Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] are assumed to be " in BNC.

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1 Decrements at high levels are assumed to be the result of the impairment to short memory .
2 In a number of theories of text comprehension , such mappings are assumed to be made ( potentially ) at a number of levels .
3 The reason a bat is a particularly telling example for a philosopher , however , is that the experiences of an echolocating bat are assumed to be peculiarly alien and different from our own .
4 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 .
5 Height and good posture are assumed to be ‘ good ’ signs for people motivated to succeed in work organizations .
6 Note that , in the model , all profits are assumed to be distributed to households and not retained by the firms .
7 All players are assumed to be steroid-free , suspension free and eligible .
8 Equation ( 5.60 ) ignores the current yield effect : all payments are assumed to be received on the basis of par , and this understates the value of the coupon for FRNs trading below par and overstates the value when they are trading above par .
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 This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s .
11 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 .
12 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% ) .
13 Wealth-producing assets are assumed to be infinitely divisible and taxes and transactions costs are both zero .
14 Indeed , much ‘ practical ’ scientific learning in a western education system takes place in a laboratory where students imitate , learn concrete activities and at the same time are assumed to be developing logical and abstracting abilities .
15 If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ?
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