Example sentences of "assume [prep] be [art] " in BNC.

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31 The sort of spatial metaphor implicit in Peer Gynt 's account of himself is also apt in the accounts of self given by Daly , Millett and Frye , except that there is assumed to be a ‘ core ’ .
32 Too often the company is assumed to be a collection of assets , available to the highest bidder .
33 In the UK this issue was thrown into bold relief by the Tyndale Affair , which some observers have , mistakenly , assumed to be a cause rather than a symptom of the accountability debate .
34 Both volume and the absolute value of the change in price are assumed to be a positive function of the amount of disagreement between traders .
35 Purchases by customers are assumed to be a function of advertising and promotional expenditure , salesforce effort and commission , and retailer sales effort .
36 Detrimental to the plaintiff it can not be , if he has no cause of action ; and beneficial to the defendant it can not be ; for , in contemplation of law , the defence upon such an admitted state of facts must be successful , and the defendant will recover costs , which must be assumed to be a full compensation for all the legal damage he may sustain .
37 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 .
38 ( ii ) This is assumed to be a log function .
39 Following the derivation in Lancaster ( 1985a ) , we assume that the observed hazard function is and not ( as given by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) ) , where The unobservable random error is assumed to be a positive random variable with unit mean , variance and density .
40 The supply of labour is assumed to be a fixed fraction of the total population , to be exogenously determined , and to grow exponentially at rate n : or where u denotes time , and L the derivative with respect to time .
41 Thus , the efficiency of workers may be a function of the degree of supervision and of the salary differential ( promotion being assumed to be a reward for efficiency ) .
42 But if there are two countries used in the sample then , since is assumed to be a constant across countries , that is it is not indexed on i , there will be a restriction on the model .
43 Revision is assumed to be a teleological operation , the process of an autonomous author in control of an autonomous aesthetic entity .
44 The results appeared to show that irrespective of retention interval the recall task ( assumed to be a test of central information ) showed performance on the critical slides which was best for subjects who viewed the arousing version of the film .
45 The recognition test ( assumed to be a test of peripheral information ) , showed the reverse result , with recognition performance being worse for subjects in the arousal condition .
46 Sporadic nucleation is assumed to be a first-order mechanism and if we consider that a two-dimensional disc is formed , then .
47 Each line of the file is assumed to be a role name .
48 Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment .
49 Earlier practice was assumed to be a group activity to which all lent potential imaginative content .
50 The well known picture of the flautist that appears as the frontispiece of his Principes de la flûte traversière ( Paris , 1707 ) is assumed to be a portrait of Jacques himself ; the instrument he plays is the archetype of the early three-piece flute ( illus.2 ) .
51 Simple pre-exposure may be assumed to be an effective method for reducing associability because it allows the rapid formation either of a strong stimulus — no event association or of associations among stimulus elements , just as consistent reinforcement allows the rapid formation of a strong CS-US association .
52 Burrough ( 1986 ) suggests that the area of the map covered by lines can be assumed to be an area of uncertainty .
53 Why the date 1785 was used is uncertain ; it was said by Professor J.G. Wright to commemorate the meeting of the Odiham Agricultural Society when the first mention of the idea of improving farriery was made , but the strong possibility remains that it was originally meant to be 1875 , the year the College received its Charter of Incorporation and adopted its coat of arms , and that someone corrected what was wrongly assumed to be an error .
54 The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas .
55 Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty .
56 This is that , where there is judicial uncertainty over the meaning of a legislative text , in the absence of any consequent overt expression of a contrary parliamentary view , certain categories of statement on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention .
57 The effect of the income tax is assumed to be to reduce post-tax income ; the effect of indirect taxes is assumed to be an increase in the consumer price .
58 The demonstrators against the war in the streets of the capital are using the weapon of Islamic solidarity to have a go at the western powers , and some are indirectly critical of Mr Suharto , who is assumed to be the West 's friend .
59 Within media studies , on the other hand , the temptation is to see a pre-given social identity of race , class , gender limiting the possibilities of infinite variety , so that readings are not so much ‘ produced ’ in particular settings as assumed to be the product of a fixed exchange between the reader 's social position and the text .
60 The culprit was assumed to be the young woman whose charred body had been trapped by the flames ; she was identified as a feminist — funny , when PopCon had been giving money and moral support to feminist groups .
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