Example sentences of "be [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 2 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 3 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Einstein 's Theories of Relativity are generally assumed to tell us that nothing can travel faster than light . |
| 6 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 7 | Alcohol and tobacco are generally assumed to be products with a very inelastic demand . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 . |
| 10 | The answer to that of course is ‘ no ’ ; because honour , pride and ego are always assumed to be male . |
| 11 | Note that regimental champions ( Bosses ) are always assumed to be armed and equipped exactly as the rank and file members of their regiment . |
| 12 | Note that regimental champions are always assumed to be armed and equipped in exactly the same way as the rank and file members of the regiment . |
| 13 | By virtue of having a prior claim on assets and having a fixed and legally enforceable income and redemption , fixed interest debentures are usually assumed to offer less risk to the investor . |
| 14 | Ancestral origins from different geographical regions , however , are still assumed to be important in understanding pupil needs . |
| 15 | Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear . |
| 16 | To make a useful fusion reactor needs high densities of the deuterium fuel and , it has been traditionally assumed , temperatures greater than those in the centre of the Sun so that fusions occur frequently enough that more energy is liberated than consumed . |
| 17 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |
| 18 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 19 | In the basic Gaussian method just described , it has been tacitly assumed that all errors are equally likely . |
| 20 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 21 | Fracture length is derived from stimulation modelling provided the fracture height and width are correctly assumed . |
| 22 | There are bedside books but no bedside ideas ; and books , plays and films are now assumed to exist less to amuse or console than to stimulate and provoke . |
| 23 | Other economic transactors are now assumed to compare the declining yield on bills with the ( now relatively higher ) yield on close substitutes such as short-dated bonds . |
| 24 | It will be widely assumed that the cabinet fears it would be unable to control a judicial inquiry . |
| 25 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
| 26 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 27 | It can be easily assumed that because we know how computers work we therefore know how learning is programmed . |
| 28 | It should not be automatically assumed that they will . |
| 29 | The Newsons suggest these associations stand out to such an extent that they ‘ can be fairly assumed to be causative ’ . |
| 30 | In these circumstances , it should be roughly assumed that you would be burning up around 2,000 calories a day . |