Example sentences of "[vb mod] be assume [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be tempting to say that , when there is a floating charge , ‘ jeopardy ’ should be assumed whenever the circumstances make it unreasonable , in the interests of the debentureholder , that the company should retain power to dispose of the property subject to the charge . |
| 2 | Neither of these could be assumed merely from the conclusion of the treaty . |
| 3 | That is to say , the existence of home ground may be assumed not only for the grassroots component of a society , but for all its members . |
| 4 | However , once again , the Council may be assuming too great a role for itself in meeting this need . |
| 5 | Man , furthermore , shares sociality with a wide array of other living organisms and to treat the specifically human kind without a look at other species would be to assume too narrow a perspective . |
| 6 | Moreover , since it is said in a context where Adam has just manifestly failed to react to the punch-line as quickly as the set of other students , the speaker ( given this type of speaker to this type of hearer in this type of surroundings ) will be assumed not to be intending to tell an untruth , but to be implicating the opposite of what she has said . |
| 7 | However to simplify the apparatus the radiometer will not be used and the light intensity will be assumed approximately constant . |
| 8 | ( c ) Accounting and tax Whilst agreement in principle may have been reached on the relative standing in the new firm of its partners , precise calculation of their capital and profit sharing ratios can be a nightmare as the accountants wrestle with the task of bringing the accounts of the firms involved into line with one another : and it will be assumed here that there are differing practices which need to be harmonised . |
| 9 | In the following analysis of the behaviour of operational amplifiers subjected to various forms of negative feedback , the open-loop amplifier will be assumed effectively ideal for simplicity . |
| 10 | It can be assumed then that by 1910 the age range ran from 14 to 43 for certain , and there will most likely have been a few women in their late forties or early fifties . |