Example sentences of "[adv] [be] assume that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had hitherto been assumed that successive Clean Air Acts had dealt with the problem . |
| 2 | It has long been assumed that the origins of many adult disorders lie somewhere in childhood or earlier events . |
| 3 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 4 | Since this was also a period of great affluence , it can only be assumed that the wealthy customers who commissioned the Kamares cups — aristocrats and priestesses among them — could now afford cups of precious metal instead . |
| 5 | It could only be assumed that the prints were obtained in a clandestine manner . |
| 6 | It might perhaps be assumed that families sending girls to be compositors would be those where there was some interest in books , but the evidence is very fragmentary . |
| 7 | Where the board can effectively determine its own composition it has generally been assumed that it becomes immune from direct shareholder influence and hence that control has shifted from the owners to managers . |
| 8 | Invariably in well-established firms the work continues to flow from long tapped sources , but in the aggressive business climate facing the profession today it can no longer be assumed that this will continue . |
| 9 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 10 | In this respect gonorrhoea differs from the majority of other bacterial infections , for which it has always been assumed that a course of treatment lasting several days or even weeks is needed . |
| 11 | It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage — the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal . |
| 12 | Until recently it had always been assumed that all calories are the same , regardless of where they came from . |
| 13 | It had always been assumed that Gooch wanted to spend time with his family before the new home season begins in April . |
| 14 | Capping entitlements has never been popular , mainly because it has always been assumed that social-security recipients ( old-age pensioners ) would be hardest hit . |
| 15 | A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’ |
| 16 | In the past it has always been assumed that the wall followed the same line as its medieval successor . |
| 17 | ’ We have no policy on single-sex swimming , as it has never been an issue before and it has always been assumed that all children would swim together . ’ |
| 18 | If the traders in a passing-off action operate in different fields of activity , it will usually be assumed that there is less danger of confusion and thus less danger of damage to the plaintiff . |
| 19 | It has traditionally been assumed that a gradual decrease in intensity of Hercynian folding has resulted in the stratigraphic relationships observed within the late Carboniferous . |
| 20 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 21 | It might automatically be assumed that because that was the name of our branch , we should be in the public service section and that it why we 've changed the name of the branch to Bristol and District Staff because we are an odds and sods branch . |
| 22 | It has typically been assumed that firms act perfectly competitively and that all markets clear . |
| 23 | It has so far been assumed that while the corporate sector 's response to consumer demand may be imperfect , that what is responded to is at least an authentic expression of consumer tastes . |
| 24 | On the other hand , since nearly 80 per cent of the nation were illiterate in early NEP , consisting of a disorganized and fragmented peasantry , it has often been assumed that the actions of this class have been both unreflective and ineffective . |
| 25 | It has often been assumed that these figures were simply invented , and are evidence that the Bible is historically unreliable . |
| 26 | It can not simply be assumed that a parent who is present at the injury of their child has condoned it . |
| 27 | It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context . |
| 28 | It has consistently been assumed that Parliament can abolish the House of Lords , though in order to do so , a Bill to this effect would have to be passed . |
| 29 | In the past , because children have been able to chant numbers in order ( 1 , 2 , 3 … ) , it has sometimes been assumed that they understood them and so were ready for sums . |
| 30 | While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) . |