Example sentences of "be assumed to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In this department , you 're assumed to be drunk until proven otherwise , ’ said Keith Little , head of Accident and Emergency . |
| 2 | It is not difficult to see that in understanding such an exchange we make a great number of detailed ( pragmatic ) inferences about the nature of the context in which ( 32 ) can be assumed to be taking place . |
| 3 | Donaldson may be assumed to be referring to the Duke of Hamilton 's mausoleum at Hamilton Palace which Bryce executed after Burn had departed for London . |
| 4 | This means that prices and wages may be assumed to be fixed in the short-run . |
| 5 | In conversations which involve speakers of both the first and second generations it is mainly the behaviour of the second generation speakers which is of interest , for it is these individuals who have " stylistic mobility " between London English and Creole and can be assumed to be using the two codes differentially ( though not necessarily consciously ) in a strategic way . |
| 6 | Functional studies were essentially positivist in nature and depended upon the notion that phenomena can be explained as instances of repeated and predictable regularities in which form and function can be assumed to be related , and indeed form and process figured in the titles of a number of books concerned with processes ( e.g. Carson and Kirkby , 1972 ; Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) . |
| 7 | He bethought himself guiltily of Sergeant Crane , who might be assumed to be waiting to continue the conversation that Francesca 's call had interrupted , and padded down the corridor . |
| 8 | Thus by overtly infringing some maxim , the speaker can force the hearer to do extensive inferencing to some set of propositions , such that if the speaker can be assumed to be conveying these then at least the over-arching cooperative principle would be sustained . |
| 9 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 10 | Okay Now expect , farmer 's expectations of prices are assumed to be revised , right , each year , farmers revise their own expectations of future prices so that makes some sense . |
| 11 | Another , equally sinister , is the way in which most public meeting places and telephones are assumed to be bugged ; even the family is no longer a safe environment in which to talk . |
| 12 | Equation ( 5.60 ) ignores the current yield effect : all payments are assumed to be received on the basis of par , and this understates the value of the coupon for FRNs trading below par and overstates the value when they are trading above par . |
| 13 | The warhorses are assumed to be slain or incapacitated , but any surviving crew may continue to fight on foot . |
| 14 | In this paper , individuals are assumed to be characterized by varying degrees of commitment to the trade union , and the union offers a form of private good to its members in addition to negotiating the collective good of higher wages . |
| 15 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 16 | In much of the literature , savings are assumed to be based on rules of thumb . |
| 17 | In a number of theories of text comprehension , such mappings are assumed to be made ( potentially ) at a number of levels . |
| 18 | He contrasts the ‘ highly developed theory of market interaction ’ with the simplistic treatment of the public sector : ‘ the ‘ public choices ’ that define the constraints within which market behaviour is allowed to take place are assumed to be made externally or exogenously , presumably by others than those who participate in market transactions ’ ( Buchanan , 1972 , p. 11 ) . |
| 19 | Since leakages are assumed to be related to income , and injections are assumed exogenous , then variations in income equate total income and expenditure flows in the circular flow model . |
| 20 | Indeed , much ‘ practical ’ scientific learning in a western education system takes place in a laboratory where students imitate , learn concrete activities and at the same time are assumed to be developing logical and abstracting abilities . |
| 21 | We are assumed to be failed heterosexuals , feeding into the myth that the lesbian communities accommodate fat more easily than their straight equivalents . |
| 22 | Moreover , they are assumed to be committed to different conceptions of the good and they think that they are entitled to press their claims on one another to further their separate aims . |
| 23 | But intermediate taxes on production costs , like the property tax , commercial vehicle licences and employers ' national insurance contributions , are assumed to be passed on in consumer prices . |
| 24 | The expenditure costs T of the project are assumed to be allocated over n districts so that and the tax bill for the ith district is where . |
| 25 | Polar stocks are generally assumed to have accumulated , and still be accumulating , adaptations that equip them for the polar environment ; endemic polar species , that are found only in polar regions , are assumed to be derived from temperate or subpolar stocks , via intermediate stages that no longer exist . |
| 26 | Changes in output which can not be accounted for by changes in the input of capital and labour are assumed to be accounted for by autonomous shocks in technology . |
| 27 | Standard bearers and musicians are assumed to be equipped with the same weapons as the rest of the unit and fight just like ordinary troopers ( see the rulebook for a full description ) . |
| 28 | Standard bearers and musicians are assumed to be equipped with the same weapons as the rest of the unit and fight just like ordinary troopers ( see the Warhammer rulebook for a full description ) . |
| 29 | Standard bearers and musicians are assumed to be equipped with the same weapons as the rest of the unit and fight just like ordinary troopers ( see the Warhammer rulebook for a full description ) . |
| 30 | Note that , in the model , all profits are assumed to be distributed to households and not retained by the firms . |