Example sentences of "be assumed by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference decision arose from an implicit assumption by the Carnegie Trustees that following a three-year funding of successful pilot schemes , subsequent responsibility would be assumed by LEAs . |
| 2 | In any case , for him 7,500,000 votes was sufficient legitimacy , and it could , after all , be assumed by those of a religious turn of mind that God had already blessed his enterprise — could he have succeeded otherwise ? |
| 3 | Rationality is part of our greatness , but it also serves to keep us humble because rationality itself must be assumed by faith . |
| 4 | ‘ Lloyd 's has to decide whether , as Names die or become unable to pay , the risks can be assumed by the Society as a whole or whether the maxim of ‘ Each for his own part ’ is strictly applied . |
| 5 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |
| 6 | Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established . |
| 7 | The facts to be assumed by the House of Lords for the purposes of the appeal were that Shell and others had , in breach of the sanctions order , covertly supplied Southern Rhodesia with oil by other means and thereby prolonged the state of illegal independence and the time during which Lonrho 's pipeline was out of use . |
| 8 | What seems to be assumed by the author about your prior knowledge in the following lines : |
| 9 | One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced . |
| 10 | Although it could be assumed by some that this is a development towards a more specialized and fragmented approach it may alternatively be a foundation for a more unified approach and one which accommodates the necessity to combine understanding at the microphysiology and biochemistry ( realist ? ) level with that at the biome level which had traditionally been approached more in functional terms . |
| 11 | For where rapes are not differentiated , it tends to be assumed by police and prosecutors that true rape is rape with clear indications of violence . |
| 12 | Whereas one human being can direct ‘ a look ’ towards another human being , ‘ the gaze ’ can not be assumed by anyone . |
| 13 | ‘ This programme is soundly in place at Waterford and is in the process of being implemented in Wedgwood with the expectation that it , too , will be fully in place by year-end or early next year — at which time , having done what I came to do , the chairmanship will be assumed by Dr O'Reilly . |
| 14 | However , of much more concern to Blythen Jenkins , head of corporate affairs with the IoD , is the tendency ‘ in all legislation where the liability of the company is involved , such as environmental or consumer protection , to have a little paragraph in it saying liability shall be assumed by the directors and officers of the company ’ . |
| 15 | To the extent that there are shareholders with shares issued under the share option scheme at completion , these vendors will enter into the contract purely as vendors of the shares and all warranties and indemnities will be assumed by the principal shareholders of ABC . |
| 16 | Hong Kong 's partially elected Legislative Council passed on the same day a motion calling for amendments , particularly to increase provisions for democratic representation and to limit the circumstances in which emergency powers could be assumed by the Chinese authorities . |
| 17 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 18 | A Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed on March 27 that the responsibilities of the Foreign Minister , Sahibzada Yaqub Khan , who resigned officially on March 20 [ see also p. 38007 ] , would be assumed by Akram Zaki , secretary-general at the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | While some reports suggested that Western donor countries including the United States had expressed a strong preference for the post to be assumed by a European , others claimed that Pakistan , which currently housed an estimated 3,000,000 Afghan refugees , had opposed the appointment of an Indian national . |
| 20 | A National Council for Teacher Education and Training , with a regional structure , would have responsibilities which included validation , though this might ‘ quite rapidly ’ be assumed by the CNAA and , in some cases , by universities . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) For the purpose of determining whether a person occupying any land is in adverse possession of the land it shall not be assumed by implication of law that his occupation is by permission of the person entitled to the land merely by virtue of the fact that his occupation is not inconsistent with the latter 's present or future enjoyment of the land . |
| 22 | If the matrimonial home is already subject to a mortgage then the requirements of the mortgagees will have to be ascertained prior to a conveyance or transfer and if , although the house is to remain in joint names , liability for the mortgage payments is to be assumed by one party , an indemnity to the other party will have to be included in the declaration of trust ( see Precedent 54 ) . |