Example sentences of "it be [adv] assumed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for approximate computational purposes it is normally assumed in the western world that a full working year is no more than 200 man-days . |
| 2 | In spite of its rarity in oral language , it is widely assumed to be easy to read , and hence is freely introduced into children 's fiction and other early reading materials . |
| 3 | It is also assumed in this review that it is only officially sponsored programmes or policies that are being discussed . |
| 4 | It is also assumed by the Act that any difference of opinion over the running of the partnership 's ordinary business will be decided by a simple majority of the partners , although any change in the nature of the firm 's business requires unanimity . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 6 | Animal Painting in Britain was the title of a book by Basil Taylor , where he explained in his first chapter that the topic had been neglected since it was either assumed to be about sporting pictures , or about pictures of horses by such specialists as Sartorius . |
| 7 | It was generally assumed among the pupils that our teachers , being women , would have preferred to be fully sexual , childbearing beings . |
| 8 | The first is problematic in the light of the theory that living organisms ‘ see ’ with their eyes ; the second was problematic for the supporters of Galileo 's theories because it clashed with the ‘ force of a vacuum ’ theory accepted by them as an explanation of why the mercury does not fall from a barometer tube ; the third was problematic for Roentgen because it was tacitly assumed at the time that no radiation or emanation of any kind existed that could penetrate the container of the photographic plates and darken them ; the fourth was problematic because it was incompatible with Newton 's theory . |
| 9 | It was tacitly assumed by everyone that every single thing existed for the benefit of humankind — nature was man 's convenient larder or leisure bowl . |
| 10 | It was therefore assumed in the culture that there were ‘ universals ’ and that it was the universal , rather than particular instances of that universal , which could be said most truly to exist . |