Example sentences of "assume to [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remark was tinged with the suggestion that she would like a witness , apart from Marshall whom she could reasonably assume to be biased in Wickham 's favour . |
| 2 | Most people say that in an ideal world they would assume to be spending roughly double on entertainment of all kinds , compared with when they were working . |
| 3 | If on arrival he hands them over to someone whom he reasonably assumes to be authorised to receive them , then he has carried out his duty of delivery , Galbraith and Grant v. Block ( 1922 K.B. ) . |
| 4 | Brahe works on the CERN accelerator ( which the novel assumes to be completed and functioning ) ; his experiment involves close and constant watching of the monitor which will tell him when the ‘ event ’ has taken place . |
| 5 | The constructed index is transformed so as to move from 0 in 1970 Q4 to a peak of unity assumed to be reached in 1989 Q4 . |
| 6 | The actors , however , are subject to pressures and constraints arising from the environmental setting in which they operate , assumed to be given and exogenously determined . |
| 7 | When viewing behaviour the firm is , in effect , given the benefit of the doubt and assumed to be operating in a competitive manner unless and until some cause for concern is expressed . |
| 8 | This is equal to the volume assumed to be consumed by the reduction of 12 mmol SO 4 in the three responders . |
| 9 | That part of the image which had the most resonance both with elderly workers and their employers was that of ‘ retirement impact ’ — that is , of the physical and mental ill effects assumed to be associated with retirement . |
| 10 | ( 1978 ) studies are characterized by generally low levels of arousal , whereas studies such as those by Peters ( 1988 ) and Johnson and Scott ( 1976 ) have been successful in inducing the higher levels of arousal assumed to be associated with violent crimes . |
| 11 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 12 | examine with reference to their general compliance with these conditions , the several drawings bearing the numbers given in the enclosed list ; and to prepare a statement , giving first the Conditions which they assume to be required in the cases of each of the three classes of designs and secondly , showing whether any and which of the several sets of drawings selected fail to comply with such conditions ; and also in what respect , and to what extent , these conditions are neglected or departed from . |
| 13 | Consumers ' domestic expenditure C is assumed to be related to income levels Y . |
| 14 | Saving S in the economy is assumed to be related to income levels also , in a similar manner to consumption . |
| 15 | Since leakages are assumed to be related to income , and injections are assumed exogenous , then variations in income equate total income and expenditure flows in the circular flow model . |
| 16 | Functional studies were essentially positivist in nature and depended upon the notion that phenomena can be explained as instances of repeated and predictable regularities in which form and function can be assumed to be related , and indeed form and process figured in the titles of a number of books concerned with processes ( e.g. Carson and Kirkby , 1972 ; Gregory and Walling , 1973 ) . |
| 17 | A recent increase in reports is assumed to be connected with the re-establishment of a British breeding population . |
| 18 | Chapter 4 will describe and evaluate the legal response to shirking and managerial incompetence , the other problems we have assumed to be exacerbated by the separation of ownership and control , by way of the duty to exercise diligence , care , and skill . |
| 19 | In Fig. 11–8 the bureau is assumed to be maximizing the size of its budget and producing an output of Oq b . |
| 20 | Indeed , much ‘ practical ’ scientific learning in a western education system takes place in a laboratory where students imitate , learn concrete activities and at the same time are assumed to be developing logical and abstracting abilities . |
| 21 | The provisional IRA 's commitment to violence against the British and against the protestant — loyalist alliance , which the provisionals rhetorically and conveniently subsume under the term ‘ the British ’ , is frequently assumed to be based on either Marxist or nationalist principles and in both cases to be secularist or areligious . |
| 22 | Even when they apply themselves to understanding the effects of social relations on individual cognition , as with work on social identity and social representations , the patterns they describe are assumed to be based on universal properties of the human mind . |
| 23 | In much of the literature , savings are assumed to be based on rules of thumb . |
| 24 | Another , equally sinister , is the way in which most public meeting places and telephones are assumed to be bugged ; even the family is no longer a safe environment in which to talk . |
| 25 | At the bottom of the hierarchy of the production structure , where spirits are assumed to be crushed , have come a new army of workers — fresh , vivacious and increasingly angry . |
| 26 | Equation ( 5.60 ) ignores the current yield effect : all payments are assumed to be received on the basis of par , and this understates the value of the coupon for FRNs trading below par and overstates the value when they are trading above par . |
| 27 | ‘ In this department , you 're assumed to be drunk until proven otherwise , ’ said Keith Little , head of Accident and Emergency . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if Scottish political life in the counties is assumed to be explained by the suggestion that bribery was all in all , this would be a misleading impression , for many freeholders were less in the pocket of a political manager than the managers themselves would have liked to think , or conventional accounts would suggest . |
| 29 | The liability of each person is assumed to be determined by the independent contribution of a major locus ( g ) ( a locus that causes a displacement of more than one phenotypic standard deviation between normal and abnormal genotypes on the liability scale ) ; a multifactorial component ( c ) , attributable in theory to a large number of genetic or environmental influences , or both , acting additively and transmitted from parents to their children ; and a random , non-transmitted environmental factor ( e ) . |
| 30 | The value of exports is assumed to be determined by factors outside the domestic circular flow and so is assumed to be exogenous in our model . |