Example sentences of "are [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Einstein 's Theories of Relativity are generally assumed to tell us that nothing can travel faster than light . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Alcohol and tobacco are generally assumed to be products with a very inelastic demand . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Private passions are not assumed to be a universal , biologically determined category ( they are of unknown origin , not assumed to be necessarily identical across different cultures ) . |
| 7 | The answer to that of course is ‘ no ’ ; because honour , pride and ego are always assumed to be male . |
| 8 | Note that regimental champions ( Bosses ) are always assumed to be armed and equipped exactly as the rank and file members of their regiment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ancestral origins from different geographical regions , however , are still assumed to be important in understanding pupil needs . |
| 12 | Variable and fixed costs are traditionally assumed to be linear . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fracture length is derived from stimulation modelling provided the fracture height and width are correctly assumed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The PR department endorses this : ‘ You can not develop a love of writing them if you have not loved reading them ’ ; the conventions of the form are internalized to such an extent by both authors and editors that they are no longer acknowledged as such ; they are simply assumed . |
| 18 | Changes of social and geographical , as well as occupational , location are simply assumed , taking no account of the often very strong existing attachments ( let alone more mundane issues , such as differential house prices and rental charges ) . |
| 19 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 20 | Variants of binary variables ( which are implicitly assumed to be discrete ) are most easily handled as percentages ; table 5.1 for example lists zero realizations of ( h ) as a percentage of the total number of occurrences of both variants . |
| 21 | The second underlying problem is unexpected company collapses , which are popularly assumed to indicate audit failures . |
| 22 | A major difficulty with the thesis is that it rests on an a priori allocation of functions between national and local states , and that these functions are then assumed to produce specific and separate political processes . |
| 23 | This same point about the divisibility of roles which are ordinarily assumed to be interchangeable is further exemplified by my second example which is another piece of classic ethnography . |