Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Before his time , American presidents were not assumed , any more than other heads of state , to have a corner on principled and coherent reasons for intervention ; the United States did its bit , muffled its complaints , tried — when pushed — to be a good ally . |
| 3 | erm Indeed one of the sad things perhaps at the lowest level is how many jobs are requiring mathematical skills that , that perhaps twenty years ago were n't assumed . |
| 4 | Local capital is not assumed subordinate because the local bourgeoisie has certain economic and political advantages , which can be used when dealing with multinationals . |
| 5 | The most definitive statement to which attention may be drawn in this regard is the much-quoted reply of Gregory Nazianzen to Apollinarius : ‘ What is not assumed , is not redeemed ’ — or in Greek , ‘ not taken on , not healed ’ . |
| 6 | That it ought to interfere and regulate or even suppress these autonomous , self-creating , voluntary associations is a matter for it to prove : it is not assumed … |
| 7 | Within the state , the polis , all the inhabitants are rated as men , in the sense that they are not monsters ; but it is not assumed that , by virtue of being men , they are all of equal moral standing . |
| 8 | In line with poststructuralist debates about identity and subjectivity , femininity is not assumed but explored as contradictory , strategic and fragmentary . |
| 9 | Pupils can be helped to appreciate the link between the spiritual dimension and religion , and to do this in such a way that the outcome is not assumed . |
| 10 | But unfortunately we can then easily imagine a context in which that sentence might be appropriately used , in which it is not assumed that John cheated : for example , you thought he had cheated , asked me whether he now repents , but I tell you he never did , and persuade you accordingly , and then I say so John does n't regret cheating ( Gazdar , 1979a : 105 ) . |
| 11 | This approach assumed a degree of consensus within the family which was not assumed to the same extent in any other social institution . |
| 12 | In fact this ignorance was not assumed . |
| 13 | His enthusiasm was not assumed entirely for Oliver 's benefit . |