Example sentences of "been assumed to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , however , the advice of the law officers of the day , and it has been assumed to be correct ( inter alia by Parliament in the Royal Titles Act 1953 ) , that upon failure of male heirs , primogeniture should apply as well to females . |
| 2 | These strains are prone to wasting away , which has been assumed to be due to constitutional weakness . |
| 3 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 4 | In his young days unmarried men had been assumed to be wicked dogs , gay bachelors . |
| 5 | Similarly , the payment schedule has been assumed to be independent of efficiency , but incentive schemes can be introduced where there are observable measures of output . |