986 ) the Court of Appeal said it could not be assumed that the statutory definition of merchantable quality ( which dates from 1973 ) was merely a codification of earlier judicial pronouncements upon the meaning of merchantable quality ; pre-1973 cases therefore should not be relied upon . |
| 9 | Similarly , it should not be assumed that the discovered attitude is necessarily any ‘ truer ’ than the preceding one , rather as if an unconscious motivation had been dragged from the gloom of the id into the bright light of the ego . |
| 10 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 11 | Why , then , should it be assumed that the Holy Spirit was particularly active in professors ? |
| 12 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 13 | Moreover , it has been assumed that the mean and variance of v is not affected , but this may not be the right normalization . |
| 14 | In all of this it has been assumed that the general rule applies and that X , not being the owner could not confer ownership on Y who in turn could not confer ownership on Z. It now remains to examine those exceptional situations where the original owner may lose his ownership , i.e. where title may be conferred by someone who himself has no title . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But as long as the A level system remains , pupils at school will be required severely to limit their choice of subjects , it being assumed that the only way to ensure ‘ standards of excellence , is to go more and more deeply into an ever narrower range of subjects . |
| 17 | Indeed , perceptual constancies are only a puzzle if it is assumed that the visual system acts like a camera . |
| 18 | None is stated in the sub-section , but it is assumed that the accused must intend to use the article in the course of or in connection with the burglary , theft or cheat , and he must know that he has the article with him . |
| 19 | It is assumed that the shallow water Lower Carboniferous carbonates uncomformably overlie a platform of these older rocks , which locally are intersected by the pre-Permian surface because of thrusting or uplift and erosion . |
| 20 | It is assumed that the personal and social significance of transport in general and driving in particular develops rapidly between the ages of 13 and 19 , and that the knowledge , attitudes and judgements relating to driving that develop during these years will have an important bearing on how young drivers behave on the road . |
| 21 | Although expressed simply , it is assumed that the necessary liaison takes place between the sub-systems of the model on matters of common interest . |
| 22 | In both , it is assumed that the criminal law can and should be used to protect or to reinforce moral principles . |
| 23 | Above it is assumed that the marginal costs of increasing output are themselves increasing . |
| 24 | It is governed by the difference equations ( from ( 9–13 ) , ( 9–14 ) and ( 9–15 ) ) , It is assumed that the random terms , and , are independent across individuals , and that the population is sufficiently large that we can replace sample moments by the corresponding population moments , in this way moving from a stochastic to a distributional model . |
| 25 | In this approach , it is assumed that the initial conditions are determined by the functions and which represents the wave in region II as it reaches the boundary , and by which represents the wave in region III as it reaches the boundary . |
| 26 | Unless it is assumed that the original stream had a meander belt of varying width , we must conclude that the meanders have not only been incised but also more fully developed in the more resistant rock . |
| 27 | The approach which is adopted in this book , and which is described in this introductory chapter , is a variety of ‘ contextual ’ approach : it is assumed that the semantic properties of a lexical item are fully reflected in appropriate aspects of the relations it contracts with actual and potential contexts . |
| 28 | It is assumed that the purposeful provision of facilities , or the success of intervention strategies to encourage fuller use of available resources , depends critically upon an account of adolescents ' reasoning about leisure . |
| 29 | In traditional studies of the way inhomogeneities — lumps of matter in the form of clusters of galaxies — form in the expanding Universe , it is assumed that the dominant influence is a mass , or density perturbation . |
| 30 | If it is assumed that the expected volume of output is roughly equal to that experienced in the previous year , , then the higher is , the greater will gross investment tend to be . |