Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] assumed " in BNC.

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1 We have so far assumed that the micro-instructions are held in a read-only control store , although we have considered the possibility of interchangeable plug-in control stores .
2 We have so far assumed that it is a word form associated with a single sense , and that a difference of word form entails a difference of lexical unit .
3 In particular , following monopolisation costs are unlikely to remain unchanged , as we have so far assumed .
4 This rural bourgeoisie was not , as is so often assumed , a ‘ new feudalism ’ created by the sales of church and common lands after the 1830's .
5 I do not think that these qualities arise wholly , or even mainly , as it is so often assumed , from the character of its buildings and the beauty of the natural forms , such as trees , which stand in juxtaposition to them .
6 It is perhaps implicitly assumed that each franchise chain has little market power .
7 Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ .
8 People just automatically assumed success .
9 Despite Cuvier 's warnings , it was still widely assumed that the vertebrates are collectively more advanced than any invertebrate type .
10 Although it is still popularly assumed that men are more prone to fall prey to the ravages of ‘ burnout ’ due to overwork and unhealthy lifestyle , all the evidence now points to women , especially aged between 35 and 50 , as today 's prime targets of stress .
11 As regards utilising the services of third parties for debt collection , you have once again assumed the worse scenario as if I meant their complete extinction , which I quite clearly stated ‘ less dependent ’ .
12 Muggeridge once again assumed that aggrieved air , which was easy enough for him , because he felt aggrieved much of the time .
13 This may be viewed as an empiricist attitude but , according to William James , pragmatism represents empiricism ‘ both in a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed ’ .
14 It is also normally assumed that there is a perfectly competitive market structure and no potential to reap economies of scale .
15 It may be reasonably confidently assumed that the different criteria for ambiguity which have been described in fact are sensitive to the same underlying semantic property , and that in the absence of ‘ special factors ’ will provide identical diagnoses .
16 Following this logic , only those depressive conditions where a stressor is apparently absent should be considered as ‘ real ’ depression , which is also sometimes assumed to be more likely to include psychotic symptoms and biological dysfunction .
17 But Lee Bridges of the Public Law Project points out that judicial reviews have so far effectively assumed that , even if services are provided by an independent agent , ultimate responsibility lies with the public body holding basis statutory responsibility .
18 In other words , if he does n't like what he sees , the eventual succession from Davies to Jenkins would not , as is now widely assumed , be inevitable .
19 Jeremy Isaacs , former chief executive of Channel Four , challenged Mr Birt to name the mystery secretarial assistant to whom Mr Birt 's company paid a £15,000 salary , and who is now widely assumed to have been Mrs Jane Birt .
20 This programme for a natural religion has its own importance as making explicit something which is often enough assumed , but has been heavily criticised in much modern theology — the idea that religion functions chiefly to safeguard the good ordering of society .
21 Cunningham 's ignorance was now patently assumed .
22 It is sometimes claimed , and more often tacitly assumed , that spatio-temporal relations belong in this category , and that , accordingly , relational expressions such as " to the left of " , " before " , etc should be treated as logically basic simple symbols .
23 But the exact nature of the contribution is perhaps less straightforward than is now often assumed .
24 But the exact nature of the contribution is perhaps less straightforward than is now often assumed .
25 In addition to this , the head of the household is almost always assumed to be the man in the household , even if the wife is working .
26 But why , I wonder , is it almost always assumed that when a marriage ( or relationship to use modern jargon ) ceases to function , the man is to blame and that where there are children , he is less fitted to oversee their upbringing ?
27 I wonder if any of your readers noticed in The Times of 10 March how Lord Armstrong of Ilminster of the Victoria and Albert Museum 's Trustees , quite casually assumed that the independence of our national museums had already been similarly compromised ?
28 At the end of the First World War it was confidently and almost universally assumed that after a short time money would be back to its pre-war value and market prices ( including market rents ) to their pre-war levels .
29 Nevertheless , despite his vital if sometimes reluctantly assumed role in maintaining the norms of society , the psychiatrist is often in danger of under-valuing the weight of the social pressures bearing on his patient and of assuming ethnocentrically that his own and his society 's moral standards enjoy universal validity .
30 Certainly ‘ professionalism ’ is beginning to be viewed sceptically and competence is no longer assumed .
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