Example sentences of "be assumed to be a " in BNC.

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1 If women are to be a good test of male-oriented psychological theories , as egalitarian feminist psychology hopes , they must be assumed to be a largely homogeneous population .
2 Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain .
3 Simple pre-exposure may be assumed to be an effective method for reducing associability because it allows the rapid formation either of a strong stimulus — no event association or of associations among stimulus elements , just as consistent reinforcement allows the rapid formation of a strong CS-US association .
4 Burrough ( 1986 ) suggests that the area of the map covered by lines can be assumed to be an area of uncertainty .
5 This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention .
6 As discussed above there are assumed to be a number of willing Doom Divers ready and waiting to step forward and be catapulted into the air .
7 Both volume and the absolute value of the change in price are assumed to be a positive function of the amount of disagreement between traders .
8 Purchases by customers are assumed to be a function of advertising and promotional expenditure , salesforce effort and commission , and retailer sales effort .
9 In that year the German chemist Friedrich Wohler ( 1800–92 ) found a way of producing from inorganic materials the chemical urea ; always beforehand this had been assumed to be a substance that could be produced only by bodily ( biochemical ) reactions .
10 Thus , the efficiency of workers may be a function of the degree of supervision and of the salary differential ( promotion being assumed to be a reward for efficiency ) .
11 We therefore have : 1 ) the malady if it is a malady ; at any rate it is assumed to be a malady by the proponents of incomes policy ; 2 ) a theoretical cause of the malady , which is not disputed ; 3 ) the practical demonstration that this cause has been in operation ; and 4 ) the psychological explanation why that cause is desired , fomented and sustained by Governments .
12 The airflow over the tail is assumed to be a steady uniform flow comprising the vector sum of the bird 's velocity and the induced velocity generated by the wings .
13 The sort of spatial metaphor implicit in Peer Gynt 's account of himself is also apt in the accounts of self given by Daly , Millett and Frye , except that there is assumed to be a ‘ core ’ .
14 Too often the company is assumed to be a collection of assets , available to the highest bidder .
15 At the surface of the Earth , which is assumed to be a sphere of radius R and uniform density p , the relative acceleration of two objects towards the Earth as a result of such a fifth force would be if is the usual gravitational acceleration and Δ ( B ) is the difference between the values of B for the two bodies .
16 ( ii ) This is assumed to be a log function .
17 Following the derivation in Lancaster ( 1985a ) , we assume that the observed hazard function is and not ( as given by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) ) , where The unobservable random error is assumed to be a positive random variable with unit mean , variance and density .
18 The supply of labour is assumed to be a fixed fraction of the total population , to be exogenously determined , and to grow exponentially at rate n : or where u denotes time , and L the derivative with respect to time .
19 But if there are two countries used in the sample then , since is assumed to be a constant across countries , that is it is not indexed on i , there will be a restriction on the model .
20 Revision is assumed to be a teleological operation , the process of an autonomous author in control of an autonomous aesthetic entity .
21 Sporadic nucleation is assumed to be a first-order mechanism and if we consider that a two-dimensional disc is formed , then .
22 Each line of the file is assumed to be a role name .
23 The well known picture of the flautist that appears as the frontispiece of his Principes de la flûte traversière ( Paris , 1707 ) is assumed to be a portrait of Jacques himself ; the instrument he plays is the archetype of the early three-piece flute ( illus.2 ) .
24 The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas .
25 The effect of the income tax is assumed to be to reduce post-tax income ; the effect of indirect taxes is assumed to be an increase in the consumer price .
26 The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made .
27 There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon .
28 Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president .
29 Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) .
30 Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment .
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