Example sentences of "can [not/n't] [be] assumed [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health policy did not escape this intellectual challenge , but policy prescription can not be assumed to lead to policy change . |
| 2 | Even those entries — unquestionably the majority — which represent profits accruing from physical possession of land can not be assumed to hold a uniform significance . |
| 3 | Because of this , a poetic utterance has no functional ties with the real context in which it is produced and can not be assumed to refer to any aspect of its producer 's existence . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that the women who had epidural analgesia had significantly longer labours , a greater requirement for oxytocin , and a higher rate of instrumental delivery as such factors increase the need for epidural analgesia and therefore can not be assumed to result from it . |
| 5 | For those who love labels , then , modern British literature in that aspect might conveniently be called Aristophanic — provided , that is , it is well understood that its novelists and playwrights can not be assumed to have taken any attentive interest in ancient Greek comedy , and that coincidence is all it is . |
| 6 | Patients with PBC and PHT can not be assumed to have portal hypertension without investigation as primary PHT may be associated with PBC without portal hypertension . |