Example sentences of "be assumed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge , but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change . |
| 2 | This meeting also approved a circular letter which it is to be assumed canvassed for potential members . |
| 3 | Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance . |
| 4 | We can begin by considering the mixing of N 1 molecules of component ( 1 ) with N 2 molecules of component ( 2 ) and this can be assumed to take place on a hypothetical lattice containing cells of equal size . |
| 5 | Treaty could not be assumed to disregard . |
| 6 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; ( d ) assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessments by teachers . |
| 7 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; |
| 8 | Taking from the 1910 sample only those marriages recorded before 1914 , which can therefore be assumed to represent the pre-war pattern , the age distribution of the twenty-nine brides was as shown in Figure 1 . |
| 9 | Further , the body will be assumed to oscillate at one angular frequency ο . |
| 10 | Because of this , a poetic utterance has no functional ties with the real context in which it is produced and can not be assumed to refer to any aspect of its producer 's existence . |
| 11 | An important question with implications for some translation-related activities such as abridging , expanding , or any form of rewriting which introduces or deletes gaps between a certain item and its subsequent mention in a text is this : how long can an element be assumed to remain in the addressee 's consciousness ? |
| 12 | Convention be interpreted as meaning that there must be a connection between the actions against the various defendants ? ( b ) If question ( a ) must be answered in the affirmative , does the necessary connection between the actions against the various defendants exist if the actions are essentially the same in fact and law ( einfache Streitgenossenschaft ) , or must a connection be assumed to exist only if it is expedient to hear and determine them together to avoid the risk of irreconcilable judgments resulting from separate proceedings ( for example , in cases of ‘ notwengide Streitgenossenschaft ’ ( compulsory joinder ) ) ? |
| 13 | Courts are likely to be faced with more complex parliamentary history and consequently more difficulty in determining whether a statement may be assumed to demonstrate parliamentary intention . |
| 14 | Because of the substantial sums of money being provided by the profession and the Government , if for no other reason , both can be assumed to continue to have an important say in policy making , but clearly the effect is in some sense to establish a middle ground . |
| 15 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 16 | The law should prohibit : the export of military , security and police equipment and training where these can reasonably be assumed to contribute to human rights abuses ; the manufacture of equipment which can only be used for torture or other cruel , inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners . |
| 17 | What we need to determine now is what further processes , if any , must be assumed to operate during the habituation procedure if the results of studies of latent inhibition are to be explained . |
| 18 | However , if lenders and borrowers can be assumed to look further ahead than the immediate moment , and if their guesses about the future are anywhere near what eventually happens , the level of real interest rates in 1984–5 may be better represented by one of the last two columns of Table 8.3 . |
| 19 | The hypotheses considered in the preceding section of this chapter ( that pre-exposure allows the formation of a stimulus — no event association , and so on ) still remain viable provided it is allowed that the associations they envisage can still be assumed to interfere with retrieval . |
| 20 | The ‘ conglomerate ’ regression equation could be assumed to apply to Panaragua . |
| 21 | However , his teacher warned that proficiency in conversational language should not be assumed to equate with proficiency in cognitive or ‘ academic ’ language . |
| 22 | Though they were spoken for my benefit , I could not be assumed to share the same norms . |
| 23 | Such units may be termed secondary ( the primary/secondary distinction here is not , of course , a strict dichotomy — the accessibility , or ease of activation , of lexical units may be assumed to vary continuously ) . |
| 24 | Since principal investigators may be assumed to influence the selection of coauthors , the popularity of the Vancouver convention raises a testable hypothesis — namely , that senior authors may favour six author articles over seven author articles . |
| 25 | It is not surprising that the women who had epidural analgesia had significantly longer labours , a greater requirement for oxytocin , and a higher rate of instrumental delivery as such factors increase the need for epidural analgesia and therefore can not be assumed to result from it . |
| 26 | The number of intervening sentences in which the item was not mentioned is one obvious variable , but more interesting would be the effect of such discourse boundaries as a change of scene , where a whole set of items can be assumed to enter the consciousness of the addressee , presumably pushing out old ones . |
| 27 | It was possible to teach one single set of paddling techniques because all boats could be assumed to work in roughly the same way . |
| 28 | Society has the right , according to Devlin , to protect itself from immoral acts , and these acts are immoral if , by definition , every ‘ right-minded ’ person could be assumed to consider them so . |
| 29 | Still flexing his fingers , he started to dig them into the base of her neck , or rather , in the area where her neck might be assumed to begin . |
| 30 | After all , now that women in particular live longer , middle age might be assumed to begin a few years later too . |