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

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31 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 .
32 Earlier practice was assumed to be a group activity to which all lent potential imaginative content .
33 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 ) .
34 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 .
35 Burrough ( 1986 ) suggests that the area of the map covered by lines can be assumed to be an area of uncertainty .
36 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 .
37 The demand for exports ( X ) , however , is assumed to be an exogenous variable as it depends on incomes and demand conditions overseas .
38 Infant mortality is frequently assumed to be an especially sensitive indicator of severe poverty .
39 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on the effect of the provision of a Bill by one of a narrowly defined group of parliamentarians , if not later withdrawn or varied , can be assumed to be an expression of parliamentary intention .
40 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 .
41 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 .
42 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 .
43 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 .
44 Sex is assumed to be the property of a ‘ physical elite ’ : our sexual possibilities are significantly affected by our appearance .
45 This answer to the problem of overcrowding is not thought to need any further explanation because it is assumed to be the rational course of action : people saw that it was the only feasible thing to do , and acted accordingly .
46 For Marxist sociology , as we have seen , cause and correction have not usually been problematic , since capitalism has been assumed to be the cause and the transition to socialism the cure ; their attention has been more directed to capitalist law-creation and-enforcement .
47 The purposes are assumed to be the public good .
48 Despite the fact that single-parent families , people on their own , or unrelated people living together constitute 32 per cent of all households ( Central Statistical Office , 1979 , p. 44 ) , the household is generally assumed to be the nuclear family .
49 In addition to this , the head of the household is almost always assumed to be the man in the household , even if the wife is working .
50 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 .
51 A second barrel was opened , and a third , but some said this was n't necessary , for it was the accepted custom that if one barrel was found to be wanting , the shortage was assumed to be the same in all the rest .
52 The result is the final value of N. Note that the value f(C) is assumed to be the true worth of the state C , at least when C is a goal .
53 Don Juan Pond , 122 m above sea level in Wright Valley and now only a few centimetres deep , is assumed to be the remnant of a much larger freshwater lake of at least 10 m depth .
54 But of course these are equal because the seasonal usage and cost per unit is assumed to be the same .
55 Speculative efficiency implies that where f t is assumed to be the forward rate for trading two periods forward .
56 So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside .
57 In normal driving , performance at this level is assumed to be the result of automatic processing .
58 Decrements at high levels are assumed to be the result of the impairment to short memory .
59 Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance .
60 The site of acetylation of 5-ASA was widely assumed to be the liver , but it has recently been shown that the human colonic epithelial cell is capable of acetylating 5-ASA , and that N-acetyltransferase activity is present in the cytosol .
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