Example sentences of "[Wh det] is assumed " in BNC.

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1 Beholden to an anatomically derived , heterosexually structured , and all-embracing dualism , such theories could only conceive of homosexuality as a disavowal of that very difference which is assumed to be fundamental to social , psychic , and sexual organization .
2 As Eyre ( 1987 ) reports , there is considerable variation of opinion relating to rates of deforestation ; FAO ( 1985 ) , for example , quote a figure of 3.0 per cent per year which is assumed to be due to commercial logging .
3 The acceptance of the first of the three premises , that the god to be worshipped is not to be identified with the power which is assumed to have created the universe , will bring about a change from long established practice and is of great importance .
4 The responsible commitment which is assumed in a small way in all personal knowledge comes into its own in the Christian faith .
5 The major locus , which is assumed to have two alleles — A and A' producing three genotypes AA , AA' , A'A' — is defined by three parameters : q , the frequency of the major gene A' ; t , the displacement — that is , the distance measured in standard deviations on the liability scale between the two homozygous genotype class means ; and d , the degree of dominance , expressed as the position of the heterozygous class mean in relation to the homozygous class mean ( d=0 corresponds to a recessive gene , d=1 to a dominant gene , and d=0.5 to an additive gene ) .
6 In his second oration against Verres Cicero describes hypocrisy in terms which sound like a scenario for Iago 's undermining of Othello : In the Academica he attacks the simulatio of virtue which is assumed not out of duty but in pursuit of pleasure , and in De Finibus he denounces those whose actions are motivated by personal desire for pleasure rather than respect for the moral law .
7 Dominant values are upheld and dominant interests protected in the name of universal interests — in the child care case , in the cause of child welfare , which is assumed to be some kind of objectively assessable ‘ good thing ’ .
8 An alternative to this view is that corporate managers use their expertise to help define and implement the broad purpose of the organization , which is assumed to be that of furthering the public interest .
9 In arguing for the relevance of the notion of autonomy in private life , she brings into question the demarcation point between private and public life which is assumed by most of the philosophical tradition she is working in .
10 At the surface of the Earth , which is assumed to be a sphere of radius R and uniform density p , the relative acceleration of two objects towards the Earth as a result of such a fifth force would be if is the usual gravitational acceleration and Δ ( B ) is the difference between the values of B for the two bodies .
11 Associated with each vacancy is a fixed wage w which is a random draw from the density , which is assumed to be constant over time and known to the searcher .
12 Equations ( 5.1 ) and ( 5.2 ) have already been explained : t is the aggregate demand shock which is assumed to follow the ‘ random walk ’ process shown in equation ( 5.3 ) , that is it equals its value in the previous period plus t , a serially uncorrelated random error with zero mean and constant variance .
13 Further influences on demand are a relative demand shock , and a private-sector aggregate demand shock , t which is assumed to follow the process shown in equation ( 5.3 ) .
14 Thus for each country one could use Lucas 's measure of unanticipated aggregate demand to estimate the following OLS regression based on equation(6.3) : where is a coefficient , and is a random error which is assumed to be serially uncorrelated with zero mean .
15 The distribution of the isotope shifts among the various bands gives independent evidence about the force field , which is assumed to be invariant , while the mass-dependent kinetic energy terms alter .
16 ( 8.19 ) is the value in period n of the dividend income to infinity which is assumed to grow at the ‘ normal ’ rate , ( ) , discounted back to the present .
17 Pakistan 's military intelligence service , the ISI , which is assumed to be directing the attack , has lost face .
18 As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years .
19 We saw in the previous chapter that equilibrium is achieved in the money market when the total demand for money ( which depends on the interest rate and the level of income ) is equal to the money supply ( which is assumed to be autonomous ) .
20 What is assumed is an unreal world in which governments would be able to resist the pressures and demands of this union or that business corporation for tariff adjustments to meet particular vested interests .
21 The Atapeuerca skeletal sample is large by the standards of any other Middle Pleistocene hominid site , so it provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the internal morphological and metrical variation of what is assumed the represent a penecontemporaneous sample of individuals of different ages and sex .
22 Perform beyond what is assumed to be their potential best .
23 In contrast , the gigantic photographic images depicting what the curator Jeffrey Deitch has called our Strange Developments act to bludgeon what is assumed to be our jaded sensibilities , but more obviously demonstrate the burn out of a certain faction of the mid Atlantic artworld , curators and buyers .
24 This assumption can be made explicit by making literal use of an " existence predicate " , and sometimes any residual doubts about what is assumed on a particular occasion can be resolved only by a repeated and emphatic use of such predicates ; but , as is clear from what has been said so far , the use of such predicates is not analogous to acts of property ascription , especially if " properties " are understood in the sense of " accidental properties " .
25 The forces which made your parents as they are , the making of what is assumed can take a whole lifetime to unravel .
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