Example sentences of "it [be] assumed that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Bins should be sited as conveniently as possible to the main source of material , it being assumed that it will be carried by wheelbarrow .
2 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 .
3 But these resources are not sufficient for them to reach their migratory goal and it is assumed that they die before the journey is complete .
4 PULSARS that are members of binary systems in globular clusters are all rapidly rotating , and it is assumed that they have been spun up by accretion from binary companions .
5 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 .
6 Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case !
7 There is a metaphysics of ontological realism underlying the conception of variable analysis , if only to the extent that it makes sense to talk of indices only if it is assumed that they " stand for " something .
8 The other four patients had non-functioning gall bladders before and after treatment but their cystic ducts were patent at percutaneous cholecystolithotomy , and it is assumed that they do not respond to the fatty meal stimulus used to test gall bladder emptying .
9 It is assumed that they will act responsibly , and if there is maladministration or corruption there is the right of appeal to the ombudsman or the courts , though in practice this is of limited use .
10 In TA it is assumed that we all have stroke quotas , established in early learning .
11 This allows a comparison to be made between markets in countries that are at a different stage in their development , but it is assumed that their development will follow a similar pattern .
12 It is assumed that whatever an operator is doing can be classified into one of five categories : operation , inspection , transport , delay and storage .
13 NOTE : In this article it is assumed that your machine has a hard disk called C : and MS-DOS is stored in a directory C : \DOS .
14 In transactional analysis ( TA ) it is assumed that our habitual ways of feeling and behaving largely stem from the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people .
15 If you die leaving £347,000 to your wife it is assumed that she still has it when she dies , so £200,000 is taxable then .
16 It is assumed that he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy .
17 No record exists of his education and it is assumed that he was privately tutored .
18 So that every American president is a sort of half breed , a cross between Daniel Boone and Jesus Christ and that however corrupt and venal a politician he might have been before , once he assumes the White House it is assumed that he changes .
19 For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors .
20 ( The discrepancy could perhaps be explained if it is assumed that there is also a weak preference to continue with the first-named character . )
21 Under such conditions , it is assumed that there would have been no ‘ real ’ changes in the child 's language and that any differences in the two test scores would be due to error arising from the limitations of the test itself ( see Chapter 7 ) .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 ’ .
26 Instead of assuming that their development progresses along a smooth and unproblematic path it is assumed that there have to be mechanisms and policies to overcome constantly recurring disequilibria and attempts to gain some sort of balance ( for example , between agriculture and industry ; between the amounts available for consumption and for investment in new capital ; between money and financial capital on one hand and production on the other ; and , especially , between capital and labour ) .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 It is assumed that there were no stock differences either at head office or at the branch for Year 41 .
30 It is assumed that there will be no need for as great a level of close supervision and scrutiny as that required at lower levels , and that successful candidates will , apart from occasional stylistic errors and slips , be able to carry out successfully all the linguistic tasks and employer might set .
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