Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be assumed to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to me to illustrate what I would call the ‘ Breakthrough Phenomenon ’ : the sudden discovery that something which has been assumed to be out of the question is not out of the question at all . |
| 2 | These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness . |
| 3 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 4 | Previously they had been assumed to be something that belonged to the Royal College of Art , the Slade School , the Royal Ballet School , and so on . |
| 5 | It was , however , the advice of the law officers of the day , and it has been assumed to be correct ( inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953 ) , that upon failure of male heirs , primogeniture should apply as well to females . |