Example sentences of "[pers pn] be assumed that [pron] be " in BNC.
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1 | Because many old people are poor , or mentally or physically frail , it is assumed that they are also rigid , unable to learn , unable to make new relationships , and so on . |
2 | As with his genealogical history , Foucault 's meditations on power are not themselves without problems , but reactions to them can also be too hastily dismissive , often because it is assumed that they are proposed as a general theory . |
3 | It is assumed that he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy . |
4 | No record exists of his education and it is assumed that he was privately tutored . |
5 | ( The discrepancy could perhaps be explained if it is assumed that there is also a weak preference to continue with the first-named character . ) |
6 | Although there is only a single Doom Diver model it is assumed that there is an infinite supply of would-be Doom Divers ready and waiting to be thrown into the air . |
7 | It is assumed that there is sufficient uniformity to facilitate the specification of situations and circumstances that make it more , or less , likely to occur . |
8 | The Aristotelian view , as I have interpreted it , ‘ works ’ only to the extent that it is assumed that there is no problem about what I shall call ‘ the autonomy of desires ’ . |
9 | It is assumed that there is no entry/exit of firms , the dominant firms face constant average and marginal operating costs , and blenders have , at least initially , a £10 mark-up over costs . |
10 | Although not discussed at the Forum meeting , and since the local authority directors are nominated on an agreed two year cycle , it is assumed that there is no opposition to Councillors , and being appointed to complete their second year . |
11 | There is no crew as such because the Doom Diver effectively launches himself , although it is assumed that there are a number of Doom Divers ready and willing to step forward and be catapulted into the air . |
12 | Again , when an early riser in urgent need of coffee complains , ‘ The gas wo n't light ’ , it is assumed that there are substances in the world that can be grouped under the concept ‘ gas ’ , and that some of them , at least , ignite . |
13 | It is assumed that there were no stock differences either at head office or at the branch for Year 41 . |
14 | It is assumed that you are using version 5.0 of the program and that the original settings on the program disk are in force . |
15 | It is assumed that it is ‘ natural ’ ( ie healthy ) to love and protect children . |
16 | It is assumed that it is only the field man who ‘ really knows ’ what is happening ‘ out there ’ . |
17 | The danger of adopting a systems approach uncritically is that it is assumed that it is sufficient to identify system structures and to portray the multitudinous variables involved in a particular system which then reinforces the first law of ecology as graphically described by Commoner ( 1972 ) that everything is connected to everything else . |
18 | It was assumed that what was being measured was a property of the personality . |
19 | The actual facts ' of who was arrested during the riots , whether black or white , were hardly debated since it was assumed that they were mostly black and mostly unemployed and involved with crime ( Keith , 1987 ) . |
20 | certainly it was assumed that there was some kind of organized network |
21 | When he had not returned by lam , it was assumed that he was the wanted man . |
22 | He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer . |
23 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
24 | Trade unions fell into the second of these groups , but , because of their large and fluctuating membership and because of certain provisions in the Trade Union Act 1871 , it was assumed that it was impracticable to bring actions against them so as to make their funds liable . |