Example sentences of "is often assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 2 | London salaries were only 11 per cent above average , with executive salaries in Yorkshire , Humberside and the East Midlands 5 per cent below average , showing much less of a regional difference than is often assumed . |
| 3 | The second muddle concerns murder and manslaughter specifically , namely , that since there is no workable defence of insanity , it is often assumed that the existence of the mandatory penalty for murder is the essential reason for the section 2 defence . |
| 4 | It is often assumed that winter is the most suitable time for training yet only 43% indicated that any time during winter would be suitable . |
| 5 | In a commercial or industrial setting it is often assumed that organisations try to maximise profits as their main goal . |
| 6 | Because these three associated religions appear to have in common the belief in one transcendent personal creator , it is often assumed that they all believe in the same God . |
| 7 | Because of this it is often assumed that cleaning staff are familiar with the basics especially when women are employed . |
| 8 | The costs of building refurbishment may be greater than is often assumed . |
| 9 | Indeed , it is often assumed that women are the ‘ natural ’ carers , and that such work is n't quite suitable for a man . |
| 10 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is often assumed that clients interfere with their ulcers between treatments to ensure the community nurse will revisit and meet their need for social contact . |
| 13 | It is often assumed that Wordsworth himself was responsible for the fame of the area as a holiday centre , but this is only partly true . |
| 14 | It is often assumed that the Second World War had a more radicalizing impact on British politics than the First . |
| 15 | In the field of clinical linguistics , there are many conditions which , it is often assumed , have similar causes and which can be treated in similar ways . |
| 16 | It is often assumed that employers take advantage of the demand for positions where interesting work , pleasant conditions and a high degree of job satisfaction are reckoned to make up for low pay . |
| 17 | It may , at the time when it was built , have been intended as a final resting-place for the priestesses of the Knossos Labyrinth , rather than , as is often assumed , for the Knossian kings . |
| 18 | The proper field of women psychologists is often assumed to be far from the heights of psychological theory . |
| 19 | While this is often assumed axiomatic to good services , which have been removed from a local base only because of the division of labour requirements of bureaux , it is not a self-evident welfare virtue . |
| 20 | It is often assumed that Foucault is simply the philosopher of discontinuity , merely substituting it where previously there had been continuity ; but the discontinuous is emphasized only because so much stress is normally placed on the continuous . |
| 21 | Where there is power , there is resistance : contrary to what is often assumed , it is the absence of resistance which is impossible . |
| 22 | The difference is double the increase in the number of abortions , and one abortion can not be considered to ‘ prevent ’ one live birth — a ratio of 3:1 is often assumed . |
| 23 | It is often assumed that personal contacts will push through more of your material than that of other PROs and that you will be able to ask for favourable comment here and there . |
| 24 | For example , it is often assumed that multiculturalism is methodologically individualist , and reduces racism to an individual pathology of prejudice , whilst antiracism is radically holist and insists on the primacy of structural processes . |
| 25 | It is often assumed that what I have earlier called the ‘ division of labour by strata ’ is the prime objective content of the British ‘ class ’ system but there are severe methodological problems in investigating this hypothesis , since the schemas proposed for the classification of occupations are not actually independent of the phenomenon to be explained . |
| 26 | It is often assumed that textual discussion must be complex to be acceptable . |
| 27 | Another possible implication is that into the early years of the next century fewer old people will lack kin support or would be living alone than is often assumed . |
| 28 | Someone must plough the fields or milk the cows , but much of this endeavour takes place hidden from public view and when a tractor is glimpsed across a field it is often assumed that it is a farmer who is in the cab . |
| 29 | The arrival of this ‘ adventitious ’ rural population goes back further than is often assumed , and is by no means a purely post-war phenomenon . |
| 30 | Briefly , the available evidence shows that the benefit they confer on the various socio-economic groups changes according to government policies and they do not always give greater benefits to those living in council accommodation , as is often assumed . |