Example sentences of "[be] assumed that [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most important , given that a rogue GMO in the environment might continue to reproduce and spread , it can not be assumed that any system of regulation can adequately guard against an environmental catastrophe . |
| 2 | Since any comprehensive peace implies a reduction of influence by , and local dependency on , the superpowers , it can not be assumed that either superpower has a strong interest in a genuine peace , unless it is able to derive greater advantage from peace than it can from continued conflict . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Rather oddly , in the context of a crisis in which the abolition of the House of Lords was under consideration , it seems to have been assumed that this reservation would present a realistic safeguard against a majority party in the House of Commons seeking to keep its government in power indefinitely rather than face the country . |
| 5 | Traditionally , it has been assumed that this information is derived from non-visual sources such as the vergence angle of the eyes . |
| 6 | Foreign trade is excluded from consideration , since it is assumed that such trade will not affect the value of production , but merely affect its material form . |
| 7 | If it is assumed that this country had achieved the minimum level of industrial development by 1850 , then the available circumstantial evidence suggests that by then about 70 per cent of the working class had achieved basic literacy rates . |
| 8 | Although no birds are in evidence , it is assumed that this Labour is indicated . |
| 9 | An alternative approach is to measure share price changes ; prices at any given time reflect the market 's estimate of future performance and if it is assumed that this estimate is reliable then a comparison of ‘ before and after ’ figures should provide an accurate guide to the change in earning potential brought about by merger . |
| 10 | In the British Army , discipline was centred around self-discipline , and it was assumed that each man had enough self-discipline to carry out an order without being told twice . |
| 11 | In 1990 , it was assumed that each assistant would average twenty items a minute ( Cutter and Rowe 1990 ) . |
| 12 | It was assumed that all learning could be reduced to a series of conditioned reflexes . |
| 13 | It was assumed that any erosion terraces would show as modes in the frequency distribution . |