Example sentences of "assumed to [be] a [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The supply of labour is assumed to be a fixed fraction of the total population , to be exogenously determined , and to grow exponentially at rate n : or where u denotes time , and L the derivative with respect to time .
2 Sporadic nucleation is assumed to be a first-order mechanism and if we consider that a two-dimensional disc is formed , then .
3 Revision is assumed to be a teleological operation , the process of an autonomous author in control of an autonomous aesthetic entity .
4 So there 's often a contradiction as to whether programmes are addressed to their actual or potential audiences or to a hypothetical audience , which in current affairs and news broadcasts is usually assumed to be a male viewer .
5 Labour topped the poll and won more than half the wards in the tier of local government usually assumed to be a Conservative stronghold .
6 Until recently it was assumed to be a flattened axisymmetric spheroid ( that is , one which is round in the plane of the Galaxy ) .
7 Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain .
8 The airflow over the tail is assumed to be a steady uniform flow comprising the vector sum of the bird 's velocity and the induced velocity generated by the wings .
9 Both volume and the absolute value of the change in price are assumed to be a positive function of the amount of disagreement between traders .
10 Following the derivation in Lancaster ( 1985a ) , we assume that the observed hazard function is and not ( as given by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) ) , where The unobservable random error is assumed to be a positive random variable with unit mean , variance and density .
11 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 ) .
12 Until March he was assumed to be a reliable , if conservative , servant of the president .
13 The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas .
14 Simple pre-exposure may be assumed to be an effective method for reducing associability because it allows the rapid formation either of a strong stimulus — no event association or of associations among stimulus elements , just as consistent reinforcement allows the rapid formation of a strong CS-US association .
  Next page