Example sentences of "[adv] assumed that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is apparently assumed that the contents of current affairs programmes can be neatly listed in three columns , headed respectively Favourable to Us , Favourable to Them and Neutral . |
| 2 | I had foolishly assumed that the opportunity would be taken to eliminate a particularly hazardous S-bend and install a roundabout in its place thus easing the flow of the many cars , buses and lorries which use the road . |
| 3 | I did n't ask why , just assumed that the baby was presenting the wrong way . |
| 4 | Rape is only held to have been committed in English law where the sexual intercourse is ‘ unlawful ’ , and it is generally assumed that the function of that term is to remove non-consensual intercourse between a man and his wife from the ambit of rape . |
| 5 | It is generally assumed that the rise of more widespread educational opportunities has given children of working-class parents the chance to study for the qualifications necessary to enter middle-class occupations . |
| 6 | On the other hand the EEC Nine produces only 64% of its consumption of sheep meat and it is generally assumed that the UK with approximately 25% of the EEC sheep flock and as the leading producer of 50% of Community production is well placed to reap some advantage which could be of benefit to the hills and upland areas . |
| 7 | It is generally assumed that the use of and will enhance plural reference in this example . |
| 8 | In her fantasies Phoebe had somehow assumed that the mammogram would be visible . |
| 9 | It was normally assumed that the quantity of differences as measured by some typological evaluation among assemblages ( usually subjective intuition ) is a measure of ethnic affinity between the groups responsible for the archaeological remains . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've always assumed that the country has enough water but the shortages of the last three or four years have shown this is not the case , ’ said Dr Neil Johnston , author of the report . |
| 11 | The industry has always assumed that the birds recover quickly , but research by Dr Michael Gentle , of Edinburgh 's Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research , has shown that the animals experience chronic pain for weeks or months afterwards . |
| 12 | The derivation of the birds from a reptilian ( possibly dinosaur ) ancestor is certain , and because the earliest fossil bird , Archaeopteryx , is Jurassic in age , it is usually assumed that the split from the reptiles occurred in the earlier part of the period . |
| 13 | The torturers usually assumed that the victim had useful information and was guilty . |
| 14 | It is usually assumed that the aim of group management is to maximise group profit . |
| 15 | ‘ So you jumped to the conclusion that the two episodes were connected and instantly assumed that the villain was me ! ’ |
| 16 | It is also assumed that the number of arrivals of information per time period varies . |
| 17 | It is also assumed that the variance of the error term is constant and that the error terms themselves are uncorrelated with any other firm 's error term ( ) and uncorrelated with the independent variable , . |
| 18 | It is also assumed that the reader is familiar with relational database technology and the concepts and terminology therein . |
| 19 | ( Some 15 other states where the Moral Majority are by no means the silent majority , had hoped to pass similar laws , but it is now assumed that the case will go to appeal and eventually reach the Supreme Court ) . |
| 20 | It is now assumed that the objective of policy is to maximise economic welfare , where economic welfare is equated with total surplus . |
| 21 | If it is now assumed that the coefficients on and in the unemployment equation are different , so that we are not assuming structural neutrality , we can rewrite the unemployment equation as : |
| 22 | The second muddle concerns murder and manslaughter specifically , namely , that since there is no workable defence of insanity , it is often assumed that the existence of the mandatory penalty for murder is the essential reason for the section 2 defence . |
| 23 | When computerised personnel systems are discussed , it is often assumed that the kind of thing in question is interrogating personnel records , salary modelling and manpower planning . |
| 24 | It is often assumed that the world of desktop publishing begins and , for some people , ends with the Apple Macintosh . |
| 25 | We have so far assumed that the micro-instructions are held in a read-only control store , although we have considered the possibility of interchangeable plug-in control stores . |
| 26 | It was widely assumed that the assailants had mistakenly believed their victims to be of Korean extraction , and that the assault was connected to a black boycott of two Korean-American grocery shops in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn . |
| 27 | Although there was no confirmation last night , it was being widely assumed that the explosives were Semtex and the discovery part of a pattern of similar finds and explosions in an IRA mainland campaign that has continued for more than a year . |
| 28 | Because the economy is in recession , it is widely assumed that the government will and should cut interest rates . |
| 29 | It is widely assumed that the Bundesbank council will effect a 50 basic points cut in official rates at either the meeting this Thursday or on 1 April . |
| 30 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |