Example sentences of "[modal v] [pron] be assumed that the " in BNC.

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1 Nor must it be assumed that the whole of the Sahara shared in this climatic amelioration , for , as Gautier says , there are few traces of wadi patterns in the Libyan desert , which , forming the core of the Sahara , was probably less affected .
2 Nor should it be assumed that the young teachers of 30 years ago were all aspiring members of the working class .
3 Nor should it be assumed that the division of the language items into lexis , structure and discourse function presents students with problems of equal difficulty or me with identical roles in each case .
4 Why , then , should it be assumed that the Holy Spirit was particularly active in professors ?
5 It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the document in question belongs to a given domain at all ( it may be some sort of hybrid , or simply too ambiguous to fit neatly in one domain ) .
6 It is not necessarily the case that this will have happened , nor can it be assumed that the data in question fits neatly within a specific domain at all .
7 To this extent , of course , a synchronically divergent language state requires the same kind of treatment as a historically divergent state : in neither case can it be assumed that the norms of some ‘ standard ’ variety can be successfully projected on to it .
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