Example sentences of "[noun] are assumed to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the insiders ' skills are assumed to be firm specific , acquired over the years and difficult to replicate in the short to medium run . |
| 2 | ( d ) Overflow can not occur on multiplication if the values are assumed to be integral , but multiplication of two operands both of which are the maximum negative number causes overflow under the fractional convention . |
| 3 | Certain principles and values are assumed to be unchallengeable and therefore to be nurtured . |
| 4 | With this in mind the genetics-supply industry has approached the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) negotiations at which all biological processes and products are assumed to be patentable . |
| 5 | From the individual 's point of view , bonds and equities are assumed to be perfect substitutes . |
| 6 | That is , descriptions of perception and action are assumed to be unproblematic which in fact are deeply puzzling . |
| 7 | In all cases the movements are assumed to be continuous . |
| 8 | In such models the policy ineffectiveness proposition no longer holds , even though expectations are assumed to be rational . |
| 9 | In this case , the position is equivalent to that of compulsory purchase , and the permissions in the Eighth Schedule are assumed to be available when assessing the compensation . |
| 10 | The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment . |
| 11 | The important difference between Keynesian and neo-classical economics is that in the extreme Keynesian model , wages and prices are assumed to be inflexible ( at least in the downward direction ) whereas in the extreme neo-classical model , wages and prices are assumed to be completely flexible . |
| 12 | All players are assumed to be steroid-free , suspension free and eligible . |
| 13 | In these models , only union members are assumed to be eligible for employment in the union sector ( for interesting surveys see Oswald , 1985 ; Pencavel , 1985 ; Farber , 1986 ; Ulph and Ulph , 1990 ) . |
| 14 | Second , even if straightforward authoritarianism and minimisation of wages are assumed to be universal features of capitalist rationality , it is difficult to claim that this ‘ rationality ’ is uniformly imposed in practice as a function of the ‘ undisputed authority of the capitalist ’ ( Marx ) . |
| 15 | Sections 3.6–3.16 are concerned with magnetostatics , where electric fields are assumed to be zero and the interrelationship of J , H , and B are studied . |
| 16 | If colonic polyps are assumed to be asymptomatic the sensitivity of colonic symptoms predicting non-polypoid lesions rose to 69% ( 95% confidence interval 44–94% ) . |
| 17 | If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ? |
| 18 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the outcomes are assumed to be indicative of the quality of the educational process . |