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

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1 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 .
2 There are assumed to be patterns of cause and effect that can be identified .
3 In such activities , there are assumed to be some INVARIANT elements which have to be performed ( eg conforming to the rules of tennis ) , but that there are VARIANT ways in which the individual may perform them ( eg in choice of backhands , forehands , volleys ) .
4 In analysing this , we retain in this section the simplifying assumptions about production ( there are assumed to be constant returns to scale and no intermediate goods ) .
5 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 ’ .
6 It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent .
7 There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon .
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