Example sentences of "[pron] [be] assume to be [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
2 | Note that this allowance is for independent monsters which are assumed to be magically bound , trained , or otherwise loyal to your cause . |
3 | Thus for each country one could use Lucas 's measure of unanticipated aggregate demand to estimate the following OLS regression based on equation(6.3) : where is a coefficient , and is a random error which is assumed to be serially uncorrelated with zero mean . |
4 | Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic . |
5 | But in the classroom , the roles are often reversed : the person who asks the questions is the one who is assumed to be more knowledgeable . |
6 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
7 | He was disappearing regularly into the bowels of the City to meet various moneypersons , all of whom were assumed to be faintly threatening male chauvinists . |
8 | Graph ( a ) shows the Keynesian speculative demand for money ( L s ) on the assumption that it is inversely related to the rate of interest between the interest rates Oi and Oi , 1 : above Oi 1 , the speculative demand is assumed to be zero and below Oi , it is assumed to be perfectly elastic . |
9 | Added to this was an acceptance of liberal Victorian culture to such a degree that it was assumed to be as eternal as the gospel itself . |
10 | I was worried about that and er I think that 's because it 's a German system and everyone is assumed to be over six feet anyway or six feet wide or something . |
11 | Everyone is assumed to be potentially capable of having sexual relations with a person of either sex , although there could be exceptions at either end of the spectrum , that is , there are some people who are constitutionally unable to be anything other than heterosexual , and some who are unable to be anything other than homosexual . |
12 | In other words , his argument might be seen as an attempt to confront the common sense with the disconcerting fact that references to what are assumed to be numerically identical spatio-temporal particulars inhabiting an objective world " out there " can not be given a satisfactory justification , and consequently that one can not claim with certainty that such particulars represent the basic material of which the world is made up . |