Example sentences of "assumed to [be] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the more elementary systems that we are now considering , kinship , of a general sort , is assumed to be all-pervading but there is again a discrimination between the insiders and the outsiders , we " and they " . |
| 2 | The riskiness of the investment : investors are assumed to be risk-averse and therefore the required rate of return they require will increase with the perceived riskiness of an investment . |
| 3 | This skill is assumed to be inborn and intuitive , but one glance at a student 's notes shows this assumption to be unfounded . |
| 4 | The advantages of unity over diversity , or collectivism over individualism , are assumed to be self-evident and the obvious totalitarian overtones are ignored . |
| 5 | In poetry this minimum may always be assumed to be present but that is not true of the making of images . |
| 6 | Consider a closed economy in which investment ( I ) and government spending ( C ) are assumed to be autonomous and taxes ( T ) are all lump-sum . |
| 7 | Aggregate supply is either assumed to be time-trended or represented in some other naive fashion . |
| 8 | The planetary guard of a godling despot must be assumed to be numerous and very well armed — though how well experienced ? |
| 9 | ( During the late nineteenth century , single pregnant women were sometimes assumed to be insane and were confined to the workhouse under the 1890 Lunacy Act . ) |
| 10 | New information is forced to the front as though it were given information , suggesting that a famous writer can always be assumed to be energetic and successful at school . |
| 11 | For intergroup comparison the data were assumed to be non-parametric and the Wilcoxon 's rank-sum comparison was used . |
| 12 | Certain principles and values are assumed to be unchallengeable and therefore to be nurtured . |
| 13 | Hamlets and farmsteads within the parishes of these villages were generally not documented before the twelfth or thirteenth centuries and were therefore assumed to be secondary or daughter settlements created as the population expanded , more land was cleared and farmed , and new settlements were needed . |