Example sentences of "assume to [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By the textuality of history , I mean to suggest , firstly , that we can have no access to a full and authentic past , a lived material existence , unmediated by the surviving textual traces of the society in question — traces whose survival we can not assume to be merely contingent but must rather presume to be at least partially consequent upon complex and subtle social processes of preservation and effacement ; and secondly , that those textual traces are themselves subject to subsequent textual mediations when they are construed as the ‘ documents ’ upon which historians ground their own texts , called histories .
2 the imposition and acceptance of earlier retirement ; the legitimation of low income ; the denial of rights to self determination in institutions ; and the construction of community services for recipients assumed to be predominantly passive .
3 Clearly pupils can not be treated as identical , assumed to be already equal , as though racism and sexism did not exist .
4 The important difference between Keynesian and neo-classical economics is that in the extreme Keynesian model , wages and prices are assumed to be inflexible ( at least in the downward direction ) whereas in the extreme neo-classical model , wages and prices are assumed to be completely flexible .
5 Flight is assumed to be either normal forward flapping flight , or gliding .
6 Thus for each country one could use Lucas 's measure of unanticipated aggregate demand to estimate the following OLS regression based on equation(6.3) : where is a coefficient , and is a random error which is assumed to be serially uncorrelated with zero mean .
7 Lafford is a prebend of Lincoln Cathedral , and Richard has been assumed to be also identifiable as Richard de Bello ( of Battle , probably Battle in Sussex ) who was prebendary of Lafford in 1277 and who was also treasurer of Lincoln Cathedral by October 1270 , until at least April 1278 .
8 The cone of vision is assumed to be right regular .
9 In Romantic-Crocean terms , the experience is assumed to be both unique and ineffable , to be undergone in a form of negative capability , without , in Keats 's words , any irritable reaching after fact and reason .
10 This would enhance the authority of international law because of the inherent and self-evidently moral qualities of such an impartial legal process ; the ‘ bindingness ’ of international law would be increased because the aims of the enterprise — the peaceful resolution of international conflicts — would be assumed to be universally desirable .
11 Many have accused schools of trying to prop up ailing churches and fill empty pews , and Christian teachers in particular have been assumed to be heavily biased , teaching for commitment to their particular brand of religion and intolerant towards other religions and other world views .
12 In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up .
13 These people have acquired their skills elsewhere : they receive no training in the course of their seasonal employment and are assumed to be fully functional from their first day at work .
14 Everyone is assumed to be potentially capable of having sexual relations with a person of either sex , although there could be exceptions at either end of the spectrum , that is , there are some people who are constitutionally unable to be anything other than heterosexual , and some who are unable to be anything other than homosexual .
15 It is also the case that people 's sex can not be held to be an effect of their job or their work record ; sex must be assumed to be causally prior to both of these variables .
16 Private passions are not assumed to be a universal , biologically determined category ( they are of unknown origin , not assumed to be necessarily identical across different cultures ) .
17 It was apparent that his attendance at the coming Party Conference must be assumed to be very unlikely , and that the question of replacing him as leader could arise .
18 However , schema-consistent information is assumed to be more easy to integrate into existing memory structures and more likely to be subsequently recalled since active schema guide and cue the retrieval process ( Brewer & Treyens , 1981 ) .
19 But particularly in a public sector context , where appeals to the public interest could be assumed to be more common , profound questions remain which can not be resolved by terse definitions .
20 Following this logic , only those depressive conditions where a stressor is apparently absent should be considered as ‘ real ’ depression , which is also sometimes assumed to be more likely to include psychotic symptoms and biological dysfunction .
21 Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic .
22 But in the classroom , the roles are often reversed : the person who asks the questions is the one who is assumed to be more knowledgeable .
23 The reason a bat is a particularly telling example for a philosopher , however , is that the experiences of an echolocating bat are assumed to be peculiarly alien and different from our own .
24 Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology .
25 Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself .
26 That is , the specialisation of the left hemisphere for language among inverters was assumed to be less complete than the right sided specialisation of non-inverters .
27 This is because older people are assumed to be less flexible , less motivated and more ‘ tired ’ than those in their 20s and early 30s .
28 Furthermore , couples are assumed to be legally married .
29 This comfort assumes that the identities , which can be so effortlessly , even unconsciously , adopted in listening to a speech , are not in serious conflict : the categories of ‘ Conservative ’ , ‘ British ’ , ‘ right-thinking ’ all overlap and , in fact , without reflection might be assumed to be virtually synonymous .
30 Graph ( a ) shows the Keynesian speculative demand for money ( L s ) on the assumption that it is inversely related to the rate of interest between the interest rates Oi and Oi , 1 : above Oi 1 , the speculative demand is assumed to be zero and below Oi , it is assumed to be perfectly elastic .
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