Example sentences of "[adv] assumed that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Which she foolishly assumed would be easy , because she had foolishly assumed that Irish villages were like English ones .
2 It is generally assumed that international forces have a great influence on the UK so that it is the international economy which determines the character of the crossroads now facing the UK .
3 It is generally assumed that all spreadsheets will benefit from fast calculation but this is n't necessarily so .
4 Lampreys and hagfishes lack a differentiated stomach , and it is generally assumed that all agnathans were similarly microphagous with no need for a stomach .
5 It is generally assumed that both texts on British Library Additional MS 23986 are preserved there as fragments of longer originals , and this is certainly true of the Anglo-Norman ballad first written on the roll .
6 Although the calculations available in the literature have very largely assumed that direct files are loaded using two passes , there are a number of cases in which a one-pass load occurs in practice .
7 The careful exegete , however , will also be troubled by the fact that the Bible hardly majors on this issue , that we do not know the context of Paul 's two references to the subject , and that a strong anti-homosexual line is only possible if one has already assumed that such statements are immediately transferable into our situation straight from the biblical period .
8 For example , hearing impairments provide a common aetiology for linguistic difficulties among deaf children and for this reason it is usually assumed that deaf children will respond to therapy in similar ways .
9 Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats .
10 It is also assumed that these qualities are true of most old people .
11 Policy-makers and commentators in many countries of the world have often assumed that small farmers and peasants in mountainous and/or environmentally degraded areas will abandon their hillside plots if given other opportunities elsewhere , so that the state by various means can ease population pressure on steep slopes by encouraging or at least not inhibiting colonisation of new areas .
12 In the past , it was often assumed that all babies who could not tolerate milk were lactase-deficient , and this idea is still current in some quarters .
13 It is often assumed that personal contacts will push through more of your material than that of other PROs and that you will be able to ask for favourable comment here and there .
14 Without anything in writing to the contrary , it is legally assumed that all members of the band equally share the band 's profits and assets .
15 In the basic Gaussian method just described , it has been tacitly assumed that all errors are equally likely .
16 It was tacitly assumed that such activities were for grown-ups only .
17 It is widely assumed that different ICUs can be compared by the ratio of actual mortality to that predicted by the APACHE score .
18 The household is often treated as a unit of consumption , and it is frequently assumed that all members of a household have equal access to its resources .
19 It is frequently assumed that large corporations act in roughly the same manner , whether they are part of the public or the private sector , and that their industrial relations follow the same pattern , too .
20 And they have too readily assumed that legislative changes , such as the Obscene Publications Act , 1959 , the Sexual Offences Act , 1967 , the Abortion Act , 1967 and others , are sufficient evidence in support of the second , that the rules governing behaviour changed .
21 It might be naively assumed that these variations in expenditure reflect the varying patterns of need for health care illustrated by the population .
22 Even with interests , it ought not to be casually assumed that all interests are automatically legitimate , or that compromises can and should be made to accommodate them .
23 While the Romans are described as being tributary , it seems that the lands which had originally been granted to free-born Franks had been exempt from tax , and that the Franks subsequently assumed that any lands which they came to hold were similarly exempt .
24 Although it is commonly assumed that these tests reflect compliance with the diatary treatment , this has never really been proved for ingestion of small amounts of gluten .
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