Example sentences of "[modal v] be assume [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Bayes ' postulate is that , when nothing to the contrary is known , the probabilities should be assumed to be equal .
2 Bayes ' postulate is that , when nothing to the contrary is known , the probabilities should be assumed to be equal .
3 If a car is unlawfully taken and then returned in a damaged state , it seems absolutely right that the person or persons responsible for taking it should be assumed to be responsible for causing the damage unless they can prove the contrary .
4 The concept , now referred to as ‘ universal precautions , ’ stresses that all patients should be assumed to be infectious for HIV , HBV , and other blood-borne pathogens .
5 in its statement of claim must be assumed to be correct .
6 The planetary guard of a godling despot must be assumed to be numerous and very well armed — though how well experienced ?
7 The New Historicists ' 'reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history' would set up an exchange which might be assumed to be awkward .
8 This type of deformation causes no dilatation and so the observed effects may be assumed to be due to one causes only — structural rearrangements which do not cause a change of volume .
9 This asserts that the demand for a company 's equity may be assumed to be flat ( perfectly elastic ) for all practical purposes and hence increases in supply will have no discernible effect on the price .
10 Your salary is £8,250 exclusive of live-in benefits , which may be assumed to be equivalent to a further 20 per cent .
11 These ‘ leaders ’ may be assumed to be aware of each other 's power and reliably to report it .
12 When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise .
13 One problem for the non-native speaker of English is to decide when a group can be assumed to be familiar .
14 The approximate savings per unit can be assumed to be 1 chef at £6,000 per annum per unit .
15 It would be unduly optimistic to assume that management skills have risen to a level such that costs undertaken can be assumed to be equivalent to value .
16 In this chapter , however , we are focussing attention on the behaviour when the effect of such departures can be assumed to be slight .
17 Other than in such cases of clear juxtaposition , dots can be assumed to be purposeful when there is graphic consistency , and especially when such consistency is combined with gentle expression .
18 Subroutines are usually written to be " transparent " to the calling routine ; that is , the processor registers such as accumulators and condition codes can be assumed to be unaltered by the subroutine call , unless they are explicitly part of the subroutine linkage .
19 The compressibility of the solvent is equal to the molar volume of the solvent in solution , V 1 , and can be assumed to be unchanged over a small range of pressures , thus giving
20 All rates of pay quoted can be assumed to be gross , i.e. inclusive of employer 's contributions etc .
21 As we noted , in the canonical situation of utterance , with the assumption of the unmarked deictic centre , RT can be assumed to be identical to CT ( Lyons ( 1977a : 685 ) calls this assumption deictic simultaneity ) .
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