Example sentences of "might be assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bethought himself guiltily of Sergeant Crane , who might be assumed to be waiting to continue the conversation that Francesca 's call had interrupted , and padded down the corridor . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 4 | After all , now that women in particular live longer , middle age might be assumed to begin a few years later too . |
| 5 | In addition , low profits might be assumed to have lowered expectations of future profits and hence weakened the incentive to invest — a factor shown by the Radcliffe Report ( 1959 ) to have been far more important in determining investment policy than the rate of interest . |
| 6 | This comfort assumes that the identities , which can be so effortlessly , even unconsciously , adopted in listening to a speech , are not in serious conflict : the categories of ‘ Conservative ’ , ‘ British ’ , ‘ right-thinking ’ all overlap and , in fact , without reflection might be assumed to be virtually synonymous . |
| 7 | It might be assumed that forcible resistance to power without right must itself be legal and not revolutionary ; but in every case there seems no recourse except to force of some kind . |
| 8 | At first glance it might be assumed that this would always be the case . |
| 9 | The New Historicists ' 'reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history' would set up an exchange which might be assumed to be awkward . |