Example sentences of "[been] [adv] assumed " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been widely assumed that he would succeed Sir Robert Scholey when the chairman steps down . |
| 2 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 3 | It has also been widely assumed that members do not want to involvement in the policy-making process and that they join the party primarily for personal or social reasons . |
| 4 | As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 . |
| 5 | To make a useful fusion reactor needs high densities of the deuterium fuel and , it has been traditionally assumed , temperatures greater than those in the centre of the Sun so that fusions occur frequently enough that more energy is liberated than consumed . |
| 6 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |
| 7 | In the basic Gaussian method just described , it has been tacitly assumed that all errors are equally likely . |
| 8 | It has been tacitly assumed that someone , somewhere in an organization collates economic facts and integrates them through a rigorous form of evaluation , so that decisions become almost self-evident provided only that the decision-makers realize that no one can make perfect predictions and that some allowance for uncertainties is needed . |
| 9 | It has been implicitly assumed above that ta ; S/δD = 0 , which accords with the Miller and Modigliani ( 1961 ) result that the share price is unaffected by dividend policy . |
| 10 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 11 | The number of working-class boys admitted to grammar schools was disproportionately small , and ‘ measured intelligence ’ could not — as had been conveniently assumed — be treated as though it were clearly independent of genetic endowment , or of environment . |
| 12 | Two broad themes were apparent : first , there was a growing recognition that elderly people were mentally and physically capable of far more than had been previously assumed , and that it was medically and socially possible for them to maintain an independent and active life . |
| 13 | Moreover , the officer of arms making the visitation was directed to enquire into the lives of all those using a title of honour or dignity such as knight , esquire or gentleman , and if such a title or coat of arms had been falsely assumed or usurped , the offender was to be publicly denounced by proclamation . |
| 14 | These conclusions lead her to argue that rationality has been falsely assumed to be the criterion of political adulthood , and that rationality does not entail autonomy . |
| 15 | It has been commonly assumed that in controversy even if we could finally agree on what is objectively so , the moral debate has not yet started ; you can still find good what I find bad , and unless we discover common principles from which to argue , the debate can never begin at all . |